Black Penedesenca
A variety of the Penedesenca
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
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About the Black Penedesenca
The Black (Negra) is the original and most numerous Penedesenca, with solid glossy black plumage, dark-horn beak and dark slate shanks and toes. Unlike the three lighter egg-laying varieties it was developed as a heavier dual-purpose bird. It shares the breed's lobed 'carnation' comb and lays the same exceptionally dark chocolate-brown eggs that rival the Marans.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Chocolate
- Eggs per year
- About 160
- Purpose
- Laying
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- Spain
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus