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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!
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
Light: Soft Feather
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Light: Soft Feather
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Light: Soft Feather
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Light: Soft Feather
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Light: Soft Feather
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Rumpless Araucana
Light: Soft Feather
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Asil
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Barbu d'Anvers
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Barbu d'Uccle
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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
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True Bantam (Rare)
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Brahma
Heavy: Soft Feather
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Brakel
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Croad Langshan
Heavy: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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True Bantam
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Fayoumi
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Friesian
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Hamburgh
Light: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Not Pure Bred!
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Hard Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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True Bantam
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Jersey Giant
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Ko Shamo
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Kulang
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Lakenvelder
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing
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Light: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Malay
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Marsh Daisy
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Light: Soft Feather
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Modern Game
Hard Feather
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Modern Langshan
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Nankin Bantam
True Bantam (Rare)
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Nankin Shamo
Extinct in the UK
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Ohiki
True Bantam (Rare)
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Carlisle Old English Game
Hard Feather
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Oxford Old English Game
Hard Feather
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Old English Game Bantam
Hard Feather
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Old English Pheasant Fowl
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Orloff
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Light Feather
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True Bantam
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Light: Soft Feather
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Redcap
Light: Soft Feather
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Rosecomb Bantam
True Bantam
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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
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Sicilian Buttercup
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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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)
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Sumatra
Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Taiwan
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Thai Game
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Light: Soft Feather
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Transylvanian Naked
Neck
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Tuzo
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Welbar
Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather
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Wybar
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing
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Yakido
Asian Hard Feather(Rare)
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Yamato Gunkei
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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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.
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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