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List of chicken colours

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Breeders and fanciers of chickens accurately describe the colours and patterns of the feathers of chicken breeds and varieties. This is a list of the terms used in this context.

Self

Self-coloured chickens are those which display one solid colour without patterning of any kind.

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Black	[[File:Spanierhuhn (cropped).JPG	200px]]	[[File:Orpington chicken 2.jpg	200px]]	Green iridescence is desired for "beetle black" show chickens.
Blue	[[File:Blauwe sumatra.jpg	200px]]Sumatra	[[File:Poule_andalouse.jpg	200px]]dark blue-laced Andalusian
Splash or Blue Splashed White	[[File:Splash Sumatra.jpg	200px]]Sumatra	[[File:Poule_Soie_splash.jpg	200px]]Silkie	Splash is the homozygous form of Blue
Buff	[[File:Coq orpington fauve.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Buff Orpington chicken, UK.jpg	200px]]
Lavender	[[File:Orpington lavande.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Pekin bantam female.JPG	200px]]Red lavender
Red	[[File:Poule Sabelpoot rouge (1).jpg	200px]]	[[File:Amberbock.jpg	200px]]	Red is the intensified version of Buff
White	[[File:Chicken in Finland.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Silky bantam.jpg	200px]] Silkie

Barred and cuckoo

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Barred	[[File:Barred Plymouth Rock Rooster.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Miss peck2.jpg	200px]] Barred Rock Hen	Divided into Dark and Light in Australian Plymouth Rocks
Crele	[[File:Bielefelder-kennhuhn.jpg	200px]]		The cuckoo pattern with black-breasted red pigmentation
Silver Cuckoo		[[File:Cuckoo Marans.jpg	200px]]
Golden Cuckoo

Columbian, belted

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
White Columbian	[[File:-2019-01-29 Light Sussex Large cockrill, Trimingham.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Sundheimer Glucke mit Küken.jpg	200px]]Sundheimer	Called 'light' in the Brahma and Sussex
Buff Columbian	[[File:Bantam Rooster.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Hedemorahöna Gammlia 2007-06-24.jpg	200px]]
Golden Belted	[[File:Coq vorwerk.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Poule vorwerk SIA.jpg	200px]]	Belted resembles Columbian but the head and neck are solid black, not merely striped
Silver Belted	[[File:Châtelais - La Petite Couère 063 (cropped).jpg	200px]]	[[File:Poule Lakenfelder.jpg	200px]]

Duckwing

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Golden Duckwing	[[File:Blonder Italiener.JPG	200px]]
Blue Golden Duckwing
Silver Duckwing	[[File:1,0 Kraienkopp cropped.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Dorking Henne.JPG	200px]]
Blue Silver Duckwing
Fawn Silver Duckwing	[[File:FawnSilverDutch.jpg	200px]]

Laced

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Black Laced			not used; black-laced plumage is named after the red series colour instead: "golden laced" for black and red, "citron laced" for black and buff, "silver laced" for black and white
Blue Laced	[[File:Andalusian Blue chicken (male).jpg	200px]]	[[File:Andalusian gallus (hen).jpg	200px]]
Blue Laced Red	[[File:2014nr124 – RGZV Frankenthal IMG022 – 0,1 Indische Zwerg-Kämpfer, blau-fasanenbraun (cut out).jpg	200px]]	[[File:Midge01cropped.jpg	200px]]
Buff Laced	[[File:Poule padoue polish chicken.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Padoue dorée à liserés blancs.jpg	200px]]	also known as Chamois
Golden Laced	[[File:Sebright Cock.jpg	200px]]Sebright	[[File:Poule Sebright Dorée.jpg	200px]]
Silver Laced	[[File:Silver-laced Wyandotte rooster.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Silver Sebright hen.jpg	200px]]

Pencilled

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Birchen			Sometimes called Grey in Japanese bantams.
Golden Pencilled	[[File:AssendelftersStam.jpg	200px]]
Silver Pencilled	[[File:Coq mouette de la Frise-Orientale.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Cory's chickens 09 - Egyptian Fayoumi pullet (28488787120) (cropped).jpg	200px]]

Mottled, spangled, mille fleur

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Black Mottled	[[File:Poule Pékin noir caillouté blanc (1).jpg	200px]]	[[File:Hens with chicks.jpg	200px]] (chicks other color)
Blue Mottled	[[File:Coq-pékin-bleue-cailloutée SDA2014.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Poule pékin frisée cailloutée bleue.jpg	200px]]
other mottled	[[File:Thüringer Barthuhn (Hahn) (1).jpg	200px]]
red	[[File:Poule Sabelpoot gris-perle caillouté (2).jpg	200px]]
lavender
Citron Spangled	[[File:Ma - Japanese bantam pair - 1.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Citron Spangled Hamburg bantam hen.jpg	200px]]
Golden Spangled	[[File:Tab29 Hühner (Geflügel-Album, Jean Bungartz, 1885).jpg	200px]]
Silver Spangled	[[File:Silver-Spangled Hamburg Sam dinner.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Cory's Silver Spangled Hamburgs, February 2021 (cropped).jpg	200px]]
Mille Fleur	[[File:Hühnerrasse "Orpington".jpg	200px]] mahogany Orpington couple	[[File:Speckled Sussex chick.jpg	200px]] Sussex chick	Called 'speckled' in the Sussex, 'jubilee' in the Orpington.
Lemon Mille Fleur	[[File:Poule Sabelpoot porcelaine citronné (1.1).jpg	200px]]	[[File:Mille Fleur Bantam Hen.jpg	200px]]
Porcelain	[[File:Poule Sabelpoot porcelaine isabelle (1.1).jpg	250px]] lavender porcelain	[[File:Poule Sabelpoot porcelaine isabelle (3).jpg	200px]] lavender porcelain	A diluted version of Mille Fleur

Black-tailed

Colour	Cock	Hen
Black-tailed Buff	[[File:Japanese Bantam cockerel.jpg	200px]]
Black-tailed White	[[File:Pair of Japanese Bantams.jpg	200px]]
Black-tailed red	[[File:Šumava chicken cockerel.jpg	200px]]

Black-breasted

Colour	Cock	Hen
Black Breasted Red	[[File:Black Breasted Red Onagadori.jpg	200px]]
Blue Breasted Red	[[File:Toulouse - Gallus gallus - 2012-02-29 - 3.jpg	200px]]
Partridge	[[File:CSN 179.jpg	200px]]
Wheaten	[[File:Fro1.jpg	200px]]
Blue Wheaten

Others

Colour	Cock	Hen	Notes
Brassy Back
Blue Brassy Back
Blue Light Brown
Blue-red
Brown
Brown Red			Sometimes called Gold Birchen.
Coloured
Coronation
Cream Light Brown	[[File:Orangehalsiger Onagadorihahn.jpg	200px]]
Dark brown
Exchequer			only in the Leghorn
Ginger Red
Golden Neck
Golden-necked mille fleur
Gray
Lemon Blue
Light Brown
Pyle			Alternatively spelt Pile.
Red Pyle	[[File:1.0 Deutsches Zwerghuhn Rotgesattelt.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Combattant anglais moderne pile 1.jpg	200px]]
Quail	[[File:1,0 Antwerpener Bartzwerg - wachtelfarbig.jpg	200px]]	[[File:0,1 Antwerpener Bartzwerg - wachtelfarbig.jpg	200px]]
Salmon	[[File:Vogelpark Viernheim Hahn Deutsches Lachshuhn 2012.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Aufmerksame Henne Deutsches Lachshuhn 2012 Vogelpark Viernheim.JPG	200px]]
Silver Blue	[[File:Marans-Junghahn-Silber-Blau 2009.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Marans-Junghenne-Silber-Blau 2009.jpg	200px]]
Silver Gray	[[File:Dorking Hahn.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Dorking Henne.JPG	200px]]
Splash	[[File:Splash Sumatra.jpg	200px]]	[[File:Splash Brahma hen - South Korea.jpg	200px]]
Tolbunt			Seen only in Polish chickens
White Laced Red
Chocolate	[[File:GamefowlExpoManilajf1906 16.JPG	200px]]	[[File:Zijdehoen (7440543236).jpg	200px]]	Rare; bred in Orpington bantams in the 1990s

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120606061742/http://professorchickenscolours.webs.com/wheaten.htm All About Chickens: All the chicken colours under the sun]. Archived 6 June 2012.
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W.C. Carefoot (1996). [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00071669608417915 Chocolate: A sex‐linked recessive plumage colour mutant of the domestic fowl]. ''British Poultry Science''. '''37''' (4): 867–868. {{doi. 10.1080/00071669608417915.
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Lewis Wright (1902). [https://archive.org/details/cu31924003073248 ''The New Book of Poultry. With Forty-Five Plates, by J.W. Ludlow, and the Poultry Club Standards of Perfection for the Various Breeds'']. London; Paris; New York; Melbourne: Cassell and Company.

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