Yellow Hungarian Chicken
The yellow Hungarian chicken is a traditional Hungarian farm chicken variety, recognized by yellow to buff plumage and a general-purpose body suited to eggs, meat, and outdoor smallholding life. It belongs with Hungary's old landrace chicken resources rather than with modern high-output hybrids. The color is important, but the breed's deeper value is its adaptation to local farms, seasonal weather, and practical household production.
Keepers usually manage yellow Hungarian chickens as hardy dual-purpose birds, giving them dry roosts, winter shelter, and room to forage when conditions allow. Breeding should preserve both color and utility, including fertility, laying steadiness, body substance, and calm farmyard behavior. Conservation flocks should avoid crossing simply to brighten plumage, since imported buff breeds can resemble the color while lacking the Hungarian landrace background.
Colors: Barred, Birchen, Black, Blue, Brown, Buff, Columbian, Crele, Cuckoo, Duckwing, Gold, Gold Laced, Laced, Lavender, Mille Fleur, Mottled, Partridge, Penciled, Porcelain, Red, Silver, Silver Laced, Spangled, Splash, Wheaten, White
