About Ambresse.com

About Ambresse.com the website: This website is an informational site about American Bresse Chickens, and is produced by Ambresse Acres, a small poultry homestead raising American Bresse Chickens exclusively.

Ambresse.com is about American Bresse Chickens

Ambresse.com is an informational website about American Bresse Chickens that went live in mid-2021. 

The new-to-North America chicken breed, American Bresse, is a very exciting and promising one. It brings to the poultry world in a single breed the very best of both egg-layers and meat birds. Especially meat birds. American Bresse chickens, properly finished, have been described by chefs and royalty alike as the most delicious chicken on the planet. 

The Bresse breed is an ancient one in France. Details of this history are here. Upon its arrival in North America, the Bresse chicken breed was given a different working name: American Bresse.

About Ambresse.com's Mission

The American Bresse breed of chickens is new to the North American continent. For that reason, the mission of this website is four-fold:

1. To educate the public about American Bresse Chickens and their value and usefulness to homemakers, to self-reliant homesteads, and to restaurants of all types. 
   
   
2. To support breeders in their day-to-day operations and decisions with regard to breeding stock choices, basic animal husbandry, and info about equipment, supplies, and housing. Ambresse.com will draw on the contributions and wisdom of reputable and practiced breeders to help accomplish this. 
   
   
3. To enable breeders to market their birds and products through enhanced visibility on the world wide web. To this end we have created an American Bresse Chicken Breeders listing page, as well as an American Bresse Chickens For Sale classified ads page. Additional pages and enhancements for the use of breeders will be forthcoming in time. 
   
   
4. To participate in the support of the American Bresse Breed Club serving the United States and Canada, and to support the growing functions of this breed club as it matures into a force for good in the world of American Bresse chickens and breeders. For right now, the Ambresse website is hosting the breed club web pages until the club becomes functional.
   
   

The Current State of the Ambresse.com Website

About Ambresse.com online: Despite being online for several years, it will no doubt take more years to flesh out the website with all the information, photos, and services that are envisioned for this website.

In shaping this Ambresse website, I don't consider myself to be anything more than an aggregator of pertinent information about the American Bresse breed in particular, and therefore also about chicken tending in general as needed. I do draw on personal experience, but many breeders of ABCs are true wells of wisdom and knowledge. Multiple voices are essential to the healthy growth of the breed.

Guest Post Opportunities:
Ambresse.com welcomes guest authors who desire to contribute informational posts on this website, for example, guidance and tips from experienced American Bresse breeders, or recipes and cooking tips from chefs familiar with serving American Bresse entrees.

Full attribution, bylines, and links are always given. Feel free to submit article ideas or questions via the contact form.

About Karen Patry, Owner/Author of Ambresse.com

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Karen Patry (that's me) is the owner, author, and webmaster of the Ambresse.com website, and the main chicken keeper at the Ambresse Acres Poultry Homestead.  Consider me your partner, through this website, in helping breeders to get the news about American Bresse Chickens out to the world in general.

I am a writer with a passion for agriculture, specifically poultry but also rabbits.

My rabbit website, Raising-Rabbits.com, went live in 2009 and boasts up to 2,000 pages of info, tips, guidance, and personal stories from many rabbit raisers. In order to answer the multitude of questions sent to the website from the public, I collected the questions and answers in Rabbit Raising Problem Solver, published by Storey Publications. 

As a fun side gig, I created a travel website featuring my hometown and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State where I live: MyPortAngeles.com. (This website is full of beautiful photography, another mini-passion of mine!)

You are reading this American-Bresse-focused website because I discovered American Bresse chickens in 2020, and immediately obtained 40 chicks. This breed is so very wonderfully utilitarian! I LOVE getting copious eggs and incredibly flavorful meat from heritage birds that can be sustainably raised year after year.

In Case You Wondered Why the Website Was Named Ambresse.com...

Why did I call the website Ambresse when the breed is American Bresse??

Because of online rules mostly. The rules for the world wide web strongly favor short domain names:

1. A short domain name is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) advantage. Domain names under ten (10) characters are given ranking favor by the search engines. 'Ambresse' - eight letters, short, easy, concise, logical.
   
   
2. A short domain name is also very easy to use and reference on a day-by-day basis. Short domain names fit beautifully on business cards. One doesn't have to type out an overly long domain name every time one needs to share a link or send an email. (Been there, done that; didn't want to do it again.)

The process of finding the perfect domain name has to start somewhere. I wanted the website to be almost exclusively about American Bresse Chickens. So, 'americanbressechickens.com'...? Nope. Not available, and in any case was way too long to use. The domain 'americanbresse.com' was also not available, and hyphenating the two words was less than ideal.

My only option then was to create a contraction. 'Am' for American, married to 'bresse' for the breed! It was an easy choice requiring minimal explanation online. "Ambresse" is also easy for English speakers to say. I still combed my way through dozens of other possibilities over a process of weeks before settling on the obvious.

The footer of each page of the website explains that the contracted term ambresse is not a term intended to replace the actual breed name, which is American Bresse.

But I personally liked the term well enough to name my little homestead Ambresse Acres, especially because American Bresse chickens are the only livestock animal we raise. Follow the link for more info about the Ambresse Acres homestead.

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