Delaware chicken

For the Delaware state bird, see Delaware Blue Hen.
Delaware
A pullet
Conservation status
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • Large fowl: 3.5 kg (8 lb)
    • Bantam: 975 g (34 oz)
  • Female:
    • Large fowl: 2.8 kg (6 lb)
    • Bantam: 850 g (30 oz)
Skin coloryellow
Egg colorbrown
Colorbarred Colombian
Classification
APAAmerican[4]
ABAsingle comb, clean-legged[4]
EEno[5]
PCGBno[6]
  • chicken
A hen

The Delaware is an American breed of chicken with an unusual plumage pattern. It was developed in the state of Delaware in the mid-twentieth century, and was initially known as the Indian River. It was briefly of some importance in the American chicken industry, until it was superseded by the common industrial Cornish Rock cross.

In the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed.[3] It may be kept for meat, for eggs or for showing.

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