11/14/2026
The new kids on the block.
🦉Dutch Owlbeards
The Dutch Owlbeard (known natively as the Uilebaard) is one of the oldest and rarest chicken breeds from the Netherlands, with history dating back to the 1500s
Early 1900s Rescue: Following its formation in 1900, the Nederlandse Hoenderclub (Dutch Poultry Club) prioritized saving native breeds. Breeders tracked down the few surviving Owlbeards and carefully crossed them with complementary breeds—including La Flèche, Kraaikop, and Thuringian bearded fowl—to restore genetic vigor and stabilize the population by roughly 1910.
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These remind me of what a Mosaic / La Fleche cross would look like. Interesting to see they are historically related.
