Chicken Breeds
The following lists detail all of the breeds of chicken that can be found in the United Kingdom. There may be one or two breeds that we have missed, if so, please let us know about them by contacting us.
Many breeds have different varieties - e.g. colour, mottled, laced, frizzle, pencilled, bearded, speckled etc. All of these breed true except for blues. This is because Blue birds is not a ‘true' colour and is made up of Black and Splash.
Large Fowl
Ancona, Andalusian, Appenzellar, Australorp, Barnevelder, Brahma, Campine, Cochin, Crevecoeur, Croad Langshan, Derbyshire Redcaps, Dorking, Faverolles, Fayoumi, Friesian, Frizzle, German Langshan, Hamburgh, Houdan, Indian Game, Ixworth, Jersey Giant, Kraienkoppe, La Fleche, Lakenfelder, Legbar (including Welbar, Rhodebar, Wybar), Leghorns, Long Crower, Marans, Marsh Daisy, Minorca, Modern Game, Modern Langshan, New Hampshire Red, Norfolk Grey, North Holland Blue, Old English Pheasant Fowl, Old English Game, Orpington, Penedesenca, Plymouth Rock, Poland, Rhode Island Red, Rumpless, Russian Orloff, Scots Dumpy, Scots Grey, Sicilian Buttercup, Silkie, Spanish, Sultan, Sumatra, Sussex, Transylvanian Naked Neck, Vorwerk, Welsummer, Wyandotte, Yokohama.
Bantams
Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Barnevelder, Brahma, Croad Langshan, Derbyshire Redcaps, Faverolles, Friesian, Frizzle, German Langshan, Hamburgh, Houdan, Indian Game, Kraienkoppe, Lakenfelder, Leghorns, Marans, Minorca, Modern Game, New Hampshire Red, Ohiki, Old English Game, Buff Orpington, Black, White and Blue Orpington, Plymouth Rock, Poland, Rhode Island Red, Rumpless, Russian Orloff, Scots Dumpy, Scots Grey, Sicilian Buttercup, Silkie, Spanish, Sulmtaler, Sumatra, Sussex, Transylvanian Naked Neck, Vorwerk, Welbar, Wybar, Welsummer, Wyandotte, Yokohama.
True Bantams
Belgian (Barbu D'Uccle, Barbu D'Anvers, Barbu D'Everberg, Barbu De Watermael, Barbu De Grubbe), Booted, Dutch, Japanese, Nankin, Pekin, Rosecomb, Sebright
Asian Hard Feather
Asil, Kulang, Satsumadori, Malay, O Shamo, Chu Shamo, Ko Shamo, Tuzo, Yamato Gunkei (this is an exceedingly rare little bird and although there are not many in the UK we probably have more than Japan where it originated).
We are (slowly!) building a section for each breed of chicken where we can present information and photographs of the breed. If you would like to write an article about the breed you keep or could provide us with a couple of photos, we would be very grateful.
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