Oakley, IL
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- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~180
- Hen weight
- ~6.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, noisy, avoids handling
- Forages
- good
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Mediterranean
- NPIP stock code
- R97
- Origin
- Spain
Breed guide
White-Faced Black Spanish
Also known as: Spanish, Clown-Faced Chicken
One of the oldest Mediterranean breeds, glossy black with a large mask of white enameled face skin that takes over a year to fully develop. A good layer of large chalk-white eggs. Rare and kept mainly by exhibitors.
Keeper's notes
The bare white face and big comb are frost-tender; provide dry, draft-free winter housing in cold climates. Heat rarely troubles them.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Mediterranean
Standard weights: cock 8 lbs, hen 6.5 lbs, cockerel 6.5 lbs, pullet 5.5 lbs
“The rich, glossy, black plumage, the rather large, five-pointed comb and the long, pendulous white face give this early claimant to popular favor a distinct individuality among standard-bred fowl.”
Disqualifications: Decided red in the face, except directly above the eyes; face so puffy as to obstruct the sight; foreign color in any part of plumage; shanks other than blue or dark leaden-blue, except the natural fading from age.
APA recognized varieties
Mediterranean · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
White Faced Black 1874
White-Faced Black Spanish listings
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Where to find White-Faced Black Spanish
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (5)
Cerro Gordo, IL
Lucasville, OH
Glenford, OH
Blacklick, OH
Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
Woodson-Winchester Murrayville, IL
Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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