Rural Gardening: Which breed of chicken is the most beautiful?, 1 by BackyardHens

BackyardHens wrote:
I'm a big auracauna fan myself.

Right now I think my prettiest bird is probably Piccadilly, the bantam silver laced wyandotte. I bought her ( and my bantam brahmas, those are pretty too!) from a chicken breeder who goes to shows, etc. and so she is really close to the breed standard ( who knew there was such a thing.) She is so pretty.

I had no idea how different your typical murray-mcmurray chickens would be from the standard of perfection ( i feel silly writing that) but there is a huge different between my mail order wyandotte and my chicken breeder one, in terms of the amount of white.
apparently silver -laced are supposed to have white feathers with a penciling of black around each one. Piccadilly is a little too white on the breast.

Here is piccadilly.