Any breed that is available in "blue" will also have "splash" colored birds. There are too many to list.
by the color and pattern of the feathers
No, a chicken can be of multiple colors depending on the breed.
A chicken is neither a dairy nor a beef breed; it isn't even any kind of cow. A chicken is a bird that has feathers and lays eggs. Cows don't have nor do any of that.
a hard feathered breed of chicken is one with hard feathers Like the Japanese imperial phoenix unlike a Chinese silkie which is a soft feathered breed and is covered in fluff. To tell if it is a hard feathered breed flick the wing.
The number of feathers on a rooster depends on the breed of chicken he comes from. Some are as big as your dog, some are small enough to sit in your palm! Some have less feathers for warmer climates. For example, a Rhode Island Red would have more feathers than a Silkie.
Here is a link to a good chicken breed site.
There is a breed of chicken called SILKIE that have feathers that look like fur or hair. They come in all different colors including shades of brown and black.
An Erminette chicken is a chicken with a gene for black feathers and a gene for white feathers. Since the genes are co-dominant, the Erminette chicken has black and white feathers, rather than one or the other or grey.
I love sticking chicken feathers in my buns. I then proceed to dance... like a chicken with it's head cut off... YEAH!
contour feathers,flight feathers,primary feathers and secondary feathers
Chicken Feathers - 1927 was released on: USA: 27 February 1927
No one is sure why they do - but we can assume that it was a genetic mutation to perhaps keep the eggs safer in the birds' enviroment.