Barbu d'Everberg

Barbu d'Everberg
A cock bird
Conservation status
Other names
  • Dutch: Everbergse Baardkriel[4]
  • Rumpless d’Uccle[5]: 75 
Country of originBelgium
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    700–800 g[2]: 57 
  • Female:
    550–650 g[2]: 57 
Classification
PCGBtrue bantam[5]: 75 

The Barbu d'Everberg, Dutch: Everbergse Baardkriel, is a Belgian breed of bantam chicken. It is a tailless variant of the Barbu d'Uccle, and was bred in about 1906 at the Château d'Everberg, at Everberg in the municipality of Kortenberg, between Brussels and Leuven (Louvain).[2] It is among the most endangered chicken breeds in Belgium,[2]: 52  and in 2010 its conservation status was classed as "critical". It is a true bantam, with no large counterpart. Cocks weigh 700–800 g, and hens 550–650 g.[2]: 57 

The Barbu d'Everberg is listed as a breed by the Entente Européenne.[4] In Britain and in the Netherlands it is considered a variant of the Barbu d'Uccle rather than a separate breed.[5]: 75 [6]

References

  1. ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f N. Moula, M. Jacquet, A. Verelst, N. Antoine-Moussiaux, F. Farnir, P. Leroy (2012). Les races de poules belges (in French). Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire 156: 37-65. Accessed August 2014.
  3. ^ Breed data sheet: Everbergse baardkriel / Belgium (Chicken). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2025.
  4. ^ a b Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b c Victoria Roberts (2008). British poultry standards: complete specifications and judging points of all standardized breeds and varieties of poultry as compiled by the specialist breed clubs and recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405156424.
  6. ^ Everbergse baardkriel (in Dutch). Zeldzame Oorspronkelijke Belgische Krielhoenderrassen. Accessed August 2014.