Birds of the Wyandot breed are distinguished by their beauty and variety of color. That is why the selectionists use them for breeding other breeds. They are loved by the breeders because of their unpretentious and calm nature. The popularity of the breed adds and the fact that it is a combination, that is, not only meat, but also egg-bearing.
The Wyandot chick breed is domestic and belongs to the meat and egg type. It was created many decades ago and owes its name to the North American Indian tribe. The origin of these chickens is the United States of America. This breed had many names: Excelsior, Sibrayta, Colombian chickens, etc.
To create Wyandot chickens, such species as Bentham-sybright, Cochinhin, Leggorn, Dorking, Brama, Orpington and Hamburg were taken as the basis.
Viandot Breed Description
There are more than 15 types of color varieties of Wyandot chickens: white, fawn blue, black gold and silver bordered, yellow-striped, white-gold, partridge, blue-gold, multi-colored.
Main features
- Earlobes are medium sized, shiny, red
- The face is red, smooth, slightly pubescent.
- Earrings delicate, smooth, red with glitter
- The eyes have a red-brown color.
- Short and powerful beak, slightly bent (black stripes may be present)
- Pea-shaped ridge, clearly divided into 3 lines
- The body is rounded and compact, wide, medium-high
- Chest wide and full
- The back and shoulders are wide, of proportional length, the back rises towards the tail, the loins are strongly rounded due to the lush and abundant plumage
- The wings are short, tightly adjacent to the body and kept in a horizontal position
- Abdomen volume, wide
- The neck is short or medium, with a beautiful lush mane
- Round head has medium size
- The tail is short, fluffy, open, has braids
- Medium-sized thighs with a rather thick cover.
- Hocks are bright yellow, relatively long with widely spread fingers,
- The skin is pink or white
- Plumage luxurious, soft, smooth, tight to the body; wide feather
- The size of the ring in a chicken is 4, in a rooster it is 3.
- The hen is smaller than the rooster, the tail is lush, rounded, has an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal line.
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Impermissible faults
- Serious deviations from the standards established by the standard
- Angular short small body, ball-like body with small legs
- Long narrow body and narrow tail
- Deep set of body, sloping back in the direction of the tail, overly loose or strongly plumage to the body
- No spike on ridge or very sharp spike
- Brilliant white coating on the lobes
- Eyes of a light shade
In Russia, white Wyandot is considered the most popularwhich is bred as a result of the pairing of a silver-white Wiandot with Doppings and Leggorn. Its main features are a pinkish comb, a small wide head, small neat earlobes and earrings, a short broad body, a massive chest, a short neck with a fluffy mane, powerful mid-long legs, rich yellow fingers and a beak. White Viandot feels great in the heat and cold.
A photo
In the first two photos you can see the representatives of Wyandot in red-blue-hooded coloration. Here is a close-up view in the house:
And here they calmly walk on the grass:
The following two photos show golden Wiandotas. Closeup on top:
And walking in the backyard:
A large photo of Wyandot standard. Female to his full height:
A couple of chickens, quietly walking on their very important matters:
Finally, the Wiandothy chickens are silver-bordered. Couple sitting on a stick. Together they are not cold at all:
Beautiful female decided to sit down to relax:
Features
The main positive features of the hens of this breed are:
- Good egg production, which practically does not depend on the season and does not decrease in the winter period.
- The chicks are very tenacious, well bred both naturally and in an incubator, they grow quickly and fledge.
- Birds are friendly and easily get along with other breeds, their maintenance is not required separately.
- Chickens have a good ability to fatten, and their meat quality and very gentle.
They tolerate frost well, so there are no special requirements for keeping birds during the winter period. Wyandot breed tolerates almost any climatic conditions and adapts well to the harsh northern cold.
Wiandotes do not fly, so they can be kept both in cages and in roofless cages. Chickens start laying eggs early. (starting from 6-7 months). They have a well-developed incubation instinct and are caring mothers. Birds of this breed are inactive, calm and thoughtless, this causes their tendency to obesity.
Content and cultivation
Wyandot chickens are unpretentious to the conditions of detention, however, they need to organize large paddocks. But it is better to be careful when pulling the net over the place where the chickens are walking to avoid infection from other birds that may fly there.
As for the house itself, it should be light and spacious. Due to the resistance of the rock to frost, it is possible in the winter not to warm the chicken coop too much. It is better to choose horizontal and strong roosts, as the hens of this breed are rather heavy. On the floor, you can pour small chips, husks of buckwheat and rice, dry leaves of trees.
The litter mixed with the litter needs to be changed in time. And near the house you can install a box filled with ashes and sand, so that the birds dig in it and clean the feathers from various parasites.
Food should be stored in a clean, dry room with a normal level of humidity or in tightly closed containers (this will help protect food from rodents that are carriers of various diseases).
In winter, chickens are fed grass to which alfalfa can be added. For the rigidity of the eggshell they are given crushed shells or feed containing calcium. To meat quality, in the feed should be added various vitamin and mineral complexes.
In order to get good offspring, you should only buy Wyandot chickens from proven producers in order to avoid buying infected birds.
Specifications
The average weight of a rooster is about 3-3.4 kg, chicken - 2.5 kg. The average annual egg production rate of young chickens is about 170–180, while for the out-of-season hens there are about 150 eggs. The mass of one egg is about 50-60 g., The color of the shell is yellow-brown.
Where can I buy in Russia?
- «Orlovsky courtyard”- Mytishchi, Pogranichny Dead End, 4; phone +7 (915) 009-20-08, +7 (903) 533-08-22, orlovdvor.ru website.
- Farm "Bird village" - Yaroslavskaya oblast; phone +7 (916) 795-66-55, +7 (905) 529-11-55, site ptica-village.ru.
- Farm "Golden feathers"- Moscow, 20 km from Moscow Ring Road on the Nosovihinskoe highway; Telephone +7 (910) 478-39-85, +7 (916) 651-03-99.
Analogs
The Wyandot dwarf breed has the same characteristics, isolated into a separate breed. They are smaller and are an exact replica of large chickens. The average weight of a rooster is 1 kg., Hens - 800 g. Currently, the number of dwarf Viandotov is significantly higher than the number of ordinary Viandot birds.
If we take into account the color of such a species of breed as Wyandot silver, the color of its plumage is very similar to the plumage of birds of the Sibright breed.
Breed chickens Brama have egg production rates similar to that of the Wiandot, but they begin to sag a little later. The breeds also have similar external features, such as a compact-sized head with a rounded forehead protruding forward, thick densely-feathered legs.
In Russia, the Wyandot breed is rare and endangered. Amateur breeders she divorced in small quantities. Breeders keep specimens of the breed for genetic reserve in special collectors.
