Rhode Island White
A variety of the Rhode Island White
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Rhode Island White
The sole recognised variety is a moderately sized, entirely white bird — pure white plumage across body, tail and flights with no barring or other colour admitted — set off by a bright red rose comb, wattles and oblong earlobes. Developed in Rhode Island from 1888 (White Wyandotte x Partridge Cochin x Rose Comb White Leghorn), it was the Rose Comb form that the APA admitted in 1922; the single-comb form was never standardised. A calm, rose-combed dual-purpose layer of brown eggs, it remains uncommon and is listed Watch by The Livestock Conservancy.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 240
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus