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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 ...
The early history of the Araucana is not documented. The birds were commonly seen in South America in the early twentieth century. [5]: 16 The Spanish aviculturist Salvador Castelló, who visited Chile in 1914, saw them and named them "Gallina Araucana", as many were found among the Mapuche people of the Araucanía region of Chile, whom the Spanish called Araucanos.
Silver-laced chick, three days old Gold-laced hen. The Wyandotte is a fairly large bird, with weights for adult birds in the range 2.7 to 4 kg (6 to 9 lb). [1] The body is of medium length, broad in the back and with a deep, full and well-rounded breast. [7] It is clean-legged and fairly close-feathered, and has a broad skull with a rose comb.
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.
This is a list of horse breeds usually considered to originate or have developed in Canada and the United States. Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively from those countries.
Here are some of the best photos and video from the first Saturday in May. On display was a Kentucky tradition, reflecting the grand spectacle the Kentucky Derby has become since it was first ran ...
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.