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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buttercup Chickens Clothing & Gifts The
Sicilian Buttercup is a Mediterranean chicken breed sporting an unusual
bowl-shaped comb, surrounded by numerous points.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buff Orpingtons Clothing & Gifts
Buff Orpingtons were developed in England as a good
dual-purpose fowl but they also make gorgeous exhibition chickens.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Russian Orloff Clothing & GiftsThe 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.
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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.
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Norwegian Jaerhons Clothing & GiftsNow 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kraienkoppe Chickens Clothing & Gifts Kraienkoppe Chickens on t-shirts & gifts.
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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.
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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.
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Partridge Bantams Clothing & Gifts Partridge Bantams on t-shirts & gifts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brown Red Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts This is the red version of the birchen Old English Game bantam.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mottled Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts Mottled Old English Game bantams are shiny black with many of the feathers
tipped with white.
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Golden-laced English Bantams Clothing & Gifts The Golden-laced Old English Game bantam is colored and marked the same as the
Golden Sebright.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mille Fleur Dutch Bantams Clothing & Gifts Dutch Bantams are stylish little birds. These are mille fleurs (thousand
flowers) with each feather tipped in white.
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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.
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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.
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Mille Fleur Old English Bantams Clothing & Gifts
Mille Fleur means "thousand flowers" and is an apt description of this beautiful
Old English bantam color. All the feathers on both cock and hen are tipped with
white.
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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.
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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.
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Gold Brabanters Clothing & Gifts Gold Brabanters have a reddish bay ground color, attractively marked with
black, with black beards on their faces.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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