Chicken Breeds Chart

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Chicken Breeds Chart - Australian Experience - from Data by BYP Forum Members - Under Construction

1-5 Ratings for eggs & broodiness. To contribute to this chart, please go to: Forum Topic


Breed Image Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feeding Temperament Table Value Breed Club
American Gamefowl caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Ancona caption Black & Red
(Large & Bantam)
Single Comb
Rosecomb
White Skin Large: kg
Bantam kg
White egg 4.png

Egg Colour: White
Egg size: large
Approx per year:300

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Rarely Broody
Economical to keep Moderately flighty Low Ancona Club of Australia
Adrian Saines
PO Box 538
Young NSW 2594
Andalusian caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table value Breed club
Araucana caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Asil caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Australian Game caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Australian Langshan caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Australian Pit Game caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Australorp caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Barnevelder caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Belgian Bantams caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Brahma caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Campine caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Cochin caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Croad Langshan caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Dorking caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Faverolles caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Frizzle caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Hamburgh caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Houdan caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Indian Game caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Japanese caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Jungle Fowl caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Legbar caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Leghorn caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Malay Game caption colors: black red


/silver and golden duckwing
/pyle/wheaton/white
plus plus others

Walnut comb White? Yellow? LARGE COCK/12m+ = 4kg+

LARGE HEN/12m+ = 3kg+ COCKEREL= 3kg+ PULLET = 2.5kg+

Eggs: large, tinted,

from 60 - 80 eggs a year

Great protective mothers


regularly go broody
May squash chicks or break eggs

Require a lot of food

Best fed on high protien
as young males can
'go down on the hocks'

Both males and females can


be aggresive to other birds
Not suited to mixed flock

Medium Breed club
Marans caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Minorca caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Modern Game caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
New Hampshire caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Old English Game caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Orpington caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Pekin caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Phoenix caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Plymouth Rock caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Polish caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Rhode Island caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Rosecomb caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Sebright caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Shamo caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Sicilian Buttercup caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Silkie caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Spanish caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Sultan caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Sumatra caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Sussex caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Transylvanian Naked Neck caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Welsummer caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Wyandotte caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club
Yokohama caption Varieties Comb types Skin colour Weights Egg colour and frequency Broodiness Feed conversion/efficiency Temperament Table Value Breed club