2LearnBreed
Blue Hen of Delaware
Gallus gallus
A breed of Chicken, from United States
Blue strain of fighting chicken.
- Family
- Phasianidae
Keeping
How it is kept
For Chicken generally
No keeping details are recorded for this breed yet, so these are the species’.
Kept for
- Eggs
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 1.5–4.5 kg
- Lifespan
- 5–10 years
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Temperament
- Generally docile and curious; roosters can be territorial
- Forage
- Omnivores that need a complete layer or grower feed as the base of the diet. They also scratch for insects, seeds and greens when they have range.
- Housing
- A dry, draught-free and predator-proof coop with perches, nest boxes and good ventilation. Add a fenced or covered run, as foxes and other predators take birds by day as well as by night.
- Good to know
- Hens lay without a rooster; you only need one for fertile eggs. Laying slows in winter, during the yearly moult and with age. Check regularly for mites and lice, especially in the perches and nest boxes.
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- Name
- Blue Hen of Delaware
- Slug
- blue-hen-of-delaware
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Phasianidae
- Genus
- Gallus
- Species
- gallus
- Cultivar
- Blue Hen of Delaware
- Wikidata QID
- Q4929212
- Origin country
- United States
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52