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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming...
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American Game Fowl
The American Game is a game breed originating in the United States. It's colors come widely in range due to them being bred for the pit instead of color. Though the most common are Black breasted red (called reds, or by strain name), Wheaten (called...
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Welsummer
Welsummer is a chicken breed originally from the small village of Welsum, in the east part of The Netherlands.
It was bred from local fowls of mixed origin, Rhode Island Reds, Barnevelders, Partridge Leghorns, Cochins, and Wyandottes at the...
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Leghorn chicken
The Leghorn is a breed of chicken with origins in Italy. The first birds imported to America in 1853 were called Italians. By 1865 the breed was named Leghorn, likely an Anglicization of Ligurian in reference to the Ligurian Sea ports from whence...
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Rhode Island Red
The Rhode Island Red is a breed of chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). They are a utility bird, raised for meat and eggs, and also as show birds. They are a popular choice for backyard flocks because of their egg laying abilities and hardiness. Non...
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Houdan
Houdan is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Houdan is 63 kilometres (39 mi)west of Paris in the Yvelines département. It is linked by SNCF Alençon and Paris (Gare Montparnasse).
The name has...
Orpington
The Orpington is a large bird from the English class of chickens. It is a bold, upright breed with a wide chest, broad back, and small head and tail. The Orpington was bred as a dual-purpose breed (meat production and eggs), but its popularity grew...
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Barnevelder
The Barnevelder is a medium heavy breed of chicken named after the Dutch town of Barneveld. It is a cross of 19th century Dutch landrace chickens with Asian breeds imported to Europe in the mid-late 19th century such as the Brahma, Cochin, Croad...
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Blue Hen of Delaware
The Blue Hen of Delaware is a variety of chicken that was adopted on April 14, 1939 as the state bird of Delaware. The University of Delaware mascot, known as YoUDee, is also modeled after the bird.
While it is not a currently recognized chicken...
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Dorking
The Dorking is a breed of chicken that is believed to have originated in Italy during the period of the Roman Empire. One of the earliest known mentions of this breed was by the Roman writer Columella during the reign of Julius Caesar. In his text,...
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Cornish
The Cornish, known as the Indian Game in its native country of England, is a breed of chicken originating in the county of Cornwall. Cornish chickens, as well as crosses of Cornishes, are the most-used breed in the chicken meat industry. They are...
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Bantam
A bantam is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically, the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam, once a major seaport, in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native...
Australorp
The Australorp is an Australian chicken breed. It is a large, soft-feathered bird with glossy black feathers and a lustrous green sheen. It is hardy, docile and a good egg-layer as well as meat bird. The bird's single comb is moderately large and...
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Brahma
Brahmas are an Asiatic breed of chicken, originating in the Brahmaputra region in India where they were known as "Gray Chittagongs." Their heritage is unclear, but they are believed to be closely related to the Jungle Fowl (Gallus Gigantus) and the...
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Pekin Bantam
The breed is a member of the True Bantams, alongside Japanese, and Yokohama. It is reported that they arrived in England after the Royal Palace in Peking had been destroyed, by soldiers or civilians in Peking at...
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Sussex
The Sussex chicken is a dual purpose breed that is a popular backyard chicken in many countries. They come in eight colours (with a couple more being developed) and have a bantam version at 1/4 size; the bantams may be any of the seven colours. The...
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Scots Dumpy
The Scots Dumpy is a breed of chicken from Scotland. The moniker dumpy, meaning short and stout, refers the breed's thick-set appearance and extremely short legs. Through history they have been known under a host of names such as: Bakies, Stumpies,...
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Plymouth Rock
The Plymouth Rock, often called simply Rocks or Barred Rocks (after their most popular color), is a chicken breed that originated in the United States. The Plymouth Rock is a dual-purpose, cold-hardy bird and therefore makes a great breed for the...
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Asturian Painted Hen
The Asturian Painted Hen (Spanish: pita pinta asturiana) is a breed of chicken originating in Asturias.
The word came from the Asturian language, 'Pita' means 'hen'.
In reference to this breed origin, it is noticed that all the material corresponds...
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Japanese Bantam
The Japanese Bantam, also known in many parts of the world as Chabo, is a breed of chicken originating in Japan. They are a bantam breed, with large upright tails that often reach over the chicken's head. The wings angle down and to the back along...
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Dominique
The Dominique, also known as the Dominicker, is a breed of chicken originating in the United Kingdom. It is considered America's oldest breed of chicken, having been brought to New England from southern England during colonial times. By the 19th...
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Yurlov Crower
The Yurlov Crower is an old Russian breed of chicken primarily selected and used for long crowing cock contests in Russia.
Russian Name: юрловская голосистая.
Other Names: Yurlovo Crower, Yurlov Vociferous (English), Jurlower Kräher (German), Yurlow...
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Old English Game
The Old English Game Fowl is a breed of chicken. Pure English Game Fowls are prized among Poultry breeders and thus fetch a high sale price. one of the type oxford english large were originally bred for cockfighting. Old english should not be...
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Wyandotte
The Wyandotte is a breed of chicken originating in the United States. The first examples of the breed appeared in 1870s. Wyandottes are a docile, dual-purpose breed kept for both eggs (Wyandottes are brown egg layers) and meat. They also appear in a...
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Saipan Jungle Fowl
The Saipan Jungle Fowl is a breed of domestic chicken. Not a true jungle fowl, it was found on the island of Saipan. It is thought to have been brought into The United States of America by returning American servicemen at the end of World War II...
Croad Langshan
The Croad Langshan is an old, heavy, soft-feathered chicken breed which probably originated in China. The first recorded imports came from the Langshan District (north of the Yangtse-Kiang River in China) in 1872 and were undertaken by Major F.T....
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Bekisar
The Bekisar is the first generation hybrid offspring of the Green Junglefowl and a domestic female game chicken of bankiva subspecies. Bekisars were traditionally used by the original inhabitants of the Sunda Islands as symbolic/spiritual mascots on...
Winnebago
In Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture (c. 1912) by John H. Robinson (USA), p. 408 the author states: In "Wyandottes: Silver, Golden, Black, and White" by Joseph Wallace, 1891, Joseph McKeen of Omro, Wisconsin, is quoted as denying that the...
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Andalusian
The Andalusian is a breed of chicken originating in the Andalucia region. Often called the Blue Andalusian for the color accepted for showing by the American Poultry Association, they also appear in Splash (mottled) and Black. They are classified as...
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Hamburg
The Hamburg or Hamburgh in Britain, is a type of chicken developed in Germany and Holland prior to 1700. It is comparatively rare, with less than 1000 registered in North America each year.
It is a small breed—cocks tend to weigh only 5 pounds and...
Barred Holland
Hollands are a fairly rare breed of large chickens that are dual purpose and originate from America.
The breed started with birds imported from Holland being crossed with White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshires, and Lamonas, which created...
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New Hampshire
The New Hampshire breed of chicken originated in the state of New Hampshire in the United States. Poultry farmers, starting with Rhode Island Reds and performing generation after generation of selective breeding, intensified the characteristics of...
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Polish chicken
The Polish is a European breed of chicken known for its crest of feathers. The English language name of these birds is a misnomer, as they do not originate in the country of Poland. Instead, the oldest accounts of crested chickens comes from the...
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Jersey Giant
The Jersey Giant is a breed of chicken originating in the United States in the late 1800's by John and Thomas Black. The intent of the breed was the replace the turkey as the primary meat poultry breed. Named for their state of origin (New Jersey)...
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Easter Eggers
An Easter Egger is any chicken that possesses the "blue egg" gene, but doesn't fully meet any breed description as defined in the American Poultry Association (APA) and/or the American Bantam Association (ABA) standards. The name derives from the...
Minorca
The Minorca is a breed of chicken originating in Spain. They are classified in the Mediterranean class by the American Poultry Association. They lay white eggs. Color varieties include buff, black, white with the British recognizing a blue phase....
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Lakenvelder
Lakenvelders or Lakenfelders are a breed of chicken developed in the 1830’s in Germany despite their Dutch name. Characteristics of the breed are black head, collar, and tail, white body, white skin and slate colored legs. The Lakenvelder is a...
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Belgian Bearded d'Uccle
The Belgian Bearded d'Uccle (pronounced dew-clay), or Barbu D'Uccle in French, is a breed of bantam chicken originating from the town of Uccle on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium. The bird is frequently referred to as the Mille Fleur in the U.S.,...
Poulet de Bresse
The Bresse (French: Poulet de Bresse) is a breed of chicken originating from the Bresse area of the Rhône-Alpes region of France.
The birds are highly valued for their rich, gamey depth of flavour, yet with fine, tender flesh and delicious, clean...
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Ameraucana
The Ameraucana is a breed of chicken developed in the United States. The name is a portmanteau term of American and Araucana (a related breed). Ameraucanas come in both a large and bantam variety. Eight colors are officially recognized for poultry...
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Norfolk Grey
The Norfolk Grey is a breed of chicken that originated in the city of Norwich, in Norfolk, England. They were created by Fred Myhill before the First World War as utility birds under the name Black Marias. The name was unfortunately reminiscent of...
Norwegian Jærhøne
The Norwegian Jærhøne or Jaerhon, is a breed of chicken from Norway. It was developed in the 1920s from native stock around the town of Stavanger on the southern Atlantic coast of Norway. The breed was first imported to North America in 1994 by Dr...
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Lohmann Brown
The Lohmann brown is an egg-laying chicken. It is of hybrid origin and selectively bred.
Sebright
The Sebright is a breed of chicken named after its developer, Sir John Saunders Sebright. Created in the 19th century through a selective breeding program designed to produce an ornamental breed, the Sebright is a true bantam, meaning it is a...
