My son wants an "ugly" chicken

[Calmkl]

So my teenaged son is currently googling chickens because he has decided he wants to take an active part in choosing what to add to our flock this spring/summer. He wants in his words an ugly chicken in the flock. So here I am seeking options of breeds or mixes that might fit his category of choice. If you are a breeder who sells hatching eggs or chicks or even pullets please let me know what you have. Or if your just a backyard chicken keeper who has had and interesting mix show up in your flock we would love to see a picture and let us know if there is any chance you'd be willing to sell some little ones. Again we are not actually looking to add to the flock at the moment but are trying to narrow down what we want and who we would like to get them from. Even if you do not have any to breed/sell we would still love to see pictures are your goofiest looking flock members so that my son can see the wonderful variety of chickens that are out there. For context we only have 3, 2 barnyard mixes both barred/cuckoo/ possibly Dominque and, one sweet little Ayam Cemani. So strange color combos would probably work in his mind as well seeing as we tend to lean towards black colored breeds.

This is my son, he would kill me if he knew I was posting this but the chickens love his hair when they are little!

 

[BleuSaphir]

Turkens (Sorry for anyone owning this breed)
These look like Vultures disguised as chickens. Dong Tao is certainly the most ugliest of all breeds and extremely expensive.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

Turkens (Sorry for anyone owning this breed)
These look like Vultures disguised as chickens. Dong Tao is certainly the most ugliest of all breeds and extremely expensive.

I hadn't heard of a Dong tao and just looked it up.....what on earth is wrong with those poor animals . They look like they ran them through a blender!

 

[RosemaryDuck]

The only 'ugly' chicken breeds I can think of (that aren't really ugly to me, but some people may think they are) are Turkens (naked necks) & some types of game chickens (that have super long, unnatural looking legs and tall bodies).

 

[Chookwagn]

Get him an Orpington!

 

[HappyDuckie]

Get him an Orpington!

You did not just say that.

 

[BleuSaphir]

Maybe look into the Naked Chicken!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Naked Necks would probably be the easiest "ugly" to get. I personally love mine, but I can see how some think they're weird.

Here's some of the ones I have as chicks and young adults

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's an example of one of my mixed breeds.

This is Bigfoot, a mix of Mille Fleur D'uccle/OEGB X Silkie.

 

[black_cat]

now that is an ugly chicken, it's comb is so big that it probably can't see anything straight in front of it.

Nature wouldn't produce anything like that, only selected inbreeding so great example.

Uh, what the heck? That is extremely rude of you to say. MysteryChicken is a person who puts tremendous amounts of time and effort into her breeding and her birds, and 'selective inbreeding' is NOT a thing that she does. Clearly, nature produced it, because that is the chick that hatched out of an egg from a hen.