What color is a chicken?

Answer 1

Chickens come in dozens of different colors. There are solid colors - black, blue, splash(white-blue with blue splashes of color), white, buff(yellow), red, lavender, dun, laced blue, etc etc. There are "speckled" colors like "spangled" and "speckled", and pied patterns such as "mottled". There are color patterns like "black-tailed white" and "black-tailed buff." There are feather patterns like "barring" where the color looks like alternating stripes of white and another color on each feather.

To make it even more confusing, colors that are called the same thing in hens and roosters do not always look the same. A wheaten hen for instance is usually a light brown color while a wheaten rooster has bright colors like red and black. There are also different varieties of a color. For example, a blue wheaten has blue where black would be on a regular wheaten.

To get a better idea of the variety of colors, visit a website like Cackle Hatchery or McMurray's Hatchery and browse the pictures they have of the various chicken breeds they sell. However, their birds rarely meet breed/color standards, and many times they have incorrect information. BackYardChickens is a much better, and more reliable resource.

Answer 2

Chickens can come in a variety of colors such as white, red, brown, black, and gray. The color of a chicken's feathers is determined by its breed.

Answer 3

yellow or orange and sometimes red

Answer 4

they are the color you want them to be