Polish chicken size. Polish chickens are similar to Leghorns in size. They’re small, about 12 to 15 inches tall. Roosters weigh around 6 pounds, and hens weigh about 4.5 pounds.

Polish roosters and other showy chickens are bred for competition, not consumption. Scientists think humans first domesticated chickens between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Pictured here, a Polish hen.

One Polish Crested hen named Chicken, for instance, listed her favorite activity as "chasing Chihuahuas." Her competitor, Jeff, a red-combed rooster with emerald plumage, informed judges that he ...

Cordon Bleu, a white crested blue Polish chicken owned by Tamara Simmons of Beaverton, is now a two-time winner of the Lents Chicken Beauty Contest. The fourth-annual contest on Sunday, Aug. 5 was ...

South Africa will soon add Polish chickens to its list of imported meats. The deal kicked off on Monday this week‚ said Andrzej Krezel‚ head of trade and investment at the Polish Embassy.The ...