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Breeders and fanciers of chickens accurately describe the colours and patterns[1] of the feathers of chicken breeds and varieties. This is a list of the terms used in this context.

Self

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Self-coloured chickens are those which display one solid colour without patterning of any kind.

Colour Cock Hen Notes
Black Green iridescence is desired for "beetle black" show chickens.
Blue
Sumatra

dark blue-laced Andalusian
Splash or Blue Splashed White
Sumatra

Silkie
Splash is the homozygous form of Blue
Buff
Lavender
Red lavender
Red Red is the intensified version of Buff
White Silkie

Barred and cuckoo

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Barred Barred Rock Hen Divided into Dark and Light in Australian Plymouth Rocks
Crele The cuckoo pattern with black-breasted red pigmentation
Silver Cuckoo
Golden Cuckoo

Columbian, belted

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
White Columbian
Sundheimer
Called 'light' in the Brahma and Sussex[2]
Buff Columbian
Golden Belted Belted resembles Columbian but the head and neck are solid black, not merely striped
Silver Belted
cock and hen

chick

Duckwing

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Golden Duckwing
Blue Golden Duckwing
Silver Duckwing
Blue Silver Duckwing
Fawn Silver Duckwing

Laced

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Black Laced not used; black-laced plumage is named after the red series colour instead: "golden laced" for black and red, "citron laced" for black and buff, "silver laced" for black and white
Blue Laced
Blue Laced Red
Buff Laced also known as Chamois[3]: 447 
Golden Laced
Sebright
Silver Laced

Pencilled

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Birchen Sometimes called Grey in Japanese bantams.
Golden Pencilled
Silver Pencilled

Mottled, spangled, mille fleur

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Blue Mottled
Citron Spangled
Golden Spangled
Silver Spangled
Mille Fleur Called 'speckled' in the Sussex.
Lemon Mille Fleur
Porcelain A diluted version of Mille Fleur

Black-tailed

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Black-tailed Buff
Black-tailed White
Black-tailed red

Black-breasted

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Black Breasted Red
Blue Breasted Red
Partridge
Wheaten
Blue Wheaten

Others

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Colour Cock Hen Notes
Brassy Back
Blue Brassy Back
Blue Light Brown
Blue-red
Brown
Brown Red Sometimes called Gold Birchen.
Coloured
Coronation
Cream Light Brown
Dark brown
Exchequer only in the Leghorn[4]: 187 
Ginger Red
Golden Neck
Golden-necked mille fleur
Gray
Lemon Blue
Light Brown
Pyle Alternatively spelt Pile.
Red Pyle
Quail
Salmon
Silver Blue
Silver Gray
Splash
Tolbunt Seen only in Polish chickens
White Laced Red
Chocolate Rare; bred in Orpington (chicken bantams in the 1990s[2]: 163 [5]

References

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  1. ^ All About Chickens: All the chicken colours under the sun. Archived 6 June 2012.
  2. ^ a b David Scrivener (2014). Popular Poultry Breeds. Ramsbury: Crowood. ISBN 9781847979711.
  3. ^ Lewis Wright (1902). The New Book of Poultry. With Forty-Five Plates, by J.W. Ludlow, and the Poultry Club Standards of Perfection for the Various Breeds. London; Paris; New York; Melbourne: Cassell and Company.
  4. ^ J. Ian H. Allonby, Philippe B. Wilson (editors) (2018). British Poultry Standards: complete specifications and judging points of all standardized breeds and varieties of poultry as compiled by the specialist breed clubs and recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain, seventh edition. Chichester; Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119509141.
  5. ^ W.C. Carefoot (1996). Chocolate: A sex‐linked recessive plumage colour mutant of the domestic fowl. British Poultry Science. 37 (4): 867–868. doi:10.1080/00071669608417915.