The buttercup chicken, also known as the Sicilian Buttercup, was developed in the 1800′s in Sicily. It is reported that one female and one male were imported to the US later in that century and today’s line remain the direct descendants of the original couple. This line of chicken is rare, beautiful and exhibition worthy, …
Wonder what an Appenzeller Spitzhauben is, and what is curious about it? Then, join the rapidly growing group of people who love this distinctive breed of chicken. Named for its fluffy crest that looks so much like the lacy hats worn by women in the Appenzeller region in Switzerland, the Swiss national chicken is now …
In the mid eighteen hundreds, the popular Ancona chicken was shipped to England out of the originating city of Ancona, Italy. It then made its way to America in the late eighteen hundreds. These busy little chickens are spangled color, coming from the co-mingling of the Original Mottled Leghorn to the Black Leghorn. Their greenish …