Breed name | Breed code | Group | Number of animals | Geographic area in France | Center of origin mean coordinates | Historical records | Plumage color |
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Poule d’Alsace | ALS | 1 | 30 | North East | 48.57 N; 7.75 E | Nineteenth century | Black |
Barbezieux | BAR | 1 | 59 | South-West | 45.47 N; − 0.15 W | Nineteenth century | Black |
Bourbonnaise | BOU | 1 | 57 | Centre | 46.57Â N; 3.34 E | n.a | Silver |
Bresse Gauloise Blanche B11 | B11 | 1 | 60 | Centre-East | 46.21Â N; 5.23 E | Ancestral Bresse (sixteenth century) | White |
Bresse Gauloise Blanche B22 | B22 | 1 | 60 | Centre-East | 46.21Â N; 5.23 E | Created in 2000 from B11 | White |
Bresse Gauloise Blanche B55 | B55 | 1 | 43 | Centre-East | 46.21Â N; 5.23 E | 1950 (egg production) | White |
Charollaise | CHA | 1 | 56 | Centre-East | 46.44Â N; 4.28 E | 1950 (meat) | White |
Contres | CON | 2 | 41 | Centre | 47.42Â N; 1.43 E | Twentieth century | Silver |
Cou nu du Forez | CNF | 1 | 59 | Centre-East | 45.74Â N; 4.23 E | n.a | White |
Coucou de Rennes | CDR | 1 | 55 | West | 48.11 N; − 1.68 W | Nineteenth century | Sex-linked barring |
Gasconne | GAS | 1 | 60 | South-West | 43.43Â N; 0.58 E | Nineteenth century | Black |
Gâtinaise | GAT | 1 | 57 | South of Paris | 48.15 N; 2.70 E | Fifth century | White |
Gauloise Grise | GG | 1 | 60 | Centre-East | 46.21Â N; 5.23 E | Sixteenth century | Autosomal barring |
Gauloise noire | GN | 1 | 58 | Centre-East | 46.63Â N; 5.22 E | Sixteenth century, currently bred for egg production | Black |
Geline de Touraine | GDT | 1 | 59 | Centre-West | 47.13Â N; 1.00 E | Fifteenth century | Black |
Gournay | GOU | 1 | 58 | West | 49.48Â N; 1.72 E | Nineteenth century | Mottled |
Grise du Vercors | GDV | 1 | 44 | South-East | 45.02Â N; 5.29 E | Created in 2002 from a cross | Sex-linked barring |
Houdan | HOU | 1 | 58 | West of Paris | 48.79Â N; 1.60 E | Seventeenth century | Mottled |
Hergnies | HER | 2 | 60 | North | 50.48Â N; 3.52 E | Recent reconstitution | Autosomal barring |
Le Mans | MAN | 2 | 29 | Centre-West | 48.01Â N; 0.20 E | Recent reconstitution | Black |
Marans managed | MAG | 1 | 52 | Centre-West | 47.62 N; − 1.19 W | Commercial breeding for eggs | Brown red, red, silver cuckoo, |
Marans fancy | MAR | 2 | 65 | Centre-West | 46.3 N; − 1.0 W | Fancy breeders, first described in fifteenth century | Black, Brown red, red, silver cuckoo, white, wheaten, wild-type, |
Merlerault | MER | 1 | 38 | West | 48.7Â N; 0.29 E | Nineteenth century | Black |
Noire du Berry | NDB | 1 | 56 | Centre | 46.95Â N; 1.99 E | Nineteenth century | Black |