La Flèche chicken
Hen at the Écomusée du pays de Rennes | |
| Conservation status | FAO (2007): no data |
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| Other names | French: Poule de La Flèche |
| Standard | France (in French) |
| Use | dual-purpose |
| Traits | |
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| Skin colour | white |
| Comb type | two vertical spikes |
| Classification | |
| APA | continental |
| ABA | clean legged |
| PCGB | rare soft feather: heavy |
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The La Flèche, French: Poule de La Flèche, is a rare French breed of dual-purpose domestic chicken. It originates from the département of the Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region, and is named for the town and commune of La Flèche in that area, not far from the capital of the Sarthe, Le Mans. The breed was once famous for the fine quality of its meat; since the Second World War, numbers have fallen very low.