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| Some animals of the old stock held by Bruno Rossetto. Photo by Andrea Mangoni. |
few years ago - it was 2007 - I was a senior producer, historical memory Poultry Trade Padua:
Bruno Rossetto . Mr. Rossetto had collected for years, strains and breeds all sorts of poultry, accumulating experience - and exemplary - indeed of all kinds. In addition to allevatoe played for over 50 years an ancient strain of hen Polverara, he had farmed chickens provenineti specimens from all over the world, and especially of the goodies that only he seemed to possess, or almost. Thus, in addition to and Polverara tidal crossings, on the farm also had a remarkable strain of the Euganean white turkeys, turkey and another strain of blue-lilac he had selected over the years. Among chickens, however, a particular look was aimed at a fairly unique strain that had received from Emilia Romagna and he called simply "
Emiliane . It was
animals with intermediate characteristics between the Mediterranean-type chickens and Indian fighters (Cornish): animal size so low but good weight, with full breasts and round, excellent meat producers, single comb, white earlobes heavily veined with red, cream or egg white just rosy. The colors were never fixed, but the shape and size risultavnoa rather stable together with the vaunted goodness and abundance of their meat, made it very tempting the idea of \u200b\u200bdealing with a similar strain of poultry.
I did research online and literature of various kinds, but without success: farmer apparently had no information about these animals, and did not seem to be no historical evidence whatsoever. You could probably only handle a relatively recent formation of a local strain, perhaps even too common locally. I was lucky enough to relieve some of them, but later when the project diel recovery of the breed
Boffa, gave it away along with many other races hosted by me focused primarily on selection of Barbie Padua. Unfortunately, all copies sold by me - except for one chick - ended up murdered in the house of a neighbor dall'incursione some hunting dogs. I left and then lose the idea of \u200b\u200bselecting the block, also because in the meantime Mr. Rossetto had almost ceased farming operations, and devoted myself to Boffa and
Polverara (also reached me from the house of Bruno).
Recently, however, some poultry farmers have noticed very similar to these "Collezione" offered for sale during the event NostrAvicoli "dell'AERAV in Reggio Emilia. Some of these fans have expressed an interest against this strain, as well as a willingness to try to start his own selection to obtain the achievement of uniformity that we can draw up a breed standard. E 'and then began the search for specimens in the area, with great difficulty due to the lack of any references. E 'per hour was possible to trace a cattleman who had received the items by Mr. Lipstick, but that has only daughters and does not intend to sell them, so you ceercano other samples and other actors to create the project.
This blog is therefore to provide farmers who wish to collaborate in this endeavor is a virtual meeting point and a bulletin board where post any progress made toward the identification of specimens, to farmers and information regarding the poultry. For more information, or if you want to collaborate in any way to "Project Collezione", you can contact the following email address:
info@oryctes.com .
you soon!
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| A brood of chicks "Emiliana". Photo by Andrea Mangoni. |
