Belgian d'Everberg

Belgian d'Everberg Rooster

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The Belgian d'Everberg is a breed of bantam chicken from the Belgian village of Everberg in the Kortenberg municipality. Called the Barbu d'Everberg in the original French, it is a tailless variant of the Belgian Bearded d'Uccle. A rare breed even in its home country, and was developed in 1906. It is a true bantam, with no large counterpart, and weighs an average of 600-700 grams (1.5 pounds).

Braekel

Braekel Breeds

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The Braekel or Brakel is one of the older European chicken breeds. Its history dates back to 1416, when it was mentioned as a successful poultry breed of the Brakel region, Belgium. Two distinct types were recognized in the past: the large type living on rich clay soil Flanders, and a light-weight type from the less fertile region, the Kempen.

Belgium Bearded d'Uccle

Belgium Bearded d'Uccle

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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.,[1] after the most common color variation (which is French for "thousand flowers"). It also has a related variant that is tailless, called the Belgian d'Everberg.

Belgium Bearded d'Anvers

Belgium Bearded d'Anvers

The Bearded d'Anvers is a breed of bantam chicken from Belgium. Also called the Antwerp Belgian, both names refer to the breed's origin in Antwerp (the French version being Anvers). The d'Anvers is a true bantam, having no large counterpart from which it was miniaturized. Males weigh 740 grams (26 ounces), and hens weigh 625 grams (22 ounces).

Campine Hen

Campine Hen

The Campine is a breed of chicken originating in Belgium's Campine region. They are a fairly small breed in Silver and Gold varieties, with solid white or golden hackles and iridescent black-green barred bodies. Hens and roosters are nearly identical in feather coloration. They will lay a fair number of white-shelled eggs, but are largely kept for showing today. The Campine's head

Sulmtaler Hen

Sulmtaler Hen

Sulmtaler is a breed of chicken, originating in Austria.

Name

Name Sulmtaler is derivated from the Sulm valley in Austria.

Origin


The breed is a landrace originated in Styria in Austria in the region between Graz and Maribor, mostly in the Sulm valley.

Description

Sulmtaler is a hardy breed, kept mostly for eggs and meat. The roosters weigh 3-3,5 kg and the hens from 2,5-3,5 kg. The hens are nonsitters, produce 150-160 eggs per year of 55 g weight.

Asil

A Asil Cock & Two Hen

The Asil or Aseel is a breed of chicken originating from South Punjab/ Sindh area of Pakistan and India. Similar fowl are found throughout Southeast Asia and have names like Shamo, Taiwan, etc.

Similar to Asils are Sadal (called Malay in Europe). This is a very large breed of chicken from Pakistan and India. They have longer legs with thin thighs and little wattles with pea-combs. The difference between the two is that Sadal are not game (do not fight), and Asil do.

Westphalian Chicken

Westphalian Chicken

The Westphalian chicken (German: Westfälischer Totleger) is old hardy landrace of chicken, which is more than 400 years old. It is a rare breed. As of 2009, only 301 roosters and 1353 hens were officially registered.
Name
Although German name "Tot" means "death" and "Leger" means nonsitters (hen which legs eggs), the real

Vorwerk

Vorwerk Hen

The Vorwerk is a breed of chicken originating in Germany. Though it is unrelated to the German company which produces the Vorwerk vacuum cleaner, it is the only chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance. A rare fowl, it has distinctive black and gold plumage.
History
Beginning in 1900, poultry breeder Oskar Vorwerk began to create a medium-sized, utilitarian fowl with the belted plumage pattern of the Lakenvelder. The key

Phonix

Golden Phonix Rooster

The Phoenix is one of many breeds of chicken that resulted from European selective breeding of onagadori.a long-tail fowl bred in Japan for a thousand years.

They molt every year or every other year. They have wide, rigid sickle feathers two to five long, with their saddle feather growing from 12 to 18 inches.

Lakenvelder

Lakenvelder Hen

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 flighty breed that is a good forager if allowed to free range. While it does well on range, it also bears confinement well. It has a small 4-5 pound body and is a good layer of small to medium a white or cream eggs, but is a non-setter.

East Frisian Gull

East Frisian Gull, Gold

East Frisian Gull, Silver

The East Frisian Gull (German: Ostfriesische Möwe) is old hardy landrace of chicken. It is a rare breed. As of 2009, only 218 roosters and 972 hens were officially registered in Germany.

Bergischer Long Crower

Bergischer Long Crower

Bergischer Long Crower Hen

Bergische Long Crower (German: Bergischer Kräher) is old German chicken breed.
Origin
The breed originated in the Bergisches Land in Germany. Its ancestors are Balkan long crowing chicken breeds which were imported into Germany from Balkans.Nowadays it is a rare breed.
Description
Birds are black with some gold feathers on the wings. Rooster have gold neck. The roosters weigh 3.5 kg and the hens 2.5 kg. The hens are nonsitters, produce 180 eggs per year of 60 g weight.
Crow
This breed belongs to the group of long crowing chicken breeds. Their crow averages 15 seconds.

Hambarg

Hamburg Rooster

Hamburg Bantam Chicks

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 hens about 4 lb (2.25 and 1.75 kg) with slender legs and a neat rose comb. The bird comes in more than ten different varieties, including: Silver-Spangled, Golden-Spangled, Golden-Penciled, Silver-Penciled, White, Black, and more recently-Citron Spangled in bantam form. Penciled breeds are smallest and self-colored birds are largest.

Welsummer

Welsummer Hen

Welsummer is a chicken breed originally from the small village of Welsum, in the eastern Netherlands.

It was bred at the beginning of the 20th century from local fowls of mixed origin: Rhode Island Reds, Barnevelders, Partridge Leghorns, Cochins, and Wyandottes. In 1922-23 steps were taken to fix a standard after the birds began to show a good deal of uniformity. The eggs were originally

Dutch Bantam

Dutch Bantam Hen

Dutch Bantam Roosters

 

 The Dutch Bantam is a breed of chicken originating in the Netherlands. It is also one of the true bantam breeds, meaning it is a naturally small bird with no related large fowl from which it was miniaturized.Dutch Bantams have many color variations, and have grown in popularity as exhibition poultry worldwide.

Dutch bantams are also practical chickens, being especially hardy, good layers for their size. They are desirable family pets due to their reputation for thriving on loving care and easy keeping in confined space.

Booted Bantam

Booted Bantam Rooster

The Booted Bantam, also called the Dutch Booted Bantam, is a bantam breed of chicken. Its name is derived from the bird's extravagant feathering on the feet and hock joints, which are called vulture hocks or "sabels" in Dutch. With no large fowl counterpart from which it was miniaturized, the Booted is one of the true bantams. Males usually weigh in at around 850 grams (30 ounces) and females 750 grams (27 ounces). American standards dictate a smaller ideal size of 740 grams (26 ounces) for males, and 625 (22 ounces) for females.

Wyandotte

Wyandotte Hen

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 their brown eggs and for meat. They appear in a wide variety of color patterns, and are popular show birds. The Wyandotte lays pale brown or tan eggs and usually has a white ring of feathers around its neck. Wyandotte hens are devoted mothers.

Dominique Hen

Dominique Cock

The Dominique, also known as Dominicker or Pilgrim Fowl, is a breed of chicken (gallus gallus) originating in the United States during the Colonial. It is considered America's oldest breed of chicken, probably descending from chickens brought to New England from southern England during colonial times.

Rhode Island White

Rhode Island White Hen

The Rhode Island White is a breed of chicken originating in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Despite their very similar names and shared place of origin, the Rhode Island White is a distinct breed from the Rhode Island Red. However, Rhode Island Reds and Whites can be bred together to create Red Sex Link hybrid chickens, such as the ISA Brown.

Delware (Chicken)

Delware Hen

The Delaware is a breed of chicken originating in the U.S. state of Delaware. It was once of relative importance to the U.S. chicken industry, but today is critically endangered. Delware is primarily suited to meat production but also lays reasonably well. Delware has plumage of a unique pattern, and is accepted in to poultry standards for showing.

California Gray

California Gray Chicken

The California Gray is a breed of chicken developed in the U.S. state of California in the 1930s by James Dryden, a professor of poultry science at Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University. The objective of the breed's creator was to produce a dual–purpose chicken that was suitable for meat production and laid large white eggs. By crossing Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Leghorns,

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Rooster

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 early maturity, rapid full feathering, and production of large brown eggs. The mature birds are a rich chestnut red, of a somewhat lighter and more even shade than the Rhode Island Reds. The baby chicks are also a lighter red.
Use
A dual purpose chicken, selected more for meat production than egg production. Medium heavy in weight, it dresses a nice, plump carcass as either a broiler or a roaster.

Australian Langshan

Australian Langshan

The Australian Langshan is an Australian chicken breed, derived from the Croad Langshan and accepted by the Australian Poultry Standard as a recognized breed. The Australian Langshan is little known outside Australia but is a popular breed inside the country. The breed comes in both bantam and standard size.
The Australian Langshan is a small black, blue or white bird, with an upright carriage, long legs and medium sized straight comb, which should be red. Ideally, the outer toe of each foot should be feathered.

Australorp Hen

Australorp Hen

The Australorp is an Australian chicken breed. It is a large, soft-feathered bird which has two reconized colours according to the Australian Poultry Standard; black and blue. A third colour, white, is reconized by the Australorp Club of Australia but not the Australian Poultry Standard, as of the current (1st) edition of the Standard. The black Australorp is the most common, and has glossy black feathers and a lustrous green sheen. The blue Australorp however has a grey-blue plugmage and the white Australorp is a pure white bird.
The Australorp is a hardy, docile, and a good egg-layer as well as meat bird. The bird's single comb is moderately large and upright, with five distinct points.

Serama

Serama Rooster

The Serama (Malay Ayam Serama), also called the Malaysian Serama is a bantam breed[citation needed] of chicken originating in Malaysia within the last 50 years.
The Malaysian Serama origins and history are unclear. There are legends of it being descent from a chance cross between a pigeon and chicken. Other stories of the birds derived from a gift of some small chickens by the King of Thailand to a local sultan in ancient times.
It was almost certainly developed in Kelantan Province in Malaysia (near Thai border).

Malay Hen

Malay Hen

The Malay is a breed of chicken originating in Asia, most likely in northern Pakistan (formerly part of India). These birds are cousins of Asil. It is unknown why they were called Malay, but perhaps because of a mistake by the former East India Company, when they introduced that exotic new breed around 1570[citation needed]. In Asia, the Malay chicken is usually found only in rural areas and villages. It is sometimes referred to as "kampung" chicken (kampung means "village" in Malay).

Buckeye Rooster

Buckeye Rooster

The Buckeye male weighs an average of 9 lbs (4.1 kg), and the hen 6.5 lbs (3 kg). The breed has yellow skin and lays brown eggs. Its primary color is a mahogany red with black tails; sometimes males have other dark feathering. According to the breed standard, a Buckeye's plumage should ideally resemble the hue of an Ohio Buckeye's seeds. Especially in the hen, the breed is very similar in appearance to the Rhode Island Red, although can be differentiated by a bar of slate color on the back feathers close to the body; the body is also much more compact, with a short, yet broad, back.

Lamona Hen

Lamona Hen

The Lamona is a breed of chicken originating in the United States. It was developed in the early 20th century by Harry S. Lamon, who was the senior poultry expert at the Bureau of Animal Industry,an agency that was eventually replaced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.Working at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland, Lamon crossed White Plymouth Rocks, Silver-Gray Dorkings and White Leghorns to produce the Lamona. The effort began in 1912 and by 1933 it

Delware Hen

Blue Delware Hen

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 Delware bird.

While Delware  is not a currently recognized chicken breed,[1] the fame of the Blue Delware Hen can be traced back to the Revolutionary War. On December 9, 1775, the Continental Congress resolved that a military battalion was to be raised from Delaware, then known as the Lower Counties on the Delaware. Thus, the Delaware regiment was born—a group composed of eight companies representing New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties.

Black Java

Black Java

The Java is a breed of chicken originating in the United States. Despite the breed's name, which comes from the island of Java in Indonesia, it was developed in the U.S. from chickens of unknown Asian extraction. It is one of the oldest American chickens, forming the basis for many other breeds, but is critically endangered today. Javas are large birds with a sturdy appearance. They are hardy, and are well-suited for both meat and egg production, especially by small-scale farms, homesteads, and backyard keepers.

American Game Hen

American Game Hen

American Game is a game breed of chicken originating in the United States. It's colors vary widely, as it has been traditionally bred for reasons other than showing. The American gamefowl should not be confused with Old English Games, another breed once bred for "the pit, though now is an exhibition bird.
American gamefowl is a breed of poultry once bred for cockfighting.

Ameraucana Cock

Blue Ameraucana Cock

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 shows by the American Poultry Association: Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown Red, Buff, Silver, Wheaten and White. There are several project colors, including. Lavender.
Ameraucanas are similar to Araucana chickens because both have pea