Which Chicken breeds come in Mottled?

Club breed standards describe Mottled for the Ancona chicken, Brahma chicken, Cochin chicken, Cornish chicken, Dutch Bantam, Japanese bantam, Leghorn, Naked Neck, Old English Game, Orpington, Polish chicken, and Wyandotte.

Chicken pattern

Mottled

Colored feathers with white tips scattered irregularly, as in Anconas; mottled skin or legs show patches of pigment.

37 Chicken breeds list Mottled. It is in a club standard for 37 breeds.

Breeds whose standards accept Mottled

Breed	APA	PCGB	EE	ABA
Ancona chicken	Standard (“Single Comb; Rose Comb”)	Standard (“(single colour)”)	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; blau-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Brahma chicken	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Brahma chickenBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Cochin chicken	Standard (“Mottled”)	Standard (“The black mottled”)	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; blau-weißgescheckt; gelb mit weißen Tupfen; perlgrau-weißgescheckt; schokoladenbraun-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Cochin chickenBlack Mottled	Standard (“Mottled”)	Standard (“The black mottled”)	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Cochin chickenBlue Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“blau-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Cochin chickenBuff Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“gelb mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
Cochin chickenLavender Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“perlgrau-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Cochin chickenChocolate Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schokoladenbraun-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Cornish chicken	Standard (“Mottled”)	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“Mottled”)
Cornish chickenMottled	Standard (“Mottled”)	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“Mottled”)
Dutch Bantam	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Dutch BantamBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Japanese bantam	Standard (“Mottled”)	Standard (“The mottleds: The blue; The mottleds: The black”)	Standard (“schwarz mit weißen Tupfen; blau mit weißen Tupfen; gelb mit weißen Tupfen; perlgrau mit weißen Tupfen; rot mit weißen Tupfen”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Japanese bantamMottled	Standard (“Mottled”)	Standard (“The mottleds: The black”)	Standard (“schwarz mit weißen Tupfen”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Japanese bantamBlue Mottled	No ruling	Standard (“The mottleds: The blue”)	Standard (“blau mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
Japanese bantamBuff Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“gelb mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
Japanese bantamLavender Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“perlgrau mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
Japanese bantamRed Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“rot mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
Japanese bantamChocolate Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schokoladenbraun mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
Leghorn	No ruling	Standard (“The mottled - Black mottled; The mottled - Red mottled”)	Standard (“rot-weißgescheckt; rot mit weißen Tupfen; schwarz-weißgescheckt; blau-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
LeghornRed Mottled	No ruling	Standard (“The mottled - Red mottled”)	Standard (“rot-weißgescheckt; rot mit weißen Tupfen”)	No ruling
LeghornBlack Mottled	No ruling	Standard (“The mottled - Black mottled”)	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
LeghornBlue Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“blau-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Naked Neck	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Naked NeckBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Old English Game	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Old English GameBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
Orpington	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; schokoladenbraun-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
OrpingtonBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
OrpingtonChocolate Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schokoladenbraun-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Polish chicken	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; Weißhauben schwarz-weißgescheckt; Weißhauben blau-weißgescheckt; Weißhaube dun-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Polish chickenBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt; Weißhauben schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Polish chickenWhite Crested Blue Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“Weißhauben blau-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Polish chickenWhite Crested Dun Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“Weißhaube dun-weißgescheckt”)	No ruling
Wyandotte	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)
WyandotteBlack Mottled	No ruling	No ruling	Standard (“schwarz-weißgescheckt”)	Standard (“Mottled”)

Color changes

How Mottled can appear or change over an animal's life.

Mottledchanges toWhite
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