Paduan Chicken

This very distinctive chicken breed has a long beard, fleshy red nostrils framing its beak, side whiskers and a tuft of long, pointed feathers sprouting from the top of the head and cascading down over the eyes. Squinting through the feathers, its field of vision is quite limited, which explains its hesitant gait. The plumage can be black, white, gold, tan or silver. In the early 20th century there were still several thousand of the chickens left, but by the 1960s they had almost completely disappeared. The breed was preserved in Italy by the Duca degli Abruzzi Institute in Padua, and thanks to the commitment of a teacher, Gabriele Baldan, who has brought together some small breeders

Season

Paduan hen is available year-round