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The Ameraucana is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was developed in the United States in the 1970s, and derives from Araucana chickens brought from Chile. It was bred to retain the blue-egg gene but eliminate the lethal alleles of the parent breed. There are both standard-sized and bantam versions. [2]
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 ...
Barred cock and hen, illustration from Jean Bungartz, Geflügel-Album, 1885 Egg. The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken.It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century and for much of the early twentieth century was the most widely kept chicken breed in the United States.
Eggs from an Olive egger compared to a brown ISA Warren egg. In American usage, an Easter egger or Easter-egger is any hybrid or mixed-breed chicken resulting from the breeding of a bird carrying the blue egg (oocyan) gene with one that lays brown eggs.
Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery. In Ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were rather prestigious food for symposia. [6] Delos seems to have been a center of chicken breeding. "About 3200 BC chickens were common in Sindh. After the attacks of the Aria people, these fowls spread from Sindh to ...
A hen displaying the "dominant white" plumage color genotype. In poultry standards, solid white is coloration of plumage in chickens ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) characterized by a uniform pure white color across all feathers , which is not generally associated with depigmentation in any other part of the body.
Dwarfism in chickens is an inherited condition found in chickens consisting of a significant delayed growth, resulting in adult individuals with a distinctive small size in comparison with normal specimens of the same breed or population. The affected birds show no signs of dwarfism in the first weeks of age. [1]
A hen. The Delaware is an American breed of chicken with an unusual plumage pattern. It was developed in the state of Delaware in the mid-twentieth century, and was initially known as the Indian River. It was briefly of some importance in the American chicken industry, until it was superseded by the common industrial Cornish Rock cross.