chicken breeds

Rhode Island

Best of the brown egg
producers

Plymouth Rock

Used to be USA's favorite
breed

Jersey Giants

World's largest breed

Dominique

America's first breed

Wyandotte

The "bird of curves"

Brahma

Used to be the largest breed
Now uncommon

Cochin

Big ball of fluff and feathers

Langshan

The long-legged,
high-tailed, and
feather-footed regal bird
Now uncommon

Australorp

Egg-laying champ from Oz

Cornish

Farmed meal bird, especially
when crossed
Uncommon

Orpington

Big gentle bird

Sussex

An old English favorite

Leghorn (Italy)

Ultimate egg machine

Ancona

Almost a Leghorn, with
black mottling

Andalusian

Original blue

Buttercup

Unique comb

Catalana

Most popular breed of South
America
Rare

Minorca (Spain)

Largest Mediterranean
XL eggs

Spanish

Oldest of the Mediterranean
breeds

Ameraucana (S. Am)

Chipmunky blue-egger

Araucana / Rumpless Araucana

Rumpless, tufted blue-egger

Faverolle

French poodle of the chicken
breeds

Houdan

Crested French bird with big
eyes

Le fleche

Devil bird

Lakenvelder

Shadow on a sheet

Sumatra

Chicken with lustrous black
long tail

Malay

Cruel-looking elongated
giant

Cubalaya

Cuba's fighting meat bird
Developed in the 19th
century from Philippine or
Indo stock

Asil/Aseel

Ancient Indian Athlete

Bolinao

Straight spurs, able to fly when in
combat
Bushy tail rather similar to a squirrel
Tightly feathered, with well placed
wings carried close to their body

Camarines

Popular fighter roosters (FAO)
Legs have alternating patches of
black and white, like domino effect

Joloano

"Basilan Native Fowl"
Black tail

Parawakan/ Paraoakan

Resembles Asil of India
Upright black tail with white feathers
at its base
Long-legged heavy breed

Buttercup

Chicken Breed with a buttercup comb

Malay

Chicken Breed with a strawberry comb

Jersey Giants

Heaviest American breed

Ameraucana & Araucana

Blue egg layer breed

Buckeye & Chantecler

Best Cold Hardy breeds

Game; Oriental; Miscellaneous

3 subclass of Other Standard Breeds

American; Asiatic; English; Mediterranean; Continental; Other Standard Breeds

Classes of Chicken

Agricultural & Other

2 types of poultry

Poultry & Broilers

2 subtypes of Agricultural type

Bantam

True breeding miniature chickens with large counterparts and is ¼ of the standard

Banty/ Bantie

any nondescript undersized chicken

Variety

Subclass of a breed identified by some observable traits

Strain

A bird of a breed developed by a breeder by introducing certain economic traits

Breed

a group of related fowls that breed true to a number of given traits that identify the breed

Standard

Chicken that fits the ideal characteristics of its breed, as specified by the American Standard of Perfection, a book by
the American Poultry Association which classifies and describes the standard physical appearance, coloring, and temperament for
all recognized breeds of poultry

banaba

batangas
game
straight combed
black breasted
bright red earlobes
slate shanks

darag

panay island
dual purpose
straight combed
yellow skinned