Standard Varieties of Chickens:

Ornamental Poultry

The Standard recognizes several varieties of poultry which are purely ornamental in character and purpose. They can not be considered as prolific either for eggs or table purposes, being bred solely for fancy purposes.

FOR FURTHER READING...

The following images come from the FeatherSite, "an on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry". These images point to pages describing interesting varieties of poultry, which may or may not be bred for ornamental purposes. Some pages to visit include the Cubalayas page, the Appenzeller Spitzhauben page, the Araucanas (Easter Egg Chickens) page, the Egyptian Fayoumi (or Bigawi) page,and the The Fabulous Faverolles page.

Image Credits (from left to right): Courtesy of "redrover"; Courtesy of Karen Stone; Courtesy of Barry Koffler; Courtesy of Barry Koffler; Courtesy of British Faverolles Society

Please note: These links point to pages that are being served off of the cyborganic.net web server, which is not officially part of the Chickscope project. Because of this, the pages may be missing or corrupted, and control of this is generally out of the hands of the Chickscope development team.

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