Malgache (Cou Nu de Madagascar)
Naked necked malayoide Gamefowl

Type: Malayoide

Attitude: Upright high status: Rooster: 65 to 75 cm, Hen: about 55 cm

Plumage: hard, scarce and concise

Skin: Like leather, intensive red, sometimes black pigmented

Tie: More or less large, at front of the neck (tuft)

Head: long-to medium-size

Beak: medium, short and bent

Wattles: Small, bended, long baseline

Eye colour: Light to red

Front eyebrows: Always bar of feathers

Comb: Small pea or walnut comb (or strawberry comb)

Behaviour: Tame and harmless to people, hens and youngsters,
evil to other foreign cocks, resistance in the tropical wilderness

Broodies: Very good clutches, doing well in raising in
tropical wilderness, with adopt character

Egg Production: 20 to 55 eggs per year, weights: 45 to 65 g

Egg colours: creamy to brown yellow, thick shell

Plumage colours: wheaten, black, partridge, dark, cuckoo, red, white

Bare plumage areas: 1st half of head front, neck, crop, flanks, elbows, side back areas,
laying belly, inside of the thighs. wing bottom naked, Feather free "floors".

Plumage areas: The remaining skin zones are scarcely feathered

Meat taste: Very good, solid consistency

Taste of the eggs: Excellent!

Sources:
Dr. Carlos Finsterbusch "Cockfighting all over the World" (1928)
Expert breeder Monsieur Louis Gerard Faure, Antananarivo / Madagascar (1981)
La Revue Avicole, pages 449-450, Alex Wiltzer "Le Cou Nu de Madagascar"(before 1980)
Geflügel-Börse 8/1990, Werner Lamkemeyer

Links:
MALGACHE

Author: Werner Lamkemeyer

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