Black Crèvecœur
A variety of the Crèvecœur
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Black Crèvecœur
Black is the original and standard colour of the Crèvecœur — the only variety recognised in the UK and US — a solid, beetle-green-sheened black across body, full crest and beard, set off by a bright red V-comb, face and wattles over slate-blue to black legs. This is the classic form of this endangered French crested table breed, laying white eggs and kept today mainly for exhibition.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 150
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus