White Faced Black Spanish Chicken

White Faced Black Spanish chicken is one of the oldest Mediterranean breeds which originated in Spain. Once this chicken breed also known as ‘Clown Chickens’, ‘the Fowls of Seville’, and ‘Clown Faced Chickens’. White Faced Black Spanish chicken has glossy black plumage and is closely related to the Castilian and Minorca chicken breeds. But they are an older breed than Minorcas. It is distributed throughout the world, but is rare in Spain. The Spaniards brought the first birds to the Caribbean region and it is among the oldest breeds in the United States. During the Colonial period, they were very popular in the South. White Faced Black Spanish chicken was admitted into the American Poultry Association’s Standard of Perfection in 1874.

White Faced Black Spanish Chicken

CHARACTERISTICS

• White Faced Black Spanish chicken has glossy black plumage. 
• The most distinguishing features of this chicken breed are their large, white, low hanging earlobes. 
• Their earlobes are actually overdeveloped. 
• This breed is very slow to develop (sometimes take over a year for getting full maturity). 
• Their white face will get deeper and richer with age, taking up to a full year to develop. 
• White Faced Black Spanish chickens have medium size, bright red colored single comb with five well defined points. Those points are droop to the side in females and upright in males. 
• Their wattles are long, thin and are of bright red color (with white on the upper inside in males). 
• Their eyes are dark brown in color and they have black beak. They have no crest. 
• Their shanks and toes are of dark slate color. 
• Their skin color is white. 
• On an average, White Faced Black Spanish roosters weight about 2.5-3 kg and hens weight about 2-2.5 kg. 
• There is also a bantam variety available of this chicken breed.

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