Chicken Breeds T-shirts

Brahma Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Brahmas are large, gentle chickens which are well liked for exhibition show birds, lay nice brown eggs, provide good meat, and are beautifully colored. They also make good broody fowl.

New Hampshire Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The New Hampshire breed was created from selected matings of Rhode Island Reds and is an excellent multi-purpose chicken. The hens are good layers of brown eggs, they make good table and show fowl.

Lakenvelder Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Lakenvelders hail from The Netherlands, where they were bred to be attractive laying fowl. Their nickname is the Dutch Every Day Layer.

White Crested Black Polish Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Polish are also known as "top hat" chickens due to the elongated head feathers which grow into a topknot on their heads. They have a bony growth above the nostrils, which are themselves oversized.

Spangled Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Spangled Old English Game bantams are very colorful chickens, even the hens are quite pretty. Most of the feathers are tri-colored.

Feather Legged Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The feather-legged breeds represented here are the Cochin, Silkie and Brahma. They make fascinating additions to the show room or backyard.

Blue Polish Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Polish chickens are bred in a number of interesting colors...often with a white crest (there is also a black-crested white variety). Blue is a heterozygous result from mating blacks and whites.

Nankin Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Nankin Bantam comes both rose combed, like this pair, or single combed. In color, they much resemble the New Hampshire Red fowl, in reds and golds and touches of black.

White Leghorn Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Leghorns are the premier egg laying chicken breed and the whites are the most popular color. The rich red comb and wattles provide a great contrast to the snowy white plumage.

Also available Red Leghorn, Buff Leghorn, Exchecker Leghorn, and Brown Leghorn.

Quail d'Anvers Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The d'Anvers bantam sports a full bushy beard and muffs, full and arched neck, and proud station for such a little bird. The Quail seems to be the most popular color in the U.S.

Buff Cochin Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The golden yellow Buff Cochin fowl is a long time favorite exhibition poultry breed of distinction. Both rooster and hen shine like a gold coin in the sun.

Partridge Silkies Clothing & Gifts

Partridge Silkies are colored in lovely shades of browns and reds. They share the typical Silkie traits of very black eyes and skin, five toes, and leg feathering. Some have beards and muffs.

Rhode Island Reds Clothing & Gifts

Rhode Island Reds are an all-American favorite. These multi-purpose fowl lay good sized brown eggs and are big enough for the family table.

Light Brahma Pair Clothing & Gifts

Brahma chickens, as a group, are stately fowl in stature and also particularly easy going, making them a great addition to any family flock. Light Brahmas show the typical Columbian color pattern.

Buttercup Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Sicilian Buttercup is a Mediterranean chicken breed sporting an unusual bowl-shaped comb, surrounded by numerous points.

Red Junglefowl Rooster Clothing & Gifts

The Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus bankiva) is noted as the ancestor of most, if not all, of our domesticated chickens.Genetic testing may indicate whether other species are involved.

Black Silkie Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Silkie bantam chickens have a very unusual soft fluffy feather type. They also have very dark skin and five toes on each foot.

Salmon Faverolles Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Faverolles are an attractive French dual-purpose chicken of which the most popular color is probably the salmon. They sport five toes on each foot, as well as a full beard and muffs on the face.

Ameraucana Chickens Clothing & Gifts

A home flock of Ameraucanas and Araucanas will lay eggs in a variety of colors...no need to decorate them for Easter! Technically, the Araucanas are tailless and have ear tufts.

Dominique Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Dominiques are a good dual-purpose chicken that was developed in the New England states many years ago. They lay brown eggs and make an attractive yard fowl showing nicely contrasting markings.

Silkies Clothing & Gifts

Here we have a lovely trio of Silkie bantams...blue, black, and white. Silkies sport a crest, feathered legs, five toes and may or may not have a full beard and muffs.

Buff Columbian Wyandottes Clothing & Gifts

The base color of buff columbian chickens is a beautiful rich, golden buff. They have black tails and black striping in the hackle and saddle feathers.

Golden Pheonix Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Phoenix is one of several types of long-tailed fowl from Japan. This breed has a single comb and pheasantlike body shape. They also come in a silver variety.

Black Tailed White Japanese Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The little Japanese bantams are popular show birds. A really distinctive breed of poultry from Japan, they have fans all over the world.

White Silkies Clothing & Gifts

The Silkie's soft, hairlike plumage is due to the feathers not having barbs. They also have very dark skin and five toes on each foot, instead of the usual four.

Buff Brahma Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Brahmas and bantam Brahmas are popular chickens, recognized in several colors in the U.S. and worldwide. The buffs are a bright golden color with black in the tail, footings, hackle and saddle.

Buff Orpingtons Clothing & Gifts

Buff Orpingtons were developed in England as a good dual-purpose fowl but they also make gorgeous exhibition chickens.

Gold Duckwing Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Duckwings are named for the bluish-black wing bar which reminds one of the blue wing speculum of the wild Mallard Duck.

Silver Sebright Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Sebrights are one of the smallest of all bantams. The males are henny feathered with no pointed sex feathers. They are popular showbirds.

Dorking Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Dorking is an ancient chicken breed which traces its ancestry possibly back to the Roman invasion of the U.K. These long bodied fowl also sport five toes on each foot.

Ginger Red Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The male Ginger Red Old English Game bantam is a flashy orange red...his mate is more muted in color but still very pretty.

Birchen Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Birchen Old English Game bantam is a study in black and white, from the fine white lacing on black breasts to black striped hackles and saddles.

Black Cochin Pair Clothing & Gifts

Black Cochins are arguably the most popular color of this beautiful fluffy fowl. Cochins, especially the bantams, have always been favorites of chicken breeders.

Columbian Wyandottes Clothing & Gifts

Wyandottes and Wyandotte bantams are robust chickens which make a nice family and yard fowl. They are attractively colored, lay brown eggs, and can feed the family.

Silver-lace Wyandottes Clothing & Gifts

Silver-lace has a base color of silvery white, with most of the birds' feathers being laced with lustrous black. Wyandottes are popular all around family chickens that lay good brown eggs.

Golden-laced Cochin Rooster & Hen Clothing & Gifts

Golden-laced Cochins are beautiful chickens, whether they be bantams or the large variety. Most of the feathers are exquisitely laced with glossy, greenish black, the rest is golden bay.

Russian Orloff Clothing & Gifts

The Russian Orloff is an attractive chicken sporting a full beard and muffs on the face. The spangled variety has every feather with a white tip and black bar separating the white from the rest.

Dutch Bantam Rooster Clothing & Gifts

Dutch bantams are stylish little chickens bred in a variety of attractive colors. They are becoming quite popular as exhibition birds.

Norwegian Jaerhons Clothing & Gifts

Now here is an interesting and colorful breed of poultry from Norway. The Jaerhons is an auto-sexed chicken...in other words, you can sex the chicks by color as soon as they are hatched.

Welsummer Rooster & Hen Clothing & Gifts

The Welsummer is a Dutch breed that almost went extinct during WWII but has been revitalized and is gaining popularity due to its large dark brown eggs.

Silver Kraienkoppe Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Kraienkoppes have a style all their own. These are the silver variety. Belgium is the home of the Kraienkoppe and many other unique breeds of chickens.

Light Brahma Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Brahma chickens, as a group, are stately fowl in stature and also particularly easy going, making them a great addition to any family flock. Light Brahmas show the typical Columbian color pattern.

Australorp Clothing & Gifts

Australorps are production type Orpington chickens developed in Australia. They are good layers and also carry enough meat on them to supply the family table.

Wheaten Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Wheaten hens are a very soft, light creamy color...the roosters are the opposite...a flashy fiery reddish gold on the hackle and saddle feathers.

Kraienkoppe Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Kraienkoppe Chickens on t-shirts & gifts.

Golden Campine Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Campine is related to the Braekel of Belgium. Both have plumage with either a silver or golden (as here) base, with all the feathers except the neck barred with black.

Plymouth Rock Rooster & Hen Clothing & Gifts

The Plymouth Rock is probably America's favorite all-purpose fowl. These chickens lay brown eggs and are big enough to be a good table bird.

Partridge Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Partridge Bantams on t-shirts & gifts.

Golden-lace Cochin Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Cochin bantams rate among the most popular of exhibition chickens and it is easy to see why! Cochin bantams are called "Pekins" in the United Kingdom.

Silver-laced Cochin Rooster & Hen Clothing & Gifts

This Cochin color variety has both cock and hen distinctively laced black on white. Chickens with this pattern are very eye catching. They are a lovely fowl for home and garden.

Blue Mille Fleur d'Uccles Clothing & Gifts

This is the blue version of the Mille Fleur (thousand flowers) d'Uccle Belgian bantam. Blue replaces the black feathering.

Buff Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Buff Old English bantams should have a uniform tone of golden buff over the plumage, with extra gloss on the hackles and saddles.

Black Tail Buff Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Black-tailed Buff Old English Game Bantam shows yet another new color and pattern in this very popular breed of chicken. Probably introduced from the Japanese Bantam.

White Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The white Old English Game bantam should not have even a speck of any other color on its white coat of feathers. They are white as snow.

Cuckoo Old English Pair Clothing & Gifts

The plucky little Old English Game Bantam has fans all over the world. The standards differ a bit from country to country but no matter where they are, they attract a lot of attention.

Blue Red Quill Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Old English Game Bantams are bred in over fifty color varieties and are arguably the most popular bantam breed in the United States.

Silver Ginger Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Silver Ginger Old English Game bantam is marked the same as the Ginger Red except that it lacks the gold or reddening genes so shows only black markings on white. This is one of the newer colors.

Gold Campine Old English Pair Clothing & Gifts

This is one of the newer color varieties of the Old English Game Bantam. The base color is golden bay with all but the hackle feathers being striped with black bars.

Blue Ginger Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Blue Gingers are one of many color varieties available in the Old English Game bantam breed. Blue replaces black. The baby chicks hatch in three colors.

Brown Red Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

This is the red version of the birchen Old English Game bantam.

Brassy Back Old English Pair Clothing & Gifts

The Brassy Back is one of up to fifty or so colors of Old English Game bantams. Some are recognized, like the Brassy Back, others are new and as yet not standard.

Blue Gold Duckwing Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Bluish slate replaces the black on the Blue Golden Duckwing Old English Game bantam. The baby chicks hatch in three colors.

Blue Brassy Back Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Blue does for the Brassy Back what it does for other Old English colors...it dilutes the black areas to a greyish color.

Buff Columbian Old English Pair Clothing & Gifts

Buff Columbian is one of the newer Old English Game bantam colors. It should be marked just like a buff Brahma.

Blue Quail Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Old English Game Bantam is probably the most popular exhibition chicken in the world. The blue quail is one of the newer colors available.

Pearl Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The pearl Old English Game bantam's base color is self blue, marked like a mottle with white tips on most of the feathers.

Black Tail Red Old English Pair Clothing & Gifts

Black-tailed Red Old English Game Bantams should be the same color as a Rhode Island Red...a deep black cherry red with black tails. The red should be glossy.

Mottled Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Mottled Old English Game bantams are shiny black with many of the feathers tipped with white.

Golden-laced English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

The Golden-laced Old English Game bantam is colored and marked the same as the Golden Sebright.

Black Sex-linked Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Being able to sex baby chicks at hatching by color is a great advantage to the breeder. One doesn't have to wait for the chicks to grow up before holding back pullets or cockerels as needed.

Chocolate Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Chocolate Old English Game bantams are a result of adding the fawn gene to black. Mating chocolate to chocolate results in chicks of three different colors...fawn, black, and chocolate.

Easter Egg Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Ameraucanas are often called "Easter egg" chickens for their multi-colored eggs which may be blue, green, olive, or brownish. They come in a palette of feather colors too.

Buff Silkies Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Buff is but one color in the Silkie family. Silkies sport the most unusual feathers, they feel much like soft hair and it is due to the lack of barbules.

Mille Fleur Dutch Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Dutch Bantams are stylish little birds. These are mille fleurs (thousand flowers) with each feather tipped in white.

La Fleche Chickens Clothing & Gifts

La Fleche are a dual purpose (eggs and meat) fowl originating in the La Sarthe valley of France. They sport a v-shaped comb, lay white eggs, and have a very good quality white meat.

Crele or Dom Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Creles or Doms are one of the most colorful of all the Old English Game Bantam family. The cock has beautiful barring...the hen is barred too but her bars are more muted.

Mille Fleur Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts

Fawn Duckwing Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Fawn Silver Duckwings show the diluting influence of the fawn gene and also lack the reds and golds of the golden duckwing.

Buckeye Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Buckeye is a good, active, fleshy multi-purpose breed, made in America and standardized in 1904. Cornish, Cochin, Gamefowl, and Plymouth Rock are all in its breed makeup.

Gold Brabanters Clothing & Gifts

Gold Brabanters have a reddish bay ground color, attractively marked with black, with black beards on their faces.

Red Broiler Chickens Clothing & Gifts

Broiler chickens are bred to mature quickly and are butchered at an early age for their market qualities. Most broiler types are feathered in black, red, or white.

Also available: Black broiler and White broiler.

Appenzeller Spitzhauben Clothing & Gifts

The Appenzeller Spitzhauben was developed in the Swiss canton of the same name (Appenzell). This is a very pretty chicken with a mohawk type crest and attractive markings. They lay white eggs.

Buff Catalana Clothing & Gifts

The Catalana is fairly large for a Mediterranian breed, it is hardy and a very good layer of large,white or light shelled eggs...it is popular in Spain, South America and elsewhere.

Partridge Chanteclers Clothing & Gifts

Chanteclers are a creation of crosses of Cornish, Rhode Island Red, white Leghorns and Wyandottes in the province of Quebec, Canada. They are very hardy under extreme conditions.

Also available: Buff Chantelclers.

Barred Hollands Clothing & Gifts

Note that the hen appears darker than the cock...her barring is wider than his. Barred chickens are often used in crosses to produce sex-links. The pullets and cockerels can be selected by color.

Iowa Blue Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Iowa Blue is an example of a multi-purpose chicken (eggs, meat) with an unusual color pattern, birchen. Birchen fowl are black and white with fine lacing on the breast and upper neck.

Java Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Java is a dual-purpose fowl (meat and eggs) whose ancestral stock came from the island of Java. It is rather rarely seen but now being offered at some hatcheries. Shown is the mottle color.

Sultan Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The large Sultan fowl was accepted into the American Standard of Perfection in 1874, the bantams were admitted in 1960. Both make spectacular showbirds.

Derbyshire Redcap Chickens Clothing & Gifts

The Derbyshire Redcap sports a very large rose comb...for exhibition purposes, that comb carries almost half of all show points! Redcaps are a fine utility breed as well.

Whitefaced Spanish Fowl Clothing & Gifts

The Whitefaced Spanish fowl and bantams have extraordinarily large ear lobes which hang below the wattles. The red wattles and comb set the white off nicely.