Jersey Giant

Jersey Giant
At the County Fair in Ontario County, New York
Conservation statusLivestock Conservancy: Watch[1]
Country of originUnited States
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    Standard: 13 lb (5.9 kg)[2]
    Bantam: 38 oz (1.1 kg)
  • Female:
    Standard: 10 lb (4.5 kg)
    Bantam: 34 oz (0.96 kg)
Skin coloryellow
Egg colorbrown
Comb typesingle
Classification
APAAmerican[3]
ABAsingle comb, clean legged
PCGBrare soft feather: heavy[4]
A hen
Pullets

The Jersey Giant is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was created in Burlington County, New Jersey, in the late nineteenth century.[5] It is among the heaviest of all chicken breeds.[5]

  1. ^ Conservation priority list: chickens. The Livestock Conservancy. Accessed August 2014.
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  5. ^ a b Jersey Giant Chicken Archived July 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.