Ramelsloher
Sign in to savethumb|alt=Yellowed engraving of a white cock and hen|Cock and hen, illustration by Hugo Spindler from Bruno Dürigen, Die Geflugelzucht, nach ihrem jetzigen rationellen Standpunkt, 1886 The Ramelsloher () is a German breed of dual-purpose chicken. It was bred in the 1870s by A.D. Wichmann, a Hamburg shipowner, and is named for the village of Ramelsloh, which lies some thirty kilometres south of Hamburg. In the early twentieth century it was an important utility chicken; in the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed. It is recognised in only two colours, white and buff; there is no banta
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thumb|alt=Yellowed engraving of a white cock and hen|Cock and hen, illustration by Hugo Spindler from Bruno Dürigen, Die Geflugelzucht, nach ihrem jetzigen rationellen Standpunkt, 1886 The Ramelsloher () is a German breed of dual-purpose chicken. It was bred in the 1870s by A.D. Wichmann, a Hamburg shipowner, and is named for the village of Ramelsloh, which lies some thirty kilometres south of Hamburg. In the early twentieth century it was an important utility chicken; in the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed. It is recognised in only two colours, white and buff; there is no bantam Ramelsloher.
== History ==
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