Chicken color
White
White hair, feathers, skin, horn or shell. A white coat can still have dark eyes and dark skin; compare albino and leucistic.
318 Chicken breeds list White. It is in a club standard for 286 breeds. At least one club disqualifies it in 11 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept White
| Breed | APA | EE | ABA | PCGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ameraucana | Standard (“White; Splash”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-weizenfarbig”) | Standard (“White; ERMINE AMERAUCANA”) | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaSplash | Standard (“Splash”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaWhite Wheaten | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-weizenfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaErmine | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“ERMINE AMERAUCANA”) | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaLegs and feet | Standard (“SHANKS AND TOES: Slate, bottoms of feet and toes white.; Shanks and Toes: Bluish slate, bottoms of feet and toes white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaEarlobes | Standard (“COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR-LOBES: Very pale, matching color of the skin.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Ancona | Standard (“Single Comb; Rose Comb”) | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; blau-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“Mottled”) | Standard (“(single colour)”) |
| AnconaEarlobes | Standard (“White or creamy-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes white”) |
| AnconaEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: White”) |
| AndalusianEarlobes | Standard (“Ear-lobes: White.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes white”) |
| Araucana | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-goldhalsig; gesperbert; kennfarbig; rotbunt”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white; The pile; The spangled”) |
| AraucanaWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| AraucanaCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| AraucanaCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| AraucanaPyle | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-goldhalsig”) | No ruling | Standard (“The pile”) |
| AraucanaRed Pied | No ruling | Standard (“rotbunt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| AraucanaSpangled | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The spangled”) |
| AraucanaLegs and feet | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Legs in all colours except cuckoo and crele, willow to olive or slate Legs and feet white, with some spotting allowed. Legs and feet white with blue”) |
| Australorp | No ruling | Standard (“weiß; splash”) | No ruling | Standard (“The white”) |
| AustralorpWhite | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | Standard (“The white”) |
| AustralorpSplash | No ruling | Standard (“splash”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| AustralorpSkin and scales | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Skin white”) |
| Barnevelder | No ruling | Standard (“silber-schwarzdoppeltgesäumt; weiß; silber-perlgraudoppeltgesäumt; kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Brahma | Standard (“Light; Dark”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia; weiß; weiß-blaucolumbia; silberfarbig-gebändert; gesperbert; schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“Light; White; Dark”) | Standard (“The light; The white; The blue-light; The dark”) |
| BrahmaLight | Standard (“Light”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Light”) | Standard (“The light”) |
| BrahmaDark | Standard (“Dark”) | Standard (“silberfarbig-gebändert”) | Standard (“Dark”) | Standard (“The dark”) |
| BrahmaCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| BrahmaBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| BrahmaWhite | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| BrahmaBlue Light | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | Standard (“The blue-light”) |
| Catalana | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Cochin | Standard (“White; Silver Laced; Columbian; Splash; Barred; Mottled”) | Standard (“weiß; silber-schwarzgesäumt; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; splash; weiß-blaucolumbia; schwarz-weißgescheckt; gelbsperber; gelb-gesperbert; gesperbert”) | Standard (“White; Silver Laced; Columbian; Splash; Barred; Mottled”) | Standard (“The white; The black mottled”) |
| CochinWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| CochinBarred | Standard (“Barred”) | No ruling | Standard (“Barred”) | No ruling |
| CochinSilver Laced | Standard (“Silver Laced”) | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver Laced”) | No ruling |
| CochinColumbian | Standard (“Columbian”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Columbian”) | No ruling |
| CochinBlack Mottled | Standard (“Mottled”) | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“Mottled”) | Standard (“The black mottled”) |
| CochinSplash | Standard (“Splash”) | Standard (“splash”) | Standard (“Splash”) | No ruling |
| CochinBuff Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gelbsperber; gelb-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinBlue Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“blau-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinBuff Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinPorcelain | No ruling | Standard (“gold-blauporzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinMille Fleur | No ruling | Standard (“gold-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinSalmon | No ruling | Standard (“lachsfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinLavender Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinLavender Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinChocolate Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schokoladenbraun-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinBlue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Cornish | Standard (“White; White Laced Red; Mottled; Spangled”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-fasanenbraun (Jubilee); weiß-fasanenbraun; rot-weißgesäumt”) | Standard (“White; Columbian; Silver Laced; White Laced Red; Mottled; Spangled; Jubilee”) | No ruling |
| CornishWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | No ruling |
| CornishWhite Laced Red | Standard (“White Laced Red”) | Standard (“rot-weißgesäumt”) | Standard (“White Laced Red”) | No ruling |
| CornishMottled | Standard (“Mottled”) | No ruling | Standard (“Mottled”) | No ruling |
| CornishSpangled | Standard (“Spangled”) | No ruling | Standard (“Spangled”) | No ruling |
| CornishJubilee | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-fasanenbraun (Jubilee); weiß-fasanenbraun”) | Standard (“Jubilee”) | No ruling |
| CornishColumbian | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Columbian”) | No ruling |
| CornishSilver Laced | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Silver Laced”) | No ruling |
| Delaware | Standard (“Only One Variety”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia-gesperbert”) | Standard (“Barred as in Delaware”) | No ruling |
| Dominique | Standard (“Only One Variety”) | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Barred as in Dominique”) | Standard (“(single colour, no variety name)”) |
| Dorking | Standard (“Rose Comb White; Rose Comb Cuckoo; Single Comb Cuckoo”) | Standard (“weiß; gesperbert”) | Standard (“Rose Comb White; Rose Comb Cuckoo”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| DorkingWhite | Standard (“Rose Comb White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“Rose Comb White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| DorkingCuckoo | Standard (“Rose Comb Cuckoo; Single Comb Cuckoo”) | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Rose Comb Cuckoo”) | No ruling |
| DorkingSkin and scales | Standard (“The skin and flesh of Dorkings are white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| DorkingBeak | Standard (“White. White streaked with horn. Dark horn.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| DorkingLegs and feet | Standard (“Shanks and Toes: White.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| DorkingEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: Brown White/tinted”) |
| Dutch Bantam | No ruling | Standard (“weiß; weiß-blaucolumbia; weiß-goldhalsig; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; gesperbert; gold-porzellanfarbig; kennfarbig; lachsfarbig; perlgrau-gesperbert”) | Standard (“White; Cuckoo”) | Standard (“The white; The pyle (white partridge)”) |
| Dutch BantamCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Cuckoo”) | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamMille Fleur | No ruling | Standard (“gold-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamSalmon | No ruling | Standard (“lachsfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamLavender Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamWhite | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| Dutch BantamBlue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamPyle | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-goldhalsig”) | No ruling | Standard (“The pyle (white partridge)”) |
| Dutch BantamColumbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamLemon Mille Fleur | No ruling | Standard (“zitron-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamBeak | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak dark horn Beak bluish-white or horn Beak dark horn or bluish”) |
| Dutch BantamLegs and feet | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Legs slate blue Legs and feet light slate blue Legs and feet dark slate ... blue or light slate blue ... Serious fault is white legs Legs in colours”) |
| Dutch BantamEarlobes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes pure white. Large, glossy white or red lobes”) |
| Faverolles | Standard (“White; Salmon”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; blau-lachsfarbig; gesperbert; lachsfarbig; silber-weizenfarbig”) | Standard (“White; Salmon”) | Standard (“The white; The salmon”) |
| FaverollesSalmon | Standard (“Salmon”) | Standard (“lachsfarbig; silber-weizenfarbig”) | Standard (“Salmon”) | Standard (“The salmon”) |
| FaverollesWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| FaverollesBlue Salmon | No ruling | Standard (“blau-lachsfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| FaverollesCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| FaverollesColumbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| FaverollesSkin and scales | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Skin colour white. Serious defects: Other than Standard leg or skin colour in all ...”) |
| FaverollesBeak | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak colour white or horn in the buffs, cuckoos, ermines, salmons and whites. Black in the black and laced blue.”) |
| FaverollesLegs and feet | Standard (“shanks and toes white or pinkish-white”) | No ruling | Standard (“SHANKS AND TOES: pinkish white.”) | Standard (“Legs and feet white or horn in the buffs, ermines, salmons and white. White or horn with dark ... Other than Standard leg ... colour”) |
| FaverollesEarlobes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“ear-lobes red Pure white in ear-lobe”) |
| Hamburg | Standard (“Silver Spangled; Silver Penciled; White”) | Standard (“silberlack; silbersprenkel; weiß; gelb-weißsprenkel; gesperbert”) | Standard (“Silver Spangled; Silver Penciled; White”) | No ruling |
| HamburgSilver Spangled | Standard (“Silver Spangled”) | Standard (“silberlack”) | Standard (“Silver Spangled”) | No ruling |
| HamburgSilver Penciled | Standard (“Silver Penciled”) | Standard (“silbersprenkel”) | Standard (“Silver Penciled”) | No ruling |
| HamburgWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | No ruling |
| HamburgBuff White Penciled | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-weißsprenkel”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| HamburgCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| HamburgEarlobes | Standard (“Ear-Lobes: White.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese Bantam | Standard (“Black Tailed White; White; Mottled; Barred”) | Standard (“weiß mit schwarzem Schwanz; weiß; rotgeschultert; weiß-goldhalsig; weiß mit blauem Schwanz; weiß mit schokoladenbraunem Schwanz”) | Standard (“Black Tailed White; White; White Bearded; Blue Tailed White; Silver Laced; Mottled; Barred”) | Standard (“The white; Black-tailed white; Tri-coloured; The mottleds: The blue; The mottleds: The black”) |
| Japanese BantamBlack Tailed White | Standard (“Black Tailed White”) | Standard (“weiß mit schwarzem Schwanz”) | Standard (“Black Tailed White”) | Standard (“Black-tailed white”) |
| Japanese BantamWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White; White Bearded”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| Japanese BantamMottled | Standard (“Mottled”) | Standard (“schwarz mit weißen Tupfen”) | Standard (“Mottled”) | Standard (“The mottleds: The black”) |
| Japanese BantamBarred | Standard (“Barred”) | No ruling | Standard (“Barred”) | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamBlue Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“blau mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | Standard (“The mottleds: The blue”) |
| Japanese BantamBuff Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamPorcelain | No ruling | Standard (“gold-blauporzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamMille Fleur | No ruling | Standard (“gold-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamLavender Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamLavender Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamPyle | No ruling | Standard (“rotgeschultert; weiß-goldhalsig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamRed Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“rot mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamChocolate Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schokoladenbraun mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamBlue Tailed White | No ruling | Standard (“weiß mit blauem Schwanz”) | Standard (“Blue Tailed White”) | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamChocolate Tailed White | No ruling | Standard (“weiß mit schokoladenbraunem Schwanz”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamTricoloured | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Tri-coloured”) |
| Japanese BantamSilver Laced | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Silver Laced”) | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: White or cream”) |
| Jersey Giant | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | Standard (“The white”) |
| Jersey GiantWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | Standard (“The white”) |
| Jersey GiantSkin and scales | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Skin nearly white”) |
| Lakenvelder | Standard (“Only One Variety”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzgezeichnet; weiß-blaugezeichnet”) | Standard (“Lakenvelder”) | Standard (“(single colour)”) |
| LakenvelderEarlobes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes white”) |
| Langshan | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; gesperbert; gestreift”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white; The barred (cuckoo)”) |
| LangshanWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| LangshanCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LangshanBarred | No ruling | Standard (“gestreift”) | No ruling | Standard (“The barred (cuckoo)”) |
| LangshanColumbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LangshanSkin and scales | Standard (“Skin on Body: Pinkish-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Skin thin and white. Flesh white.; Skin of the body and thighs white and transparent”) |
| LangshanBeak | Standard (“Light slate-blue shading to pinkish-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak black Beak white Beak black or blue Beak light or horn; Beak dark horn to black Beak white with a pink shade near the lower edges”) |
| LangshanLegs and feet | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Toenails white, dark colour or black a serious fault”) |
| LangshanEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: White, cream to brown Brown to brown-yellow”) |
| Leghorn | Standard (“Rose Comb White / Single Comb White; Single Comb Columbian; Single Comb Barred”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; weiß-goldhalsig; weiß-schwarzgescheckt; exchequer; weiß-blaucolumbia; gestreift; gesperbert”) | Standard (“White; Columbian; Exchequer; Barred; Dominique; Mille Fleur”) | Standard (“The white; The Columbian; The pile; The mottled - Black mottled; The exchequer; The mottled - Red mottled”) |
| LeghornWhite | Standard (“Rose Comb White / Single Comb White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| LeghornBarred | Standard (“Single Comb Barred”) | Standard (“gestreift”) | Standard (“Barred”) | No ruling |
| LeghornColumbian | Standard (“Single Comb Columbian”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Columbian”) | Standard (“The Columbian”) |
| LeghornCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Dominique”) | No ruling |
| LeghornRed Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“rot-weißgescheckt; rot mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | Standard (“The mottled - Red mottled”) |
| LeghornBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | Standard (“The mottled - Black mottled”) |
| LeghornPyle | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-goldhalsig”) | No ruling | Standard (“The pile”) |
| LeghornExchequer | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzgescheckt; exchequer”) | Standard (“Exchequer”) | Standard (“The exchequer”) |
| LeghornBlue Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“blau-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornGolden Brown Mille Fleur | No ruling | Standard (“goldbraun-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornGold White Laced | No ruling | Standard (“gold-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornBlue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornBuff Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gelbsperber”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornSalmon | No ruling | Standard (“lachsfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornMille Fleur | No ruling | Standard (“gold-porzellanfarbig”) | Standard (“Mille Fleur”) | No ruling |
| LeghornLavender Orange Crele | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau-orangekennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornSilver Crele | No ruling | Standard (“silber-kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| LeghornEarlobes | Standard (“White. White or creamy-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes pure opaque white (resembling white kid) or cream, the former preferred”) |
| LeghornEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: White”) |
| Marans | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; gesperbert; schwarzgold-gesperbert; schwarzsilber-gesperbert”) | Standard (“Silver Cuckoo Marans; Cuckoo Marans”) | Standard (“The silver cuckoo”) |
| MaransCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Cuckoo Marans”) | No ruling |
| MaransWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| MaransGolden Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“schwarzgold-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| MaransSilver Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“schwarzsilber-gesperbert”) | Standard (“Silver Cuckoo Marans”) | Standard (“The silver cuckoo”) |
| MaransColumbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| MaransBeak | Standard (“Black shading to white at the tip”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak white or horn.”) |
| MaransLegs and feet | Standard (“Dark slate, bottom of feet and toes pinkish white.”) | No ruling | Standard (“SHANKS & TOES: White.”) | Standard (“Legs and feet white. In both sexes: a little darkish pigmentation in white shanks.”) |
| MaransEarlobes | No ruling | No ruling | Disqualifying (“white ear lobes”) | Standard (“ear-lobes red White in lobe.”) |
| Minorca | Standard (“Rose Comb White / Single Comb White”) | Standard (“weiß; gestreift”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| MinorcaWhite | Standard (“Rose Comb White / Single Comb White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| MinorcaBarred | No ruling | Standard (“gestreift”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| MinorcaBeak | Standard (“Black. Pinkish-white. White or light horn.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak dark horn Beak white”) |
| MinorcaLegs and feet | Standard (“Pinkish-white. White or pinkish-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Legs black or very dark slate, the latter in adults only Legs pinky white Legs blue to slate”) |
| MinorcaEarlobes | Standard (“Ear-Lobes: White.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes pure white as in the black”) |
| MinorcaEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: White”) |
| Naked Neck | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß; silber-schwarzgeflockt; braun-porzellanfarbig; gesperbert; schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“White; Cuckoo”) | Standard (“white; cuckoo”) |
| Naked NeckWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“white”) |
| Naked NeckSpeckled | No ruling | Standard (“braun-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Naked NeckCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Cuckoo”) | Standard (“cuckoo”) |
| Naked NeckBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Naked NeckSilver Spangled | No ruling | Standard (“silber-schwarzgeflockt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Naked NeckBeak | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Buff, cuckoo, red and white varieties have a white or light horn beak Blacks and blues have a dark horn or black beak”) |
| Naked NeckLegs and feet | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“white legs and feet the legs and feet are black or slate blue”) |
| New Hampshire | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Old English Game | Standard (“Red Pyle; White; Columbian; Spangled; Crele; Cuckoo; Mille Fleur”) | Standard (“weiß-goldhalsig; weiß; splash; weiß-weizenfarbig; rebhuhnfarbig mit weißen Federspitzen; kennfarbig; gesperbert; schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“Red Pyle; White; Columbian; Splash; Black Tailed White; Splash Wheaten; Spangled; Crele; Cuckoo; Mille Fleur; Mottled; Barred”) | Standard (“The pile; spangle”) |
| Old English GameRed Pyle | Standard (“Red Pyle”) | Standard (“weiß-goldhalsig”) | Standard (“Red Pyle”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameSpangled | Standard (“Spangled”) | Standard (“rebhuhnfarbig mit weißen Federspitzen”) | Standard (“Spangled”) | Standard (“spangle”) |
| Old English GameCrele | Standard (“Crele”) | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | Standard (“Crele”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameColumbian | Standard (“Columbian”) | No ruling | Standard (“Columbian”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameCuckoo | Standard (“Cuckoo”) | Standard (“gesperbert”) | Standard (“Cuckoo”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameMille Fleur | Standard (“Mille Fleur”) | No ruling | Standard (“Mille Fleur”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“Mottled”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameSplash | No ruling | Standard (“splash”) | Standard (“Splash”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameWhite Wheaten | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-weizenfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Old English GamePyle | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The pile”) |
| Old English GameBarred | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Barred”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameBlack Tailed White | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Black Tailed White”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameSplash Wheaten | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Splash Wheaten”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameLegs and feet | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Legs white or yellow, white preferred ... willow Legs white or yellow Legs black Legs dark; Legs white, yellow and willow Legs white or yellow”) |
| Orpington | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß; silber-schwarzgesäumt; splash; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; braun-porzellanfarbig; gestreift; kennfarbig; schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white; The jubilee; The spangled”) |
| OrpingtonWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| OrpingtonJubilee | No ruling | Standard (“braun-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | Standard (“The jubilee”) |
| OrpingtonBarred | No ruling | Standard (“gestreift”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonSilver Laced | No ruling | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonSplash | No ruling | Standard (“splash”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonColumbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonChocolate Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schokoladenbraun-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonLavender Barred | No ruling | Standard (“perlgrau-gestreift”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonSpangled | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The spangled”) |
| OrpingtonSkin and scales | Standard (“white (implied by the yellow-skin DQ)”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“skin white to the skin”) |
| OrpingtonBeak | Standard (“White, or pinkish-white. Pinkish-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak white or horn; White, jubilee, cuckoo: white”) |
| OrpingtonLegs and feet | Standard (“White, or pinkish-white.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“legs, feet and skin white”) |
| Phoenix | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“White; The spangled”) |
| PhoenixWhite | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“White”) |
| PhoenixSpangled | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The spangled”) |
| PhoenixBeak | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Beak horn (yellow or white allowed with white plumage).”) |
| PhoenixLegs and feet | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Legs and feet yellow, willow, slate blue or white.”) |
| PhoenixEarlobes | Standard (“White”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes white or red (only red on walnut combed whites, as these are related to the red saddled).”) |
| Plymouth Rock | Standard (“White; Columbian; Barred”) | Standard (“weiß; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; gestreift; braun-porzellanfarbig”) | Standard (“White; Columbian; Barred”) | Standard (“The white; The Columbian; The barred”) |
| Plymouth RockBarred | Standard (“Barred”) | Standard (“gestreift”) | Standard (“Barred”) | Standard (“The barred”) |
| Plymouth RockWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| Plymouth RockColumbian | Standard (“Columbian”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Columbian”) | Standard (“The Columbian”) |
| Plymouth RockSpeckled | No ruling | Standard (“braun-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Polish | Standard (“Bearded Silver / Non-Bearded Silver; Bearded White / Non-Bearded White; Non-Bearded Black Crested White; Non-Bearded White Crested Black”) | Standard (“weiß; Schwarzhauben weiß; silber-schwarzgesäumt; splash; Weißhaube weiß; silber-blaugesäumt; chamois-weißgesäumt; Weißhauben chamois-weißgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver (Bearded); Silver (Non Bearded); White (Bearded); White (Non Bearded); White Crested Black (Bearded); White Crested Black (Non Bearded)”) | Standard (“The bearded silver laced; The bearded self white; white-crested blue; white-crested cuckoo; The bearded chamois; The non-bearded white-crested black”) |
| PolishWhite Crested Black | Standard (“Non-Bearded White Crested Black”) | Standard (“Weißhauben schwarz”) | Standard (“White Crested Black (Bearded); White Crested Black (Non Bearded)”) | Standard (“The non-bearded white-crested black”) |
| PolishSilver | Standard (“Bearded Silver / Non-Bearded Silver”) | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver (Bearded); Silver (Non Bearded)”) | Standard (“The bearded silver laced”) |
| PolishWhite | Standard (“Bearded White / Non-Bearded White”) | Standard (“weiß; Weißhaube weiß”) | Standard (“White (Bearded); White (Non Bearded)”) | Standard (“The bearded self white”) |
| PolishBuff Laced | Standard (“Bearded Buff Laced / Non-Bearded Buff Laced”) | No ruling | Standard (“Buff Laced (Bearded); Buff Laced (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Blue | Standard (“Non-Bearded White Crested Blue”) | No ruling | Standard (“White Crested Blue (Bearded); White Crested Blue (Non Bearded)”) | Standard (“white-crested blue; white-crested cuckoo”) |
| PolishBlack Crested White | Standard (“Non-Bearded Black Crested White”) | Standard (“Schwarzhauben weiß”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishChamois | No ruling | Standard (“chamois-weißgesäumt; Weißhauben chamois-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | Standard (“The bearded chamois”) |
| PolishCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert; Weißhauben gesperbert”) | Standard (“White Crested Cuckoo (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| PolishTolbunt | No ruling | Standard (“tollbunt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishSplash | No ruling | Standard (“splash”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; Weißhauben schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Blue Laced | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhauben blau-gesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Blue Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhauben blau-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Buff | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhauben gelb”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Khaki | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhaube khaki”) | Standard (“White Crested Khaki (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Red | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhaube rot”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Dun | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhaube dun”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Dun Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhaube dun-weißgescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishSilver Blue Laced | No ruling | Standard (“silber-blaugesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Chocolate | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“White Crested Chocolate (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| PolishEarlobes | Standard (“ear-lobes, white”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Ear-lobes blue-white Ear lobes white”) |
| PolishEggshell | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Egg colour: White”) |
| Rhode Island Red | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Sebright | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt; chamois-weißgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver”) | No ruling |
| SebrightSilver | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver”) | No ruling |
| SebrightChamois | No ruling | Standard (“chamois-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Silkie | Standard (“Bearded White / Non-Bearded White; Bearded Splash”) | Standard (“weiß; splash; weiß-schwarzgefleckt; gesperbert; schokoladenbraun-gesperbert”) | Standard (“White (Bearded); White (Non Bearded); White Naked Neck (Bearded); Splash (Bearded); Splash (Non Bearded); Paint (Bearded)”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| SilkieWhite | Standard (“Bearded White / Non-Bearded White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White (Bearded); White (Non Bearded); White Naked Neck (Bearded)”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| SilkieSplash | Standard (“Bearded Splash”) | Standard (“splash”) | Standard (“Splash (Bearded); Splash (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| SilkieCuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| SilkieChocolate Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“schokoladenbraun-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| SilkieBlack Speckled White | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-schwarzgefleckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| SilkiePaint | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Paint (Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| Sumatra | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| SumatraWhite | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| Sussex | Standard (“Light; Speckled”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia; weiß; grausilber; weiß-blaucolumbia; weiß-perlgraucolumbia; braun-porzellanfarbig”) | Standard (“Light; White; Speckled”) | Standard (“light; white; silver; coronation; speckled”) |
| SussexSpeckled | Standard (“Speckled”) | Standard (“braun-porzellanfarbig”) | Standard (“Speckled”) | Standard (“speckled”) |
| SussexLight | Standard (“Light”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Light”) | Standard (“light”) |
| SussexWhite | No ruling | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“white”) |
| SussexSilver | No ruling | Standard (“grausilber”) | No ruling | Standard (“silver”) |
| SussexCoronation | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | Standard (“coronation”) |
| SussexLavender Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-perlgraucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| SussexSkin and scales | Standard (“white (implied by the DQ)”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Flesh and skin white.”) |
| SussexBeak | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“In both sexes and all colours Beak white or horn generally, dark or horn with the brown and dark shading to white with [...]”) |
| SussexLegs and feet | Standard (“shanks and toes, white Shanks and Toes: White.”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Shanks and feet white.”) |
| Wyandotte | Standard (“Silver Laced; White; Columbian”) | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt; weiß; weiß-schwarzcolumbia; silber-blaugesäumt; weiß-blaucolumbia; braun-porzellanfarbig; gestreift; gold-weißgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver Laced; White; Columbian; Splash; Barred; Mottled; White Laced Red”) | Standard (“The silver laced; The white; The Columbian; The barred; The buff laced”) |
| WyandotteSilver Laced | Standard (“Silver Laced”) | Standard (“silber-schwarzgesäumt”) | Standard (“Silver Laced”) | Standard (“The silver laced”) |
| WyandotteWhite | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“weiß”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“The white”) |
| WyandotteColumbian | Standard (“Columbian”) | Standard (“weiß-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Columbian”) | Standard (“The Columbian”) |
| WyandotteSpeckled | No ruling | Standard (“braun-porzellanfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBarred | No ruling | Standard (“gestreift”) | Standard (“Barred”) | Standard (“The barred”) |
| WyandotteGold White Laced | No ruling | Standard (“gold-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteCrele | No ruling | Standard (“kennfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBlack Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”) | Standard (“Mottled”) | No ruling |
| WyandotteSilver Blue Laced | No ruling | Standard (“silber-blaugesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBlue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“weiß-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBlue Salmon | No ruling | Standard (“blau-lachsfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBuff White Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-weißgesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteSalmon | No ruling | Standard (“lachsfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBuff Laced | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The buff laced”) |
| WyandotteSplash | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Splash”) | No ruling |
| WyandotteWhite Laced Red | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“White Laced Red”) | No ruling |
Breeds where White is a fault
| Breed | APA | PCGB |
|---|---|---|
| AustralorpLegs and feet | No ruling | Fault (“white legs”) |
| AustralorpEarlobes | No ruling | Fault (“Permanent white in ear-lobes”) |
| BrahmaLegs and feet | No ruling | Fault (“White legs”) |
| Plymouth RockEarlobes | Disqualifying (“Positive enamel white in ear-lobes.”) | Fault (“White in ear-lobes”) |
| Rhode Island RedEarlobes | Disqualifying (“Positive enamel white covering more than one-fourth of ear-lobes”) | Fault (“An ear-lobe showing white (this does not mean pale ear-lobes, but enamelled white)”) |
| WyandotteEarlobes | Disqualifying (“Ear-lobes more than one-quarter positive enamel white.”) | Fault (“Permanent white or yellow in ear-lobe covering more than one-third of its surface”) |
Breeds where White is disqualified or not accepted
| Breed | APA |
|---|---|
| BarnevelderEarlobes | Disqualifying (“White in the earlobes”) |
| BuckeyeEarlobes | Disqualifying (“Positive enamel white covering more than one-fourth of ear-lobes”) |
| CornishLegs and feet | Disqualifying (“Solid white, blue, or black shanks.; solid green or white shanks”) |
| DominiqueEarlobes | Disqualifying (“Positive enamel white in ear-lobes”) |
| OrpingtonEarlobes | Disqualifying (“Positive white in ear-lobes, covering more than one-third the surface”) |
| SumatraEarlobes | Disqualifying (“White ear-lobes”) |
| SussexEarlobes | Disqualifying (“White in ear-lobes covering more than one-third of surface”) |
| AmeraucanaSkin and scales | No ruling |
| AndalusianSkin and scales | No ruling |
| AndalusianEggshell | No ruling |
| AraucanaSkin and scales | No ruling |
| CatalanaSkin and scales | No ruling |
| CatalanaEarlobes | No ruling |
| CatalanaEggshell | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamEggshell | No ruling |
| HamburgEggshell | No ruling |
| LakenvelderEggshell | No ruling |
| MaransSkin and scales | No ruling |
| MinorcaSkin and scales | No ruling |
| Old English GameEggshell | No ruling |
| PhoenixEggshell | No ruling |
| PolishSkin and scales | No ruling |
| SebrightEggshell | No ruling |
| SumatraEggshell | No ruling |
| Welsummer | No ruling |
| WelsummerEarlobes | No ruling |
Color changes
How White can appear or change over an animal's life.
Yellowchanges toWhite
Plumage · With age · males only
Mottledchanges toWhite
Plumage · Progressive
Yellowchanges toWhite
Skin and scales · With body condition · can change back · females only
Yellowchanges toWhite
Beak · With body condition · can change back · females only
Yellowchanges toWhite
Legs and feet · With body condition · can change back · females only