Chickens

Breed: (Origin)

• Description

Adler Silvers (Russia)

• ??; Use: Eggs, Meat

Altsteirer (Austria)

• Brownish black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Ameraucana (USA)

• Black, or blue, or blue wheaten, or brown-red, or buff, or silver, or wheaten, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Ancona (Italy)

• Mottled, with black or white tips; Use: Eggs

Antwerp Bearded Bantam (Belgium)

• Various; Use: Exhibition

Appenzeller Spitzhauben (Switzerland)

• Black, or gold or silver spangled; Use: Specialty

Araucana (South America)

• Black, or black-red, or golden, or reddish, or silver, or white; Use: Blue eggs

Aseel (Indian)

• Black-breasted, or dark spangled, or wheat; Use: Eggs, Meat

Asil: See -- Aseel

Augsberger (Germany)

• Black; Use: ??

Australian Pit Game Fowl (Australia)

• ??; Use: Breeding

Australorp (Australia)

• Black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Barnvelder (Holland)

• Black, or blue-laced, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Bergische Kraher (Germany)

• ??; Use: Specialty

Bielefelder Kennhuhner (Germany)

• ??; Use: Eggs, Meat

Black Sumatra (Indonesia)

• Black; Use: Eggs, Showing

Blue Andalusian (Spain)

• Bluish; Use: Eggs

Brahma (China)

• Buff, or red and black, or silver-pencilled; Use: Eggs, Meat

Brakel (Belgium)

• White, or mottled; Use: Eggs

Buckeye (USA)

• Like buckeye nut; Use: Eggs, Meat

Buff Catalana (Spain)

• Reddish buff with greenish black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Campine (Belgium)

• Golden, or silver; Use: Eggs, Exhibition

Chabo Bantam (Japan)

• Black, or grey, or mottled, or white; Use: ??

Chantecler (Canada)

• Partridge, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Cochin (China)

• Black, or blue, or brown, or buff, or golden, or partridge, or silver-laced, or white; Use: Exhibition, Meat

Cornish (United Kingdom)

• Black, or buff, or green, or dark red, or white; Use: Meat

Crevecoeur (France)

• Black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Cubalaya (Cuba)

• Black, or black-breasted red, or white; Use: Meat

Danish Land Hen (Denmark)

• Brownish black; Use: Eggs

Delaware (USA)

• Black and white with barring, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Dominique (USA)

• Black and white striping, or grey, or hawk-coloured; Use: Eggs, Meat

Dorking (Italy)

• Silver-grey, or straw and black, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Dresdener (Germany)

• Black, or golden brown, or rusty, or white; Use: Eggs

Dutch Booted Bantam (Netherlands)

• Various; Use: ??

Dutch Owl Beard (Netherlands)

• Black, or blue-laced cuckoo, or buff, or pencil, or speckled, or white; Use: ??

Favorolle (France)

• Reddish brown with black, or salmon brown with cream; Use: Eggs, Meat

Frisian (Netherlands)

• Cuckoo, or mottled, or pencil, or white; Use: ??

Frizzle (India ?)

• Buff, or red, or white; Use: Eggs, Exhibition

Guinea (Africa)

• Various; Use: Meat

Hamburg (Netherlands)

• Black, or golden, or silver-pencilled, or spangled, or white; Use: Eggs, Ornamental

Houdan (France)

• Mottled, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Holland (Netherlands)

• Black and white, or light grey, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Huiyuang Bearded (China)

• Golden brown, or reddish yellow; Use: Meat

Jaer Fowl (Norway)

• ??; Use: Eggs

Java (Indonesia)

• Black, or mottled; Use: Eggs, Meat

Jersey Giant (USA)

• Black, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Jingyuan (China)

• Black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Kraaikoppen (Netherlands)

• Black, or blue lace, or cuckoo, or white; Use: ??

Krupers (Germany)

• Black, or cuckoo, or partridge, or white; Use: ??

La Fleche (France)

• Black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Lakenvelder (Germany)

• Black, or white; Use: Eggs

Lamona (USA)

• White; Use: Eggs, Meat

Langshan (China)

• Barred, or black, or blue, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Leghorn (Italy)

• Black, or brown, or buff, or columbian, or golden, or red, or silver, or white; Use: Eggs

Leon (Spain)

• Indio, or pardio; Use: Eggs, feathers

Lindian (China)

• Black, or yellow; Use: Eggs, Meat

Magyar Chicken (Hungary)

• Cuckoo, or light brown, or white; Use: Eggs

Malay (Malaysia)

• Black, or red, or white; Use: Exhibition

Mechelner (Belgium)

• Dark brown; Use: Eggs, Exhibition, Meat

Minorca (Mediterranean)

• Black, or buff, or white; Use: Eggs

Modern Game (??)

• Various; Use: Fighting, Showing

Musician Fowl (Brazil)

• Dark brown with blue and white; Use: Long crowing

Naked Neck (Hungary)

• Black, or buff, or red, or white; Use: Eggs

Netherlands Krulbaardkuifhoen (Netherlands)

• ??; Use: Specialty

New Hampshire (USA)

• Medium chestnut, or red, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

New Yangzhou (China)

• Black, or dark red; Use: Eggs, Meat

Old Dutch Bantam (Netherlands)

• Various; Use: Exhibition

Old English Game (United Kingdom)

• Various; Use: Fighting, Showing

Orloff (Russia)

• ??; Use: Eggs, Meat

Orpington (United Kingdom)

• Black, or blue, or buff, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Ostriesische Mowen (Germany)

• Gold, or silver; Use: Eggs

Phoenix (Japan)

• Golden, or silver; Use: Exhibition

Plymouth Rock (USA)

• Brown, or hawk-coloured, or white with patterns; Use: Eggs, Meat

Polish (Poland)

• Buff, or golden, or silver, or whitecrested black; Use: Ormanental

Poltava Clay Coloured (Ukraine)

• Clay; Use: Eggs

Putong (China)

• Yellowish with red and black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Queen Sylvia (Sweden)

• Golden, or silver; Use: Eggs

Redcap (United Kingdom)

• Black and dark red, or blue, or brown; Use: Egggs, Meat

Rheinlander (Germany)

• ??; Use: Eggs. Meat

Rhode Island Red (USA)

• Dark red; Use: Eggs, Meat

Rhode Island White (USA)

• White; Use: Eggs, Meat

Rumpless Fowl (Iran)

• Various; Use: Eggs

Scots Dumpy (Scotland)

• Black, or cuckoo, or white; Use: Exhibition

Shamo (Japan)

• Black, or dark Cornish, or red, or wheat; Use: Meat

Shumen Black (Bulgaria)

• Black; Use: Eggs, Meat

Sicilian Buttercup (Sicily)

• Golden, or reddish orange; Use: Eggs

Silky (China)

• Various; Use: ??

Stara Zagora Red (Bulgaria)

• Dark red; Use: Eggs

Sultan (Southeast Europe)

• White; Use: Eggs, Exhibition

Sussex (United Kingdom)

• Brown, or mahogany with black and white, or red; Use: Eggs, Meat

Thuringer Barthuhner (Germany)

• Various; Use: Eggs

Tosa Onagadori (Japan)

• ??; Use: Exhibtion

Transylvania Naked Neck (Romania)

• Black, or buff, or red, or white; Use: Eggs

Twente Grey (Netherlands)

• ??; Use: Exhibition, Eggs

Vorworkhuhner (Germany)

• Buff lakenvelder; Use: Eggs, Meat

Welsumer (Netherlands)

• ??; Use: Eggs

Westfalische Totleger (Germany)

• Golden, or silver; Use: Eggs

White Faced Black Spanish (Spain)

• Black; Use: Exhibition, Eggs

Wuding (China)

• Brownish red; Use: Eggs

Wyandotte (USA)

• Black, or buff, or silver with gold laced, or white; Use: Eggs, Meat

Yokohama (Japan)

• Red, or white; Use: Exhibition

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