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The chicken breeds recognized by the American Poultry Association are listed in the American Standard of Perfection. They are categorized into classes: standard-sized breeds are grouped by type or by place of origin, while bantam breeds are classified according to type or physical characteristics.
The Sebright is a true bantam chicken breed Japanese bantam chick (left) compared to an Orpington chick. A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck.Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects.
Eight colour varieties are recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain: brown, buff, coronation, light, red, silver, speckled and white. [ 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 Japanese Bantam or Chabo (Japanese: 矮鶏) is a Japanese breed of ornamental chicken. It is a true bantam breed, meaning that it has no large fowl counterpart. It characterised by very short legs – the result of hereditary chondrodystrophy – and a large upright tail that reaches much higher than the head of the bird.
Silkies are considered a bantam breed in some countries, but this varies according to region and many breed standards class them officially as large fowl; the bantam Silkie is actually a separate variety most of the time. Almost all North American strains of the breed are bantam-sized, but in Europe the standard-sized is the original version.
Outbreaks of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in wild birds and poultry have been ongoing in the United States since 2022. As of Dec. 13, 60 confirmed human cases of H5N1 have been reported across ...
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Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767–1846) was the 7th Sebright Baronet, and a Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire. [10] In addition to breeding chickens, cattle and other animals, Sir John wrote several influential pamphlets on animal keeping and breeding: The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals (1809), Observations upon Hawking (1826), [11] and Observations upon the Instinct of ...