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Colour Cock Hen Notes Black Laced not used; black-laced plumage is named after the red series colour instead: "golden laced" for black and red, "citron laced" for black and buff, "silver laced" for black and white Blue Laced Blue Laced Red Buff Laced also known as Chamois [3]: 447 Golden Laced Sebright Silver Laced
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Illustration of thirty-nine varieties of chicken (and one Guinea Fowl) . There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence. [1] Domesticated for thousands of years, distinguishable breeds of chicken have been present since the combined factors of geographical isolation and selection for desired characteristics created regional types with distinct physical and behavioral traits passed on to ...
[7]: 216 [8]: 192 [10]: 97 Color was not a criterion for selection, and the resulting birds were of a somewhat lighter red than the original Rhode Island stock. [ 10 ] : 97 The New Hampshire Red was admitted to the American Standard of Perfection in 1935; the bantam was added in 1960.
A six-month-old pullet Head of a hen. The Dominique is of medium size, mature birds usually weighing some 5–7 lb (2.3–3.2 kg). The only recognized plumage coloration is cuckoo, sometimes known as "hawk" coloration, a regular pattern of light and dark – but not black and white – barring.
The "lavender" gene (lav) in the chicken causes the dilution of both black (eumelanin) and red/brown (phaeomelanin) pigments, so according to color background, dilution due to "lavender" gives a sort of plumage color patterns: On an extended black background, this condition causes the entire surface of the body an even shade of light slaty blue, which is the typical phenotype known as '"self ...
Kadaknath birds are grey-black all over and have gold plumage with greenish iridescence.The greyish black colour is present in the legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs have black colouration.
The Orpington is a British breed of chicken.It was bred in the late nineteenth century by William Cook of Orpington, at that time in Kent in south-east England. [5]: 115 It was intended to be a dual-purpose breed, to be reared both for eggs and for meat, but soon became exclusively a show bird.