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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
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 ...
A Black Java hen; the Java played a role in the creation of some of the American class breeds, such as the Rhode Island Red. The American Class contains thirteen breeds which originated in Canada or the United States. [1]: 11 All are heavy breeds, and most lay brown eggs; [1]: 11 most are cold-hardy: [2] Buckeye; Chantecler; Delaware; Dominique ...
White-faced Black Spanish; Wyandotte chicken; Y. Yakido; Yokohama chicken This page was last edited on 23 April 2020, at 19:28 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
[2]: 289 The light Sussex has a white body with a black tail and black in the flight feathers and wing coverts; the neck hackles are white with black striping. The buff has the same markings, but with greenish-black on a golden-buff ground. The silver is similar to the light, but has grey thighs and a dark breast with silver lacing.
The Dominique is an American breed of chicken, characterized by black-and-white barred plumage and a rose comb. It is considered to be the oldest American chicken breed, [8]: 121 and is thought to derive from birds brought to America by colonists from southern England. It was well known by about 1750, and by the mid-nineteenth century was ...
This is a list of chicken breeds usually considered to originate in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively from those countries.
Dominant white was one of the first traits in aviculture which proved to be inherited according to the Mendelian laws, when in 1902 Bateson [4] found that the cross of White Leghorns x Indian Games (or its reciprocal) gives F1 chicks with a white or a black spotted ashy white down.