Utrerana
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Country of originSpain
DistributionAndalusia
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| Conservation status | |
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Distribution | Andalusia |
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| Comb type | single |
| Classification | |
| APA | no[4] |
| EE | listed, not recognised[5] |
| PCGB | no[6] |
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The Utrerana is a Spanish breed of domestic chicken. It originates in – and is named for – the town of Utrera in the Province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia in south-western Spain.
The Utrerana was bred from about 1926 by Joaquín del Castillo on his estate, the Granja Santa Matilde, near Utrera in Andalusia. He selectively bred the various rustic local chickens, initially with the single aim of improving their egg-laying capacity. From about 1930 he started to breed also for morphological characteristics, and began to establish three colour strains: the black, the barred and the white.[3]: 683 A fourth colour variant, the partridge, was later developed.[3]: 683
