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  2. Hen feathering - Wikipedia

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    Hen feathering in cocks is the occurrence of a genetically conditioned character in domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus). Males with this condition develop a female-type plumage, although otherwise look and respond as virile males.

  3. List of poultry feathers - Wikipedia

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    The soft feathers on the underside of the bird Lesser sickles Long curved feathers of the tail, below the sickles only in cock birds Main tail feathers The long straight feathers forming the tail, under the tail coverts Muff Feathers projecting below and around the eyes only in bearded breeds Neck hackles The long feathers of the neck

  4. 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.

  5. Fletching - Wikipedia

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    In English archery, the male feather, from a cock, is used on the outside of the arrow, while the other two stabilizing feathers are from a female, or hen. Traditional archery lore about feather curvature is that a right handed archer should shoot a right winged feather and right handed helical, and a left handed archer should use the opposite.

  6. Chicken - Wikipedia

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    Hens, particularly from battery cage systems, are sometimes infirm or have lost a significant amount of their feathers, and their life expectancy has been reduced from around seven years to less than two years. [87] In the UK and Europe, laying hens are then slaughtered and used in processed foods, or sold as 'soup hens'. [87]

  7. 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.

  8. Chicken breeds recognized by the American Poultry Association

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    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 ...

  9. Solid white (chicken plumage) - Wikipedia

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    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.