Beautiful chickens in backyard is always inspiring for backyard chicken raisers whether for ornamental purpose or keeping them as a pet or for getting eggs and meat from them. As people love their birds and are so much attached with them; they always like to select and raise chicken breeds that have more attractive and have good characteristics as well. A part from some common types of chickens breeds there’re some special and rare chicken’s breeds. Have a look at.
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1 Tortoiseshell Silkie chicken
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2 Lemon Pyle Brahma, a rare chicken breed
This is a large chicken breed which has significant marked and color. This breed lay around 180 eggs per year,here is a collection of rare chicken breeds that have been disappearing from the world, less than ten thousands in numbers which need great attention to preserve them.
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3 Furness rooster!
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4 BeutifulPolish Chicken Breed
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5 Barbu d’Uccle (Belgian breed)
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6 Onagadori
This Japanese breed of chicken was selectively bred to have tail feathers that grow up to 5 meters in length.
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7 Silver Laced Polish
Another variety of Polish chickens, these guys can be used as egg-layers, but they're better suited to be exhibition birds.
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9 Silkie Bantam
This Chinese breed is "the lap-dog of the chicken world," and they have five toes instead of four like most chickens.
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13 Sumatra chicken breed:
The Sumatra chicken is gorgeous with it’s black plumage shimmering beetle green in the sunlinlight. An American heritage chicken breed that is at risk of becoming extinct soon without our help. Save genetic diversity and save our heritage breeds.
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14 Brahma chicken breed
BRAHMA(relatively high body temperature for chickens to lose heat to the air around them. Their respiratory systems are very effective at cooling. They don’t have sweat glands. Chickens’ air sacks allow inhaled air (which is usually cooler than body temperature) to reach deep into the abdomen. Chickens also have a panting mechanism (gular flutter) that evaporates water from the throat and reduces body temperature. feathers act as insulation for keeping heat in, chickens raise their wings to release heat
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15 Blue Cochin Bantam Pullet
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16 A Japanese Chickens
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17 Blue Arpington
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18 Golden Polish
These birds are notable for their large bouffant crest of feathers, which sometimes impedestheir vision.
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19 Ayam Cemani
Almost everything about this gorgeous chicken is black. Seriously. Beneath the black feathers and skin you'll find black-tinted organs and muscles.
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20 Phoenix
The Phoenix was bred as a European counterpart to the Onagadori, an ancient Japanese breed that the Phoenix is descended from.
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22 Frizzle
Well, speaking of flipping the script, how about flipping the feather? The frizzle chicken does just that in a bold move that has most definitely paid off. Flaunting all conventional beauty standards, all of the Frizzle’s feathers point upward, as if to say, ‘up yours, ladies’.
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