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The Chicken Breed Selector: UK Standardised Breeds
Chicken Breeds Pictures and Information. From the large fowl like Australorps or Orpingtons or maybe the smaller bantams like the Dutch, Belgian or Japanese, there's usually a breed of chicken that will tickle your fancy!
This page lists all 92 chicken breeds that are standardised in the British Poultry Standards and has a section for Hybrid crosses too.
Whilst Hybrids are technically not pure breeds, we have also included a section for Hybrid chickens due to their popularity. This page has been a rather big project as you can imagine. We'll keep adding new photos of breeds as we get them. If you keep a breed we don't have, please get in touch if you can help us to fill in the gaps!
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Light: Soft Feather |
Light: Soft Feather |
Light: Soft Feather |
Light: Soft Feather |
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Light: Soft Feather
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Rumpless Araucana Light: Soft Feather |
Asil |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
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Barbu d'Anvers |
Barbu d'Uccle |
Barbu de Watermael
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Barbu d'Everberg |
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Barbu du Grubbe |
Barnevelder Heavy: Soft Feather |
True Bantam (Rare) |
Brahma Heavy: Soft Feather |
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Brakel Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Heavy: Soft Feather
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Croad Langshan Heavy: Soft Feather |
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
True Bantam
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Heavy: Soft Feather |
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Fayoumi Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Friesian Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
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Hamburgh Light: Soft Feather |
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Not Pure Bred! |
Hard Feather |
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
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True Bantam
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Jersey Giant Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Ko Shamo |
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Kulang |
Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Lakenvelder Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing |
Light: Soft Feather |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
Malay |
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Heavy: Soft Feather |
Marsh Daisy Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Minorca Light: Soft Feather |
Modern Game Hard Feather |
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Modern Langshan Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Nankin Bantam True Bantam (Rare) |
Nankin Shamo |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Ohiki True Bantam (Rare) |
Carlisle Old English Game Hard Feather |
Hard Feather |
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Old English Game Bantam Hard Feather |
Old English Pheasant Fowl Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Orloff Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Heavy: Light Feather |
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True Bantam |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
Light: Soft Feather |
Redcap Light: Soft Feather |
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Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
Rosecomb Bantam True Bantam |
Rumpless Game Hard Feather (Rare) |
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Satsumadori |
Scots Dumpy Light: Soft Feather |
Scots Grey Light: Soft Feather |
True Bantam |
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True Bantam |
Shamo |
Sicilian Buttercup Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Light: Soft Feather
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Spanish Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Sulmtaler Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Sultan Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Sumatra Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
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Heavy: Soft Feather |
Taiwan |
Thai Game |
Light: Soft Feather
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Transylvanian Naked Neck Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Tuzo |
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Welbar Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing |
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Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Heavy: Soft Feather |
Wybar Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing |
Yakido |
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Yamato Gunkei |
Light: Soft Feather (Rare) |
Chicken Breed Classifications
There are two sizes of fowl that exist - 'Large Fowl' (often abbreviated to L.F) and 'Bantam'. There are many breeds of each but not all breeds of large fowl can be found in bantam size and vice-versa. Where there is a bantam size only, these are called 'True Bantams'. For many large breeds, bantams are created afterwards as a miniature version by selecting the smallest birds repeatedly for many generations, sometimes crossing out to other small bantams in the process to get the small size.
As well as Large Fowl and Bantam sizes, there is another distinction made with ‘Hard' and ‘Soft' Feather breeds. Generally, hard feather breeds are ‘Game' varieties, who historically were cockfighting birds. These have a tighter feathering than the soft feather chicken breeds, who are more fluffy.
The Poultry Club of Great Britain classifies ‘Rare' breeds as those without their own breed club or society. The Rare Poultry Society looks after these remaining breeds.
Chicken Breeds Pictures Thanks... We have to give an extra special thank you to Rupert Stephenson, poultry photographer who has supplied us with so many first class chicken breeds pictures for this area of the site and the Poultry Club of Great Britain who have been very kind in allowing us to photograph birds at their shows.
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