In the east of France, in the province of Bresse, there is a small plot of land covering only four thousand kilometers. Here are the only birds in the world who are allowed to carry the AOC “quality mark” since 1957. This is the sign on which the place of origin of the bird is written.
Beautiful birds of snow-white color with bright red scallops and blue legs for their taste became known from the chronicles of 1591.
The chronicle describes that during the attack of Savoys on the small provincial town of Bug-en-Bresse, the Burgundians helped defeat the enemy to local residents. And as a sign of gratitude to their liberators, the inhabitants of the city gave them chickens.
From reliable sources it is known that the French king Henry IV, after tasting this chicken for the first time, expressed the desire that every peasant on the table at least once a week had such a chicken.
However, his wish did not come true, and could not come true, because there were few such chickens, and they could not be enough for all. But even today this wonderful chicken from Bress is a delicacy, and any restaurant in France will be honored to receive it.
Description of Bress Gali
Chickens Bress Gali are one of the three breeds allowed for breeding in western Europe.
These chickens have four colors of color: white, black, blue and red. But the most common white and black colors of chickens.
Bress Gali chickens have distinct meat formstherefore refer to meat breeds. These chickens have snow-white plumage, bright red scallop and blue legs. Hens of Bresse - Gali - a national treasure of France. Color chickens has the colors of the national flag of France.
These chickens were brought to Russia quite recently. They are of great interest to Russian farmers. As a good meat breed, they are a kind of broiler substitute. However, the meat of bress is much more expensive than broiler. One kilogram of such a chicken costs about 100 euros.
By the nature of the hens are quite calm both at an early age, and adults, almost not afraid of a person.
Features
Bresse - Gali chickens are considered the most delicious in the world.
In France, the unofficial symbol is the Gali rooster, whose image is minted on coins. The French are very kind to the chickens of this breed and when growing strictly follow certain rules.
In reproducers contain breeding stock of chickens, there are only three in the whole area. There chickens are kept in incubators. When chickens grow up, farmers supply the young chickens during the season. After that, the farmers keep the chickens indoors for a whole month and only then release meat to the street.
Bresse capon (eunuch) is very valuable. Roosters are castrated, after which they no longer sing, do not trample chickens, but they eat a lot and get very fat.
They feed chickens with porridge, which contains ninety percent of wheat and corn grits, and ten percent are dairy products.
In the last two months before slaughter, chickens are transferred to a special diet, which includes rusks soaked in milk, maize, and a green salad is added there. Poularos and capons thirty days before the extermination are closed in a dark room and fattened there.
In this regard, the French believe that not all birds can be called Bress. After such feed, the meat of these chickens has the taste of milk, it is very tender and tasty.
Bressean Capon is popular in France also because for the sake of this bird the French arrange a whole chicken show, known all over the world. Such bride on the best carcass arrange the French between manufacturers since 1863.
Contests are held once a year, before the Christmas holidays. All Bresse farmers come to the outskirts of Burg to the competition venue..
Cock carcasses are laid on pads and tied with ribbons, corsets are removed from them beforehand. In corsets "decorate" cockerels in order to evenly distribute the fat under the skin of the carcass. Due to this, the carcass becomes gently - beige color, which is stamped on the chest.
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Such chickens still have a ring on the leg, which indicates the name of the farmer - producer, his address, the seal of the slaughterhouse, where she was slaughtered. Also there is a label where the settlement is indicated and there is a seal. If this is a fowl, then Poularde is written on it, and if it is capon, then Chapon is written.
The winner is the farmer who has four carcasses that meet sixteen commission requirements. For this, he is handed an expensive vase made of Seversky porcelain, which is a gift from the President of the country. The reciprocal gesture is to send the carcass of the best cock to Paris.
Photo Gallery
We present you a few photos of the French breed. In the first photo, young chickens are walking on green grass with a rooster:
Curious young looking for food in the bushes:
And this is how Bress Gali chickens look like:
Young chickens have accumulated together and look at the camera with great interest:
Cultivation and maintenance
In Russia, Bress Gali chickens are raised in farms.
Bress Gali chickens start very well. They eat well and eat a lot, so they are dramatically gaining weight. Their powerful legs and breasts speak for themselves.
As for feed, they are fed with wheat, corn, fodder, dairy products, and greens, etc. are added to cereal cereals. Chickens are especially well fed during the period of rapid growth starting from 2 weeks to 2.5 months.
At this time they are given more protein foods. This includes beets, carrots, boiled heart or boiled fish. But mostly these are mixed feeds. For different age - different feed. Naturally, vitamins are added.
The content of birds in the chicken coop must meet the requirements of this breed. In the cold season, the chicken coops should be heated to maintain a comfortable temperature for the birds.
For warming floors, straw is lined; instead of straw, you can fill the floor with chips or sawdust. Mixed with the droppings, you get a natural insulation that will save heating costs.
Great importance for chickens is compliance with the light mode.especially in winter. Lack of light is bad for egg-laying. Hens less rush. The meat of these chickens is very tasty, tender, elite, expensive.
To get such meat, you need to properly feed the chicken. The most important thing - the food must be balanced. For good egg production, a large role is played by a varied diet, a comfortable temperature for keeping birds and sustained light conditions.
Specifications
Laying hens start laying eggs somewhere around four months under good grooming conditions. For 30 days, such a hen blows about 28 eggs.
Eggs are not very large, weighing about 60 - 65 grams of ivory color of regular rounded shape. Each year, each of them brings from 180 to 220 eggs. This is a pretty good indicator.
Hatching, chicks grow very quickly. By the month they have fully plumage, their weight is 550 - 560 grams. In two months, this chicken weighs about 1.5 kilograms. And at four his weight exceeds 2.5 kg. The usual weight of such chickens at productive age exceeds 3.5 kg. And roosters grow up to 5 kilograms.
Analogs
By analogy Bress Gali hens can be attributed Dzhirsiyskikh giants. These chickens are considered the largest in the world. Chickens meat, very good noskosti. Chickens bring from 200 to 240 pieces per year. This meat breed. The four-month cockerels weigh from 2.0 to 2.6 kg. already gutted. A 6 - 7 monthly gutted cockerels weigh 3.8 - 4.0 kg.
Chickens begin to sweep from 6 months, rush together, well. Jirsian giants are rivals broiler and Bressky chickens. In Russia, this breed appeared not very long ago.
Where can I buy in Russia?
In Russia, the hens of the Bress-Gali breed are not that many, so it’s too early to talk about the industry, since they only recently appeared in the country.
Russian farmers are still increasing the capacity for breeding such a breed of chickens, forming nests. But Bresse - Galsky chickens are a very good meat breed of birds, therefore distribution in Russia will soon be ubiquitous.
On the Internet you can find many farmers who breed BressGalsky chickens. If desired, you can find and contacts and addresses of farmers. Here are some of those who put up for sale bresses.
You can buy such chickens:
- Moscow region, Stupinsky district, M4 Don highway 65 km.
Contacts: tel. +7 (925) 504-96-31 (by appointment). E-mail: [email protected]. Meat Chickens Bressy Gal. Imported breeding nests, pre-registration, price - 500 rubles. - Bird Village - nursery number 1 in Russia.
For questions please call: +7 (916) 795-66-55; +7 (905) 529-11-55. BressGalsky chickens (white), price - 2200 rubles. The mass of chickens is 2.5 kg., Roosters - 3.5 kg. Eggs 60 gr. Egg production is 170 - 190 pieces per year.
