Rarest breed of chicken in the US?

[Chickielady]

here is one of mine with snowy owls, BTW this watercolor is BIG, like a full sheet of rag, about 2' X 3'

Later~~

 

[fowlman01]

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You can see in this phot, that his earlobes have some white scruffs in them...and very obviously it is winter so the bird is most probably not in breeding plumage and decoration.
What we wonder is: Does the roo form white earlobes in the spring ?

A male chicken's earlobes can become whiter if the bird is under a year old....... as it matures. This bird's earlobes will not become whiter. It does show some white in the lobes though and overall is a good representation of the breed.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

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Very nice!

Walt

 

[growinupinfl]

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I wouldn't call Silkied Ameraucanas a breed, but yes, those are freaky rare.

Only ever saw ONE person post a photo of their own birds from the U.S.

'Tis why I mentioned Oriental Gamefowl, and I think those sort of can fit in there too.

There are reasons why the silkie amerucauna are rare. In all honest if someone tried to give me I would have said no thinking it was disesed. That is until yesterday when i found.out kinda.creep

 

[Pyncheon guy]

Chickielady....I like your Owls very much. We have Snowy Owls around here most of the Winter.

 

[growinupinfl]

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I wouldn't call Silkied Ameraucanas a breed, but yes, those are freaky rare.

Only ever saw ONE person post a photo of their own birds from the U.S.

'Tis why I mentioned Oriental Gamefowl, and I think those sort of can fit in there too.

There are reasons why the silkie amerucauna are rare. In all honest if someone tried to give me I would have said no thinking it was diseased. That is until yesterday when I found out it is an actual "breed". Kind of creepy looking IMO.

Thanks for letting me know though.
Christal

 

[OSUman]

Silkied ameraucanas show the true sense of hidden genes. From what I understand they started when someone ordered splash silkies they have them come out silkied and these project birds have evolved from that.

 

[fowlman01]

There are "silky" Call ducks now.

 

[Robert Blosl]

I saw a picture of a silkie seroma the other day. What is this world coming to. bob

 

[easttxchick]

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I saw some of these at the show in Shawnee-I thought they were pretty cute.

Odd, but cute.