Chicken color
Buff
A warm golden tan: Buff Orpingtons, buff ducks, geese and turkeys, buff cavies and buff Cocker Spaniels.
75 Chicken breeds list Buff. It is in a club standard for 75 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Buff
| Breed | APA | EE | ABA | PCGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ameraucana | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| AmeraucanaBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| Araucana | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| AraucanaBuff | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| Brahma | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia; gelb-blaucolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff Columbian”) |
| BrahmaBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| BrahmaBuff Blue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| BrahmaBuff Columbian | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The buff Columbian”) |
| Catalana | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“hell-goldbraun”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Cochin | Standard (“Buff; Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“gelb; gelb-schwarzcolumbia; gelbsperber; gelb-gesperbert; gelb-blaucolumbia; gelb mit weißen Tupfen”) | Standard (“Buff; Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| CochinBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| CochinBuff Columbian | Standard (“Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff Columbian”) | No ruling |
| CochinBuff Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gelbsperber; gelb-gesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinBuff Blue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| CochinBuff Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Cornish | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| CornishBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| Dutch Bantam | No ruling | Standard (“gelb; gelb-blaucolumbia; gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamBuff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamBuff Blue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch BantamBuff Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Faverolles | No ruling | Standard (“gelb; gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| FaverollesBuff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| FaverollesBuff Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Hamburg | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-weißsprenkel”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| HamburgBuff White Penciled | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-weißsprenkel”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese Bantam | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff”) | Standard (“gelb mit schwarzem Schwanz; gelb; hellgelb; gelb mit blauem Schwanz; gelb mit weißen Tupfen; gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff; Buff”) | Standard (“The buff Columbian; The black-tailed buff; The following secondary colours are permitted: ginger, blue dun ...”) |
| Japanese BantamBlack Tailed Buff | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff”) | Standard (“gelb mit schwarzem Schwanz”) | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff”) | Standard (“The black-tailed buff”) |
| Japanese BantamBuff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb; hellgelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamBlue Tailed Buff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit blauem Schwanz”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamBuff Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit weißen Tupfen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Japanese BantamBuff Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | Standard (“The buff Columbian”) |
| Langshan | No ruling | Standard (“gelb”) | No ruling | Standard (“The buff”) |
| LangshanBuff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb”) | No ruling | Standard (“The buff”) |
| Leghorn | Standard (“Rose Comb Buff / Single Comb Buff”) | Standard (“gelb; gelb-schwarzcolumbia; gelbsperber”) | Standard (“Buff; Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“The buff; The buff Columbian”) |
| LeghornBuff | Standard (“Rose Comb Buff / Single Comb Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| LeghornBuff Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“The buff Columbian”) |
| LeghornBuff Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gelbsperber”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Minorca | Standard (“Single Comb Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| MinorcaBuff | Standard (“Single Comb Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| Naked Neck | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| Naked NeckBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| Old English Game | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff; Ginger Red”) | No ruling | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff; Buff; Ginger Red”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameBlack Tailed Buff | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff”) | No ruling | Standard (“Black Tailed Buff”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameGinger Red | Standard (“Ginger Red”) | No ruling | Standard (“Ginger Red”) | No ruling |
| Old English GameBuff | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Buff”) | No ruling |
| Orpington | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb; gelb-blaugesäumt; gelb-schwarzgesäumt; gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| OrpingtonBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| OrpingtonBuff Blue Laced | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-blaugesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonBuff Black Laced | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| OrpingtonBuff Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Phoenix | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit schwarzem Schwanz”) | No ruling | Standard (“black-tailed buff”) |
| PhoenixBlack Tailed Buff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb mit schwarzem Schwanz”) | No ruling | Standard (“black-tailed buff”) |
| Plymouth Rock | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb; gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| Plymouth RockBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| Plymouth RockBuff Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Polish | Standard (“Bearded Buff Laced / Non-Bearded Buff Laced”) | Standard (“chamois-weißgesäumt; Weißhauben chamois-weißgesäumt; gelb; Weißhauben gelb”) | Standard (“Buff Laced (Bearded); Buff Laced (Non Bearded)”) | Standard (“The bearded chamois”) |
| PolishBuff Laced | Standard (“Bearded Buff Laced / Non-Bearded Buff Laced”) | No ruling | Standard (“Buff Laced (Bearded); Buff Laced (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| PolishChamois | No ruling | Standard (“chamois-weißgesäumt; Weißhauben chamois-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | Standard (“The bearded chamois”) |
| PolishBuff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| PolishWhite Crested Buff | No ruling | Standard (“Weißhauben gelb”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Sebright | No ruling | Standard (“chamois-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| SebrightChamois | No ruling | Standard (“chamois-weißgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Silkie | Standard (“Bearded Buff / Non-Bearded Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff (Bearded); Buff (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| SilkieBuff | Standard (“Bearded Buff / Non-Bearded Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff (Bearded); Buff (Non Bearded)”) | No ruling |
| Sussex | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia; gelb-blaucolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“buff”) |
| SussexBuff | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“buff”) |
| SussexBuff Blue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Wyandotte | Standard (“Buff; Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“gelb; gelb-schwarzcolumbia; gelb-blaucolumbia; gelb-schwarzgesäumt; gelb-weißgesperbert”) | Standard (“Buff; Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“The buff; The buff laced”) |
| WyandotteBuff | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“gelb”) | Standard (“Buff”) | Standard (“The buff”) |
| WyandotteBuff Columbian | Standard (“Buff Columbian”) | Standard (“gelb-schwarzcolumbia”) | Standard (“Buff Columbian”) | No ruling |
| WyandotteBuff Blue Columbian | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-blaucolumbia”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBuff Black Laced | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-schwarzgesäumt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBuff White Cuckoo | No ruling | Standard (“gelb-weißgesperbert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| WyandotteBuff Laced | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“The buff laced”) |
Color changes
How Buff can appear or change over an animal's life.
Buffchanges toGold
Plumage · With age · females only