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  2. List of chicken colours - Wikipedia

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    Breeders and fanciers of chickens accurately describe the colours and patterns [1] of the feathers of chicken breeds and varieties. This is a list of the terms used in this context. This is a list of the terms used in this context.

  3. Solid white (chicken plumage) - Wikipedia

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    Inheritance of chicken plumage color is complex. It depends on several genetic factors which interact epistatically. Genetic symbology for most color plumage mutations can be found in Hutt's classical book of poultry genetics published in 1949, [2] in Abbott and Yee's Handbook published in 1975 [22] and in Some's alphabetical list of genes ...

  4. Delayed feathering in chickens - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. Feathering types in ten-day-old chicks.Left: Fast normal-feathering chick. Right: Delayed-feathering chick carrying sex-linked K gene. Delayed-feathering in chickens is a genetically determined delay in the first weeks of feather growing, which occurs normally among the chicks of many chicken breeds and no longer manifests itself once the chicken completes adult plumage.

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    Depending on gender, chicks are fed different amounts to optimize their size. Egg producers prize female layer chickens, and many kill the males. The new headquarters of Targan on Six Forks Roads ...

  6. Solid black (chicken plumage) - Wikipedia

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    Solid black plumage color refers to a plumage pattern in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) characterized by a uniform, black color across all feathers. There are chicken breeds where the typical plumage color is black, such as Australorp , Sumatra , White-Faced Black Spanish , Jersey Giant and others.

  7. Sussex chicken - Wikipedia

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    The Sussex chicken is graceful with a long, broad, flat back; a long and straight breastbone; wide shoulders; and a rectangular build. The tail is held at a 45-degree angle from the body. The eyes are red in the darker varieties but orange in the lighter ones. The comb is single. The earlobes are red and the legs and skin white in every variety.

  8. Lavender (chicken plumage) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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