Abbreviations for Chicken Breeds, Varieties and Patterns

[Mattsculpt]

I hope this is in the right place.
I'm trying to get together a list of the abbreviations used here for chicken breeds or varieties and patterns. I've pulled and sorted these from this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1638#p1638 and from Chicken Junkie's page. http://chickenjunkie.com/poultry-faq/poultry-acronyms/
If you know more, add them on. Corrections are welcome. Abbreviations for breeds / varieties and patterns only please. Thanks
This is what I have so far;

Chicken Breeds and Varieties

AG - American Game
ANDY - Blue Andalusian
AMER - Ameraucana
BA or LORP - Black Australorp
BCM or FBCM - Black Copper Marans or French Black Copper Marans
BLRW - Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
BO - Buff Orpington
BR or BPR - Barred Rock or Barred Plymouth Rock
BSL - Black Sex Link
CM - Cuckoo Marans
CW - Columbian Wyandotte
CX - Cornish Cross
DB - Dark Brahma
EE - Easter Eggers (Ameraucana Crosses)
FAV - Faverolles
GCM - Golden Cuckoo Marans
GLC - Gold Laced Cochin
GLW - Golden Laced Wyandotte
GPH - Gold Penciled Hamburg
GSL - Gold Sex Link
JBG - Jersey Black Giant
JG - Jersey Giant
ISA - ISA Browns, Hubbard ISA Browns, Hubbard Browns (Institut de Sélection Animale)
LB - Light Brahma
NH - New Hampshire
NHR - New Hampshire Red
OEG - Old English Game (usually standards)
OEGB - Old English Game bantam
PR - Production Red
RIR - Rhode Island Red
RSL - Red Sex Link
SF - Salmon Faverolles
SSH - Silver Spangled Hamburg
SS - Speckled Sussex
SLW - Silver Laced Wyandotte
WCP - White Crested Polish
WCBP - White Crested Black Polish
WFBS - White Faced Black Spanish
WL - White leghorn

Patterns

BBR - Black Breasted Red
BLR - Blue Laced Red
BTB - Black Tailed Buff (usually Japanese bantams)
BTW - Black Tailed White (usually Japanese bantams)
GL - Gold Laced
GP - Gold Penciled
SDW - Silver Duck Wing
SL - Silver Laced
SP - Silver Penciled
SPL - Splash

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Thanks for listing this. I wish there could be an easy place to access this in the learning center. Or is there a "sticky" for the breed section of the forum that could list all of this?

 

[NYREDS]

For what it's worth these "abreviations", while popular here, are not used anywhere else in the poultry world.

 

[Hooligans7]

Mattsculpt, thank you! Here is one you might add:

BS = Black Star. They're egg-laying machines, quite personable and smart, and have attractive iridescent plumage.

 

[Bullitt]

I dislike abbreviations. Sometimes I have to think about what the person is writing about, and sometimes I do not know what the abbreviation stands for. I suppose that is what prompted this list of abbreviations.

I try to avoid abbreviations. I just think it is lazy to use them.

 

[enola]

Abbreviations confuse me too. If at the beginning of the post the original poster (OP) uses the name of the breed, I can usually figure what is being talked about.

 

[Hooligans7]

I dislike abbreviations. Sometimes I have to think about what the person is writing about, and sometimes I do not know what the abbreviation stands for. I suppose that is what prompted this list of abbreviations.

I try to avoid abbreviations. I just think it is lazy to use them.

I'm not a fan of abbreviations either, but they seem to be an increasingly popular and dominant feature in the world we inhabit today. I don't suppose you "tweet" or text much?

Me neither.
Here's a resource that you can use to beat them at their own game — and be as annoying as you wish — http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/Twitter-chat-and-text-messaging-abbreviations

 

[Bullitt]

I'm not a fan of abbreviations either, but they seem to be an increasingly popular and dominant feature in the world we inhabit today. I don't suppose you "tweet" or text much?

Me neither.
Here's a resource that you can use to beat them at their own game — and be as annoying as you wish — http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/Twitter-chat-and-text-messaging-abbreviations

I have sent messages through Twitter. I have not found much need to abbreviate things.

And we wonder why kids can't write these days.

 

[enola]

If someone texts me and can't spell out what they are saying, I delete the text.

Something else that I dislike is posters who don't use any capital letters or punctuation. Don't even get me started on all capital boldfaced letters in posts.

 

[Bullitt]

If someone texts me and can't spell out what they are saying, I delete the text.

Something else that I dislike is posters who don't use any capital letters or punctuation. Don't even get me started on all capital boldfaced letters in posts.

OKAY, I WON'T GET YOU STARTED.