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 |  |
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| Black Breasted Red |
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| Black Laced | ||
| Black-tailed Buff |
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| Black-tailed White |  |
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| 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 |  |
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| 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 |  |
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| Self Blue | ||
| Silver | ||
| Silver Blue |  |
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| 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 | ||
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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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