Animal Science 234 - Poultry Breeds

Black copper Maran

Black copper Maran description

• all black with mahogany tipped hackles

• They have feathered feet

• They will lay chocolate-colored eggs

Black laced silver Wyandotte

Black lacked silver Wyandotte description

• characteristic plumage pattern (white feather laced with black)

• As a chick, they have this typical black/tan and red face

• most have cushion (flat comb) but a few have single combs

• will lay brown eggs

Sapphite olive egger

Sapphire olive egger description

• generally blue with a mohawk crest

• they get their distinctive crest from the cream legbar

• quite large

• they will lay green/olive eggs

Prairie bluebell

Prairie bluebell description

• can be any color but we mostly splash (white with a few blue feathers), blue and one black

• small box-size head (two bumps on the top of the skull), and very full hackle (inherited from the white leghorn heritage)

• smallest birds we have

• can be any color

• will lay blue eggs

Australorp

Austrolorp description

• large black bird

• black scales on most of their legs but the tip of the toes

• the chicks had characteristic black and white faces

• single comb

• lay brown eggs

• the breed holes the record of most eggs laid in a year

Americana

Americana description

• can be any color and pattern

• muffs (maybe a beard too)

• green legs

• pea comb

• lay blue eggs

Bielefelder

Bielefelder description

• the largest bird we have, probably crossed with something else, actually

• They will lay X-large medium brown eggs