List of chicken colours
Breeders and fanciers of chickens accurately describe the colours and patterns[1] of the feathers of chicken breeds and varieties. This is a list of the terms used in this context.
Colour | Image | Notes |
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Barred | Divided into Dark and Light in Australian Plymouth Rocks | |
Birchen | Sometimes called Grey in Japanese bantams. | |
Black | ||
Black Breasted Red |
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Black Laced | ||
Black-tailed Buff |
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Black-tailed White | ||
Black-tailed red | ||
Blue |
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Blue Brassy Back | ||
Blue Breasted Red |
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Blue Golden Duckwing | ||
Blue Laced |
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Blue Laced Red | ||
Blue Light Brown | ||
Blue Silver Duckwing | ||
Blue Mottled |
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Blue Wheaten | ||
Blue-red | ||
Brassy Back | ||
Brown | ||
Brown Red | Sometimes called Gold Birchen. | |
Buff | ||
Buff Columbian |
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Buff Laced |
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Alternatively known as Chamois.[2] |
Citrus Spangled |
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Coloured | ||
Columbian |
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Coronation | ||
Cream Light Brown |
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Crele |
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Silver Cuckoo |
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Golden Cuckoo | ||
Dark brown | ||
Exchequer | Found only in Leghorns with the exception of Serama. [3] | |
Fawn Silver Duckwing |
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Ginger Red | ||
Golden | ||
Golden Duckwing | ||
Golden Laced |
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Golden Neck | ||
Golden-necked mille fleur | ||
Golden Pencilled | ||
Golden Spangled |
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Gray | ||
Lavender |
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Lemon Blue | ||
Lemon Mille Fleur | ||
Light | ||
Light Brown | ||
Mille Fleur |
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Mottled | ||
Partridge |
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Porcelain | ||
Pyle | Alternatively spelt Pile. | |
Quail |
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Red |
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Red Pyle |
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Salmon | ||
Self Blue | ||
Silver | ||
Silver Blue | ||
Silver Duckwing | ||
Silver Gray |
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Silver Laced |
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Silver Pencilled |
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Silver Spangled |
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Spangled | ||
Speckled |
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Splash |
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Tolbunt | Seen only in Polish chickens | |
Wheaten |
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White |
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White Laced Red | ||
References
- ↑ All About Chickens: All the chicken colours under the sun Accessed January 2012.
- ↑ Wright, Lewis (2005). The new book of poultry. Ripol Classic Publishing House. p. 447. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ scnaonline.org
See also
- Equine coat colour
- List of poultry feathers
- Lavender (chicken plumage)
- Solid black (chicken plumage)
- Solid white (chicken plumage)
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