Friday, 30 May 2014

Chicken Breeds

Chicken Breeds

The Chicken Breed Selector: UK Standardised Breeds

Chicken Breeds Pictures and Information. From the large fowl like Australorps or Orpingtons or maybe the smaller bantams like the Dutch, Belgian or Japanese, there's usually a breed of chicken that will tickle your fancy!
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This page lists all 92 chicken breeds that are standardised in the British Poultry Standards and has a section for Hybrid crosses too.
Whilst Hybrids are technically not pure breeds, we have also included a section for Hybrid chickens such as the Black Rock due to their popularity.
This page has been a rather big project as you can imagine. Rupert and Tim have spent over 7 years visiting shows around the UK to get (most of) these breed photographs. We are now working on gathering photos for a page of breeds classified as AOV (Any Other Variety). These are extremely rare breeds that are not standardised by the Poultry Club of GB. 
If you appreciate the work we have done here, then please consider sharing this page thank you.

ALL TYPES OF HENS INFORMATON

Ancona Chickens
Light: Soft Feather
Andalusian Chickens
Light: Soft Feather
Appenzeller Barthuhner Chickens
Light: Soft Feather
Appenzeller Spitzhauben Chickens
Light: Soft Feather
Araucana Chickens
Light: Soft Feather

Rupless Araucana Chickens
Rumpless Araucana
Light: Soft Feather
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Asil
Australorp Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather
Belgian Bantam Barbu DAnvers
Barbu d'Anvers
Belgian Bantam Barbu DUccle
Barbu d'Uccle

Belgian Bantam De Watermael
Barbu de Watermael

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Barbu d'Everberg

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Barbu du Grubbe
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Barnevelder
Heavy: Soft Feather
Booted Bantams
True Bantam (Rare)
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Brahma
Heavy: Soft Feather


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Brakel
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)

Campine Chickens
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)


Cochin Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather

Croad Langshan Chickens
Croad Langshan
Heavy: Soft Feather
Dominique Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather


Dutch Bantams
True Bantam

Faverolles Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather


Fayoumi Chickens
Fayoumi
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)


Frizian Chickens
Friesian
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)

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Heavy: Soft Feather
German Langshan Chicken
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)

Hamburgh Chickens
Hamburgh
Light: Soft Feather

Houdan Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
Hybrid Chickens
Not Pure Bred!

Indian Game or Cornish Chickens
Hard Feather



Ixworth Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)




Japanese Bantams
True Bantam

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Jersey Giant
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Ko Shamo
Kraiencoppe Chickens
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Kulang
La Fleche Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Lakenvelder
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)


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Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing

Leghorn Chickens
Light: Soft Feather


Lincolnshire Buff Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather
Malay Chickens
Malay


Marans Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather

Marsh Daisy Chickens
Marsh Daisy
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)


Minorca Chickens
Light: Soft Feather

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Modern Game
Hard Feather
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Modern Langshan
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
Nankin Bantam
Nankin Bantam
True Bantam (Rare)
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Nankin Shamo
Extinct in the UK
New Hampshire Red Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather

Norfolk Grey Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)

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Ohiki
True Bantam (Rare)
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Carlisle Old English Game
Hard Feather
Oxford Old English Game
Oxford Old English Game
Hard Feather

Old English Game Bantam
Old English Game Bantam
Hard Feather


Old English Pheasant Fowl

Old English Pheasant Fowl
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
Orloff Chickens
Orloff
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
Orpington Chickens
Heavy: Light Feather



Pekin Bantams
True Bantam

Plymouth Rock Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather
Poland Chickens
Light: Soft Feather

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Redcap
Light: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)

Rhode Island Red chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather
Rosecomb Bantams

Rosecomb Bantam
True Bantam
Rumpless Game

Rumpless Game
Hard Feather (Rare)
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Satsumadori
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Scots Dumpy
Light: Soft Feather
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Scots Grey
Light: Soft Feather
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True Bantam
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True Bantam
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Shamo


Sicilian Buttercup chickens
Sicilian Buttercup
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
Silkie Chickens

Light: Soft Feather

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Spanish
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Sulmtaler
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)




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Sultan
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)

Sumatra Chickens
Sumatra
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)

Sussex Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather
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Taiwan
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Thai Game
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Light: Soft Feather

Transylvanian Naked Neck Chickens
Transylvanian Naked
Neck
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Tuzo
Vorwerk Chickens
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Welbar
Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
Wyandotte Chickens
Heavy: Soft Feather

Wybar Chickens
Wybar
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing


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Yakido
Yamato Gunkei Chickens
Yamato Gunkei
Yokohama Chickens
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)

Chicken Breed Classifications

There are two sizes of fowl that exist - 'Large Fowl' (often abbreviated to L.F) and 'Bantam'. There are many breeds of each but not all breeds of large fowl can be found in bantam size and vice-versa. Where there is a bantam size only, these are called 'True Bantams'. For many large breeds, bantams are created afterwards as a miniature version by selecting the smallest birds repeatedly for many generations, sometimes crossing out to other small bantams in the process to get the small size.
As well as Large Fowl and Bantam sizes, there is another distinction made with ‘Hard' and ‘Soft' Feather breeds. Generally, hard feather breeds are ‘Game' varieties, who historically were cockfighting birds. These have a tighter feathering than the soft feather chicken breeds, who are more fluffy.
The Poultry Club of Great Britain classifies ‘Rare' breeds as those without their own breed club or society. The Rare Poultry Society looks after these remaining breeds.
We also have pages on Standard Duck Breeds and Goose Breeds, again with photos and individual breed pages.
Images are Copyright 
Please do not use these images without permission.
Chicken Breeds Pictures Thanks... We have to give an extra special thank you to Rupert Stephenson, poultry photographer who has supplied us with so many first class chicken breeds pictures for this area of the site and the Poultry Club of Great Britain who have been very kind in allowing us to photograph birds at their shows.
Thank you also to Julia of the Asian Hardfeather Club who has supplied photos of Nankin Shamo - now very rare and only found in small numbers in Japan, Kulang Asil and Yakido.




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