Brahma chicken

Brahma
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,: 78  and was the principal American meat breed from the 1850s until about 1930.

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