Black Jersey Giant
A variety of the Jersey Giant
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Black Jersey Giant
The original and most common variety, recognised by the APA in 1922. Its solid black plumage carries a striking iridescent 'beetle-green' sheen that flashes in sunlight, set off by black shanks with yellow foot soles and a black beak. This is the classic 'gentle giant' form bred in 1880s New Jersey as a table bird, and a calm, hardy winter layer of very large brown eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 180
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus