Ixworth
Gallus gallus domesticus
✨ Dato Curioso
The Ixworth was created by the same Reginald Appleyard who developed the Silver Appleyard duck — one of Britain's most celebrated waterfowl breeds. Appleyard was a prolific and visionary breeder who designed multiple livestock breeds at his farm in Suffolk, but the Ixworth chicken remains his most obscure creation, now critically rare despite his best intentions.
A rarely-seen British dual-purpose breed developed in the 1930s by Reginald Appleyard in the village of Ixworth, Suffolk, by crossing White Sussex, White Orpington, White Minorca, White Leghorn, and Jubilee Indian Game. Appleyard's goal was a fast-growing, all-white table bird that could also lay well — an attempt to create an ideal small farm chicken at a time when intensive farming was still decades away. The Ixworth is pure white with a pea comb (unusual for a British breed), produces a good carcass with well-set flesh, and lays cream to tinted eggs. It is now a rare breed on the RBST critical list.
🏷️ Raza
Ixworth
💭 Temperamento
Calm, docile, easy to manage, good forager
📏 Tamaño
Large (3.2-4.1 kg)
⏳ Esperanza de vida
5-8 years
🎨 Colores
Pure white throughout; pea comb; yellow skin and legs
🌍 Origen
England — Ixworth, Suffolk; created by Reginald Appleyard, 1930s
🏠 Hábitat
Free-range or enclosed run; typical British farmyard conditions
🍽️ Dieta
Layer pellets with pasture foraging
🎯 Propósito
Dual Purpose
🥚 Color del huevo
Tinted
👑 Tipo de cresta
Pea
🏅 Clase EE
Large Fowl