Brahma chicken

Brahma
Light, male
Other names
  • Brahma Pootra
  • Burnham
  • Gray Chittagong
  • Shanghai
Country of originUnited States
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    5.5 kg
  • Female:
    4.5 kg
Egg colorbrown
Comb typepea
Classification
APAAsiatic
ABAfeather legged
EEyes
PCGBsoft feather: heavy

The Brahma is an American breed of chicken. It is believed that it was first bred in the United States from birds imported from the Chinese port of Shanghai, and was the principal American meat breed from the 1850s until about 1930.

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