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Silver-laced chick, three days old Gold-laced hen. The Wyandotte is a fairly large bird, with weights for adult birds in the range 2.7 to 4 kg (6 to 9 lb). [1] The body is of medium length, broad in the back and with a deep, full and well-rounded breast. [7] It is clean-legged and fairly close-feathered, and has a broad skull with a rose comb.
Red sex-links are a cross between a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire rooster and a White Rock (This variety pair is known as a Golden Comet), Silver Laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island White, or Delaware hen. Examples of a red-linked breeds include the Red Shaver and ISA Brown sex-links which are found in Canada. [3]
The Orpington is a British breed of chicken. It was bred in the late nineteenth century by William Cook of Orpington, at that time in Kent in south-east England. [5]: 115 It was intended to be a dual-purpose breed, to be reared both for eggs and for meat, but soon became exclusively a show bird. [6][7] The Australorp of Australia derives from it.
Green iridescence is desired for "beetle black" show chickens. Blue. Sumatra. dark blue-laced Andalusian. Splash or Blue Splashed White. Sumatra. Silkie. Splash is the homozygous form of Blue. Buff.
Barnevelder. The Barnevelder is a Dutch breed of domestic chicken. It resulted from cross-breeding between local Dutch chickens and various "Shanghai" birds imported from Asia to Europe in the later part of the nineteenth century; these may have been of Brahma, Cochin or Croad Langshan type. [1] It is named for the town and gemeente ...
The buff has the same markings, but with greenish-black on a golden-buff ground. The silver is similar to the light, but has grey thighs and a dark breast with silver lacing. [2]: 293 The red has the same markings as the light, but the base colour is a rich dark red throughout. The speckled is a rich dark mahogany colour, each feather with a ...
Auto-sexing breeds of poultry are those in which the sex of newly-hatched chicks can be determined from the colour and markings of the down. Some breeds of chicken, [1]: 53 of goose and of domestic pigeon have this characteristic. [2] The idea of such a breed is due to Reginald Punnett, who created the first auto-sexing chicken breed, the ...
Colorado authorities are conducting a homicide investigation after a dog breeder was found dead Saturday and as many as 10 puppies were missing from his Clear Creek County property, according to ...