page_title: Wyandotte chicken
section_title: Characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Wyandotte chicken / Characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Silver Laced Wyandotte chick (three days old)
context_page_description: The Wyandotte is an American breed of chicken developed in the 1870s. It was named for the indigenous Wyandot people of North America. The Wyandotte is a dual-purpose breed, kept for its brown eggs and its yellow-skinned meat. It is a popular show bird, and has many color variants. It was originally known as the American Sebright.
context_section_description: The Wyandotte is a fairly large bird, but compact and rounded. The weight range is variable but typically 5 ½ to 8 ½ pounds for pullets to cock birds respectively. The breast is deep, full and well rounded. The body of a Wyandotte is described as medium length but very wide, carrying that width across the back and into the tail. It is clean-legged and fairly close-feathered, and has a broad skull with a rose comb. The skin and shanks are yellow, and the ear-lobes, face and wattles are red.
  Silver-laced Wyandotte cocks may occasionally display hen feathering.
caption: Silver-laced chick, three days old
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