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CLASSIFICATION STATUS RATINGS
Critical - Fewer than 100 purebred breeding birds Endangered - Fewer than 200 purebred breeding birds
Vulnerable
- Fewer than 300 purebred breeding birds At Risk – Fewer than 500 purebred breeding birds Watch - Breed subject to fluctuating numbers

POULTRY STRAINS IDENTIFIED AS BEING PUREBRED FOR MORE THAN THE LAST 40 YEARS
(identified as strains only) (Numbers for these stains are counted separately from those in the next section)
Critical
Campine, John Hobbs Strain
Australorp, Judson Strain
Endangered
Leghorn, White CSIRO Strain
At Risk
Bronze Turkey, King Island Strain

Please contact Ian Mullins if you know of any other such old strains within breeds


POULTRY BREEDS / STRAINS NOT YET IDENTIFIED AS BEING PUREBRED FOR MORE THAN THE LAST 40 YEARS

FOWL
(Only True Bantams, those which have no large counterpart, are included in these lists)
Critical
Standard Soft Feather
Australorp (white)
Autosexing Breeds
Dorking (other than Silver Grey)
Hamburgh (pencilled)
Langshan(Croad)
Orpington (white)

Plymouth Rock (light barred)
Spanish
Red Sussex
Standard Hard Feather
Malay Game
Red Jungle Fowl

Endangered
Standard Soft Feather
Ancona
Andalusian
Australorp (blue)
Campine
Dorking, Silver Grey
Faverolles (Salmon)
Hamburgh (gold spangled)
Langshan, Australian (blue, white)
Leghorn (pile, buff, duckwing)
Orpington (blue & buff)
Plymouth Rock (other than barred)
Polish
Rhode Island (rosecomb, white)
Silkie (other than black, white)
Sussex (speckled)
Transylvanian Naked Neck
Wyandotte (buff, Columbian, crele, gold-laced)
Standard Hard Feather
Australian Game
Australian Pit Game
Old English Game (black-red L/L, partridge L/L, partridge D/L, pile L/L, pile D/L)
Phoenix
Bantam Soft Feather

Pekin (birchen, brown-red, cuckoo)
Sebright
Rosecomb (other than black)
Japanese

Vulnerable
Standard Soft Feather
Araucana (Lavender Strain)
Barnevelder (doubled laced)
Frizzle
Hamburgh (black, silver spangled)
Leghorn (brown, black, blue)
New Hampshire
Orpington (black)
Plymouth Rock (light barred)
Welsummer
Wyandotte (partridge, pencilled)
Standard Hard Feather
Indian Game (jubilee)
Bantam Soft Feather
Japanese
Pekin (mottled)

TURKEYS
Critical
Black
Narragansett
Royal Palm
Bourbon Red
White (Other than commercial)
Endangered
Slate
At Risk
Bronze

GEESE
Critical
African
Chinese (white)
Crested Roman
Pilgrim
Pomeranian
Sebastapol
Endangered
Exhibition Toulouse
At Risk
Chinese (brown)
Embden

DUCKS
Critical
Aylesbury
Black East Indian
Campbell (dark)
Crested
Indian Runner ( varieties other than white or fawn & white)
Orpington (buff)
Saxony
Welsh Harlequin
Endangered
Blue Swedish
Campbell (white)
Cayuga
Elizabeth
Muscovy (other than white or black & white)
Silver Appleyard
At Risk
Indian Runner (fawn & white)
Rouen
Campbell (khaki)
Muscovy (white, black & white)
Pekin

Watch
Barbu d' Anvers (other than quail, lavender, black)
Barbu d' Uccle (other than millifleur & porcelaine)
Barbu d' watermeal
Pekin (varieties other than black, white, blue and buff and those listed under Rare and At Risk)


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