Tuzo (chicken)

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Tuzo
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): endangered [1] : 53 
  • DAD-IS (2025): at risk/endangered [2]      
Country of origin
  • Japan
  • Germany
  • Europe
  • United States
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    1.3–1.5 kg [3] : 93 
  • Female:
    1–1.2 kg [3] : 93 
Egg colourwhite or light brown
Classification
APA not recognised [4] : 8 
EE yes [5]
PCGB Asian hard feather, true bantam [6] : 302  [7]

The Tuzo is a German breed of true bantam chicken of gamecock type. It derives from birds of Asian origin and was developed partly in Europe and partly in the United States.

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History

The Tuzo derives from birds of Asian origin. It may have been a Japanese breed or type: a detailed description is given in an account of cock-fighting in Japan written in 1929; [8] : 216  [9] : 443  it is not a recognised breed in modern Japan. Later breeding took place partly in Europe and partly in the United States. [10] : 318  [3] : 93  The breed was recognised in Germany in 1983, and in the twenty-first century is recognised also by the Entente Européenne and by the Poultry Club of Great Britain – which classifies it as an Asian hard feather breed – but not by the American Poultry Association. [6] : 302  [5] [7] [4]

Characteristics

The Entente Européenne recognises five colour variants – black, black mottled, blue, wheaten and white – and also lists the black-red. The Poultry Club of Great Britain recognises three colours: black, blue and white. [10] : 319 

Use

The Tuzo was bred for cock-fighting. [3] : 93  Standards are published for birds intended for showing. Hens lay about 80 white or light brown eggs per year, with an average weight of about 35 g. [3] : 93  [10] : 318 

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. ↑ Breed data sheet: Tuzo / Germany (Chicken). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Rassetafeln: Hühner (in German). Reichenbach, Haselbachtal: Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzüchter. Archived 1 December 2024.
  4. 1 2 APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
  5. 1 2 Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
  6. 1 2 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, sixth edition. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN   9781405156424.
  7. 1 2 Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Joseph Batty (2003). Breeds of Poultry & Their Characteristics. Midhurst, West Sussex: Northbrook Publishing. ISBN   9781857364347.
  9. ↑ C.A. Finsterbusch (1929). Cock Fighting All Over the World. Gaffney, South Carolina: Grit and Steel.
  10. 1 2 3 J. Ian H. Allonby, Philippe B. Wilson (editors) (2018). 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, seventh edition. Chichester; Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN   9781119509141.
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