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Chabo
The Japanese Bantam or Chabo ( ja, 矮鶏) is a Japanese breed of ornamental chicken. It is a true bantam breed, meaning that it has no large fowl counterpart. It characterised by very short legs (the result of hereditary chondrodystrophy) and a large upright tail that reaches much higher than the head of the bird. History The origin of the Chabo is unknown. Mitochondrial DNA evidence suggests that it, and all other Japanese breeds of ornamental chicken, derived through selective breeding from fighting chickens, the ancestors of the modern Shamo breeds. The earliest recognisable depiction of a Chabo in Japanese art dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century; a short-legged chicken with tall upright tail shown in the ''Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer'' by Jan Steen, painted in about 1660, is believed to be a Chabo. Japan was effectively closed to all foreign trade from 1636 until about the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The first documented exports o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silkie
The Silkie (also known as the Silky or Chinese silk chicken) is a breed of chicken named for its atypically fluffy plumage, which is said to feel like silk and satin. The breed has several other unusual qualities, such as black skin and bones, blue earlobes, and five toes on each foot, whereas most chickens only have four. They are often exhibited in poultry shows, and also appear in various colors. In addition to their distinctive physical characteristics, Silkies are well known for their calm, friendly temperament. It is among the most docile of poultry. Hens are also exceptionally broody, and care for young well. Although they are fair layers themselves, laying only about three eggs a week, they are commonly used to hatch eggs from other breeds and bird species due to their broody nature. History It is unknown exactly where or when these fowl with their singular combination of attributes first appeared, but the most well documented point of origin is ancient China. Other pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creeper Chickens
Creeper chickens are characterised by abnormally short legs, so short that the body is carried a few centimetres from the ground. This chondrodystrophy (dwarfism) is caused by a recessive lethal allele, ''Cp''. A number of breeds display the characteristic, among them the Chabo and Jitokku breeds of Japan, the Courte-pattes of France, the Krüper of Germany, the Luttehøns of Denmark, and the Scots Dumpy. History Creeper chickens have been known and described since Renaissance times at least. They have been called by many names, among them bakies, brevicrews, corlaighs, crawlers, creepers, creepies, dumpfries, dumpies and jumpers. In his ''The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication'' of 1868, Charles Darwin writes that creeper chickens were among the types described in a Chinese encyclopaedia compiled from earlier sources and published in 1596. The creeper was described and illustrated in the ''Monstrorum Historia'' of the Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Ald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creeper Gene
Creeper chickens are characterised by abnormally short legs, so short that the body is carried a few centimetres from the ground. This chondrodystrophy (dwarfism) is caused by a recessive lethal allele, ''Cp''. A number of breeds display the characteristic, among them the Chabo and Jitokku breeds of Japan, the Courte-pattes of France, the Krüper of Germany, the Luttehøns of Denmark, and the Scots Dumpy. History Creeper chickens have been known and described since Renaissance times at least. They have been called by many names, among them bakies, brevicrews, corlaighs, crawlers, creepers, creepies, dumpfries, dumpies and jumpers. In his ''The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication'' of 1868, Charles Darwin writes that creeper chickens were among the types described in a Chinese encyclopaedia compiled from earlier sources and published in 1596. The creeper was described and illustrated in the ''Monstrorum Historia'' of the Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Ald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken Breeds
There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence. Domesticated for thousands of years, distinguishable breeds of chicken have been present since the combined factors of geographical isolation and selection for desired characteristics created regional types with distinct physical and behavioral traits passed on to their offspring. The physical traits used to distinguish chicken breeds are size, plumage color, comb type, skin color, number of toes, amount of feathering, egg color, and place of origin. They are also roughly divided by primary use, whether for eggs, meat, or ornamental purposes, and with some considered to be dual-purpose. In the 21st century, chickens are frequently bred according to predetermined breed standards set down by governing organizations. The first of such standards was the British Poultry Standard, which is still in publication today. Other standards include the Standard of Perfection, the Australian Poultry Standard, and the standard of the American B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal Palace Poultry Show
The Crystal Palace Poultry Show (variously also the International Poultry Show and Great Poultry Show) was a poultry show held at The Crystal Palace in London in the United Kingdom. They ran from 1857–1936, with interruption by World War I. It was the world's largest poultry exhibition at several times in its existence, considered the pinnacle of poultry exhibition in the British Empire and despite being a poultry show also allowed the exhibition of domestic rabbits. It was hosted by the Grand International Poultry, Pigeon and Live Stock Shows, Ltd which was liquidated in 1964. The show was superseded in its role by the International Poultry Show, Olympia which has also ceased to exist since. History In 1860 the first Sebastopol Goose in Western Europe, imported from Crimea, were exhibited at the show by H. Bayley. In 1861 the Secretary of the show was a Mr Houghton In 1872 50 tons of coal were spent to heat the building and two tons of food was fed to birds exhibited over the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantam Chicken Breeds
Bantam or Bantams may refer to: * Bantam (poultry), any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck Businesses * Bantam Books, an American publishing house * Bantam Cider, an American cider company * Bantam Press, a British publishing imprint * American Bantam, a 1935 car company, formerly American Austin Car Company Military * Bantam (military), a soldier shorter than 5'3" in the First World War **143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF **216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF * Bantam (missile), a Swedish 1950s anti-tank missile * BAT Bantam, a British 1920s biplane fighter aircraft * Northrop X-4 Bantam, an American prototype small twinjet aircraft * Douglas A-4 Skyhawk light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber Places * Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town in Java, Indonesia ** Banten Sultanate, or Bantam, 1527–1813 ** Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate * Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands * Bantam, Connecticu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hen-feathered
Hen feathering in cocks is the occurrence of a genetically conditioned character in domestic fowl (''Gallus gallus domesticus''). Males with this condition develop a female-type plumage, although otherwise look and respond as virile males. Hen-feathering in cocks is one of the typical characteristics of the Sebright Bantam, a breed established circa 1810, in accordance with the intentions of its creator, Sir John Saunders Sebright. Sexual dimorphism in plumage is very common in birds, particularly within Phasianidae where males are bigger and have brighter and more colorful plumage than females among other morphological differences. Cocks with hen-feathering Males of most chicken breeds distinguish from their females in having longer, sharp and more scalloped feathers in neck, hackle, saddle and wing bows. But in some breeds, like the fancy breeds Sebright and Campine and some game breeds like Pettai Madhirione can see males that have a plumage completely similar in all asp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frizzle (chicken Plumage)
A frizzle refers to a plumage pattern in domesticated chickens (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') characterized by feathers that curl outwards, rather than lying flat as in most chickens. The frizzle type is not a separate breed, but a variety within breeds. Though all breeds of chickens may be frizzled; it is most commonly seen in breeds such as the Cochin, Pekin, and Polish. Chickens with this pattern are sometimes referred to as frizzles. The gene which causes the frizzles' peculiar feathering is an incomplete dominant trait. Uses As a result of its unusual look, frizzles are primarily used as exhibition birds, and are included in most English language poultry standards Poultry () are domestication, domesticated birds kept by humans for their egg (food) , eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the Superorder (biology), superorder Fowl, Galloanserae (fowl), especially the .... There is a pure breed of chicken with this feature, known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poultry Association
The American Poultry Association (APA) is the oldest poultry organization in the North America. It was founded in 1873, and incorporated in Indiana in 1932. The first American poultry show was held in 1849, and the APA was later formed in response to the burgeoning need for an overseeing body to set standards for poultry breeds and to administer judging. A year after its foundation, the Association published the first ''American Standard of Perfection'', which to this day is the most widely used and respected handbook on poultry breed standards. The APA continues to publish and expand the ''Standard'', and aims to promote all aspects of poultry fancy by certifying official judges, sponsoring shows, fostering youth participation, and advocating for its members, in both the U.S. and Canada. The Poultry Standard of Perfection Once the APA was formed in 1849, they made it their first order of business to create a standard for American poultry breeds. Six members from the original m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entente Européenne
Entente, meaning a diplomatic "understanding", may refer to a number of agreements: History * Entente (alliance), a type of treaty or military alliance where the signatories promise to consult each other or to cooperate with each other in case of a crisis or military action * Entente Cordiale (1904) between France and the United Kingdom * Anglo-Russian Entente (1907) between the United Kingdom and Russia * Triple Entente, an informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic and Great Britain, built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance (1894), the Entente Cordiale (1904), and the Anglo-Russian Entente (1907) ** Allies of World War I, sometimes referred to as "The Entente", "The Entente Powers", or "The Entente Forces" * Little Entente (1920–1938), between Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia * Balkan Entente (1934–1938), between Greece, Turkey, Romania and Yugoslavia * Baltic Entente (1934–1939), between Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Chicken Colours
Breeders and fanciers of chickens accurately describe the colours and patterns of the feathers of chicken breeds and varieties. This is a list of the terms used in this context. Self Self chickens are one-coloured, i.e. lacking a ''pattern''. Show quality strains may have even pigmentation throughout the outer plumage, production or pet quality strains are likely to not. Barred and cuckoo Columbian, belted Duckwing Laced Pencilled Mottled, spangled, mille fleur Black-tailed Black-breasted Others References See also * Equine coat colour * List of poultry feathers * Lavender (chicken plumage) * Solid black (chicken plumage) * Solid white (chicken plumage) {{chicken Chickens Bird colours Chicken plumage patterns Poultry Chicken The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterozygous
Zygosity (the noun, zygote, is from the Greek "yoked," from "yoke") () is the degree to which both copies of a chromosome or gene have the same genetic sequence. In other words, it is the degree of similarity of the alleles in an organism. Most eukaryotes have two matching sets of chromosomes; that is, they are diploid. Diploid organisms have the same loci on each of their two sets of homologous chromosomes except that the sequences at these loci may differ between the two chromosomes in a matching pair and that a few chromosomes may be mismatched as part of a chromosomal sex-determination system. If both alleles of a diploid organism are the same, the organism is homozygous at that locus. If they are different, the organism is heterozygous at that locus. If one allele is missing, it is hemizygous, and, if both alleles are missing, it is nullizygous. The DNA sequence of a gene often varies from one individual to another. These gene variants are called alleles. While some gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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