Breed (with links to Varieties / Rarity / Egg color & Comb Brooding other sites with What's a hen Class and Type Origins productivity; Skin color Hardiness Behavior images and more weigh? egg size Earlobes Maturing information) Black, Blue, Blue- APA (1984): South American. May or may pea occasional well adaptable to wheaten, Brown- Large: All not be genetically related to the Various brooder confinement or free red, Buff, Silver, Other Araucana. One theory is that shades of white with range; mostly calm, Ameraucana Wheaten, & White Ameraucanas were developed blue & slate very cold non-aggressive FS PB club Bantam : All by crossing Aracaunas with blue- colored hardy Easter Eggers are Other other breeds. The more current, green shanks Our Birds [mostly common. Standard more accepted theory is that a moderately mongrel Easter The chipmunky average to Ameraucanas are Clean Legged different breed from Chile, the red early maturing Eggers]: a few have blue-egger. above rare. 80% / 12% Quechua, was the parent stock been among the most average (EEs/pure) from which the Ameraucanas curious & most easily Unchanged since PC: Not were developed. Standardized handled birds we have 2003 recognized & accepted into APA in 1984. owned. Others have been calm, non- Standard: Note : whatever name they use, aggressive, but stand- 5.5 lb/2.5 kg Layer most hatcheries do not sell offish. None of ours Bantam: Fancy: standard Ameraucanas, but sell has gone broody. We 1.6 lb/0.75 kg Muffed, Easter Eggers -- chickens that wouldn't have a flock Bearded may lay blue, green, or other without them. colored eggs, but do not conform to standard. Not a problem for backyard flocks. Black mottled, APA (1898): Developed in Italy in mid-19th single, also non-setter prefers free range; Ancona only Large: century probably from leghorns white to rose nervous & restless in FS AL PP Mediterranean sporting mottled feathers. Once light cream generally confinement; flyer; Uncommon. Bantam: rivaled the Leghorn in Europe, yellow hardy; active, flighty, marked 40% Unchanged Single Comb but never caught on in North skin & very cold wildness, avoids human since 2003 Clean Legged America. shanks hardy except contact Almost a PC : Soft below for combs Leghorn, with Standard: Feather Light average white black mottling. 4.5 lb/2 kg early maturing Bantam: Layer hens 1.5 lb/0.7 kg Breed (with links to Varieties / Rarity / Egg color & Comb Brooding other sites with What's a hen Class and Type Origins productivity; Skin color Hardiness Behavior images and more weigh? egg size Earlobes Maturing information) Blue (Black and APA (1874): Developed in Spain & England single mostly a non- semi-adaptable to Splash [White] Large: in mid-19th century. Studied by setter confinement, but used for breeding, Mediterranean Gregor Mendel in experiments chalk to white skin, prefers free range; but not recognized) in genetics & heredity. creamy white slate blue Heat tolerant; active, flighty, noisy, Andalusian Bantam: Blue color does not breed true. shanks combs subject avoids human contact FS AL PP Uncommon. Bird. Single Comb Black & Splash (White) are to frostbite; Our Birds: ours, 32% Unchanged necessary for breeding. white ours were not received as adults, since 2003 Clean Legged robust, but that never fit in well with PC : Light, may not be the rest of the flock & Standard: Rare representative were nervous all the 5.5 lb/2.4 kg of the breed. time. Our one cock The original above Bantam: crowed louder than any blue. average 1.75 lb/0.8 kg Layer early maturing other we've ever had. Fancy: We've been hesitant to Blue feathered try them again, but we might, since they are such beautiful birds. Appenzeller Spitzhauben APA: Not Developed in Switzerland horn, V- can be broody not very tolerant of or Appenzell (Pointed Hood) recognized centuries ago. The name is shaped, close confinement; white FS PP club & Barthuhner PC: Soft thought to derive from the lace duplex very cold flyer; active, flighty (Bearded) Feather Light bonnets of the Appenzeller hardy, The national average region. white skin, except may breed of Spitzhauben rare; Layer blue have Switzerland. Barthuhner Fancy: shanks problems practically Crested with freezing unknown or Bearded bluish crest feathers white 8% /0% early maturing (spitz/barth) Unchanged since 2003 4 lb/1.8 kg Breed (with links to Varieties / Rarity / Egg color & Comb Brooding other sites with What's a hen Class and Type Origins productivity; Skin color Hardiness Behavior images and more weigh? egg size Earlobes Maturing information) Araucana or Black, White, Black APA (1976): According to the latest theory, pea good, or well adaptable to Rumpless Breasted Red, Blue, Large: All developed in Chile from a cross frequent, confinement or free blue Araucana Buff, Silver Other between the Collonca and the yellow skin, brooder range; calm, non- only FS PP PB club Bantam : All Queteros, two of several different willow aggressive Purebreds are very Other Clean blue egg-laying chicken breeds and shanks Cold hardy. The rumpless, below rare. Legged introduced to North American in Araucanas carry tufted blue- 0% Unchanged PC: Light, Rare 1921. Likely that some average red a "lethal gene" egger. since 2003 "mongrelization" occurred before which causes Layer standardization. Standards differ one quarter of Standard: Fancy: from country to country, indicating chicks to die in 5 lb/2.2 kg Rumpless that some different crosses and the shell. Bantam: Ear Tufts parent stock may have been 1.4 lb/0.65 kg involved in the development of the moderately breed. early maturing Note: no large North American hatchery, that I am aware of, sells Araucanas. Instead, whatever name they use, they are selling Easter Eggers -- chickens that may lay blue, green, or other colored eggs. For true Aracaunas, try some of the smaller farms and breeders. Black, White, APA: Developed in India more than 2000 small pea can be broody, bears confinement better Duckwing, Red Large: All years ago, perhaps even 3500 years protective than most other game Spangled, Pyle, Other ago. Thought to be the breed from lightly yellow skin mothers breeds; extremely fierce Aseel or Asil others PC: Hard which the Cornish was primarily tinted & shanks & pugnacious, but docile FS AL PP PB Feather Heavy developed. hardy, but not & easily handled when Very rare. productive red feathered for away from other cocks; 4% over short cold winters; because of Unchanged since Game season very hardy in aggressiveness, not 2003 high heat recommended for a mixed flock Ancient Indian Standard: below slow to mature athlete. 5 lb/2.2 kg average Bantam: 2 lb/0.9 kg Breed (with links to Varieties / Rarity / Egg color & Comb Brooding other sites with What's a hen Class and Type Origins productivity; Skin color Hardiness Behavior images and more weigh? egg size Earlobes Maturing information) Black, only APA (1929): Developed in 20th century in single can be broody; well adaptable to (standard); also Large: Englis Australia, primarily from the good mother confinement or free blue & white h Bantam: Orpington. Gained notoriety range; calm, docile; Single Comb when one hen in the 1920s laid a white skin, very hardy; more easily handled Australorp or brown Black Common Clean Legged record 364 eggs in 365 days. In dark very cold Australorp 80% Down since PC: Soft earlier "contests," a team of six shanks hardy Our Birds: confession: FS AL PP club 2003 Feather Heavy Australorps averaged 309.5 eggs we have both Black in a year. That individual moderately Orpingtons and The purported Standard: performance has never been average red early maturing Australorps, and I can't egg-laying 6.5 lb/2.9 kg Dual Purpose matched by subsequent tell them apart. They champ from Oz Bantam: Australorps. are docile, but haven't 2 lb/0.9 kg Not recommended if high egg been close to what production is your sole goal for some call "friendly." getting chickens. Double-laced, APA (2001): single mixed reports well adaptable to Blue-laced, White, Large: Developed in late 19th century on confinement or free Black, others Continental and early 20th century in very dark yellow setting & range; calm, docile Holland for dark egg laying. Barnevelder PC : Soft reddish skin & brooding Developed from an older local FS PP Rare, but surging Feather Heavy brown, shanks Our Birds: ours fit in with new interest variety that may date as early as with matte less cold well with the flock, but in dark egg layers. the 12th century. In recent finish red hardy; shied away with human 12% Up since Dual Purpose history, some strains have been developed in contact. Ours laid Famous for large average to 2003 bred for show and others for the region known reddish brown eggs, dark brown eggs. above darkness of their eggs. for damp but most were not average Standard: conditions especially dark. None 6-7 lb/2.7-3.2 kg currently in our flock, Bantam: slow to we will likely try them 2.25 lb/1.0 kg mature, again. & some chicks can be easily bullied Breed (with links to Varieties / Rarity / Egg color & Comb Brooding other sites with What's a hen Class and Type Origins productivity; Skin color Hardiness Behavior images and more weigh? egg size Earlobes Maturing information) Belgian Quail, Porcelain, APA (1949): Developed in Anver region of rose good, or active, flyer; hens calm, D'Anver, or Black, Blue, Buff, Bantam: Rose Belgium many decades ago. frequent, cocks can be aggressive Antwerp Cuckoo, Mille Comb Clean Rumpless versions are called De white skin, brooder creamy Belgian, Barbu Fleur, White, Legged Grubbe. Breed is often referred dark white d'Anvers Mottled, and more PC: True to simply as the Quail bantam, shanks robust FS PP Bantam after the most popular variety.