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I'm Matteo and I'm a professional photographer. I've always been fascinated by the beauty of birds.
In 2013 I decided to go in search of a Concincina as a pet for my studio garden in Milan. That's when I met Giorgio, a farmer who invited me to an aviary exhibition.
That very same day, the Concincina hen Jessicah (cue Unchained Melody) stole my heart.
My friend and work partner Moreno joined me in this passion/madness and we started to take pictures of literally hundreds of chickens and roosters.
Just look at them. They are beautiful. And they know it.
Eventually, we ended up with enough material to think about publishing a book. That's why we just launched a Kickstarter campaign.
More info: kickstarter.com | Instagram
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#1
Final score:
370points
Kevin Donegan 7 years ago
This comb (the top of his head) could be the new color for a lipstick!
Susan Jones 7 years ago
Chickens are awesome and these photos show how pretty and cool they are! I love their interesting dinosaur looking feet & legs too! I have 15 pet hens and 2 pet roos. This is a Golden Sebrite. I have a Golden Sebrite hen. Her name is Picassa because she looks like a beautiful painting. Their feathers look like this all the time.
Susan Jones 7 years ago
Beautiful! This is a Golden Seabrite rooster. I have a Golden Seabrite bantum hen (bantum means a chicken is a smaller size/breed). My Golden Seabrite's name is Picassa because she's so beautiful and looks like a painting!
The Screaming Destruction Cat 7 years ago
Are you absolutely certain that the chicken isn't painted? What is this chicken called?
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#2
Final score:
367points
Susan Jones 7 years ago
Blue silkie hen. I have one named Lavender (and a black silkie named Jackie-O). You can tell the hens from the roos because the roos have little knotted combs on their forehead. Silkies don't have pronounced combs like some other breeds. Somehow their feathers stay fluffy and clean like this all the time! This breed is very very sweet :) I also had a brown hen named Foxy Brown :) Having pet chickens is super fun and pretty easy. You just need to make sure you lock them up in a coop at night so predators don't get them.
#3
Final score:
332points
Lynda St.James 7 years ago
I never thought of a chicken as being beautiful, but this guy is stunning!
#4
Final score:
280points
Chess Wizard 7 years ago
Now all I can think of is chickens clucking, but in Phyllis Dillers voice.
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Susan Jones 7 years ago
This is a white-crested black Polish breed. Various Polish chickens have different colored body and/or head feathers, but they all have this characteristic long head feathers :) I do feel bad for them because I feel they can't see well. I have two Polish hens. I trim the feathers a little above their eyes so that they can see hawks, owls and osprey who come around every so often.
#5
Final score:
277points
d r e a m w o r l d 7 years ago
"They tried to put me on the cover of Vogue, but my legs were tooooooo long!"
#6
Final score:
270points
Susan Jones 7 years ago
I believe this may be a golden Polish Frizzle, although the feathers don't look curled as a Frizzle. The head feathers are characteristic of a Polish hen.
#8
Final score:
254points
Julie Robertson 7 years ago
Oh, this reminds me of my Charlie. He was a little bantam rooster with an enormous personality! I miss that bird …
Christa Jennings 7 years ago
Are they the same color pattern as Wellsummer? This guy looks just like my Wellsummer roosters.
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#9
Final score:
242points
Chess Wizard 7 years ago
You were okay calling it a rooster before. The BREED is Bard, but this is still a rooster. :)
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Hawk 7 years ago
Pretty sure this is a bard, correct me if I'm mistaken (a bard is a type of chicken)
Chess Wizard 7 years ago
The BREED may be Bard, but this is still a rooster. http://animals.mom.me/how-to-tell-a-barred-rock-rooster-from-a-barred-rock-hen-3920656.html
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#11
Final score:
152points
Helmi-Elisa Turunen 7 years ago
This actually rooster, breed name is sebright (silver one are also supercool!)
Cyren Asteraceya 7 years ago
I actually prefer the silver sebrights myself :)
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April Hunter 7 years ago
Isn't that a golden laced Wyandotte? I could be wrong, but I had a golden and a silver and they looked similar. Either way, just beautiful and I love this entire photo set. This post is missing a few that would have been fantastic additions: Asian Jungle Fowl, Plymouth Barred Rock, and the stunning black Ayam Cemani.
Clem Stanyon 7 years ago
Golden laced Wyandottes have more blue-black in their feather edges and are a heavier bird, more meat – like an Orpington – than an egg-layer like a leghorn.
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#12
Final score:
151points
#14
Final score:
139points
Melissa Crusinberry 7 years ago
A very beautiful Silver Spangled Hamburg rooster. Such an awesome breed!
Jacquie Ouellette 7 years ago
I have one like this but has a head dress like a polish crested hair style
#15
Final score:
139points
Melissa Crusinberry 7 years ago
Kind of hard to tell without seeing the face, but my bet is Dark Brahma hen.
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#16
Final score:
132points
Julia Wolfe 7 years ago
I knew he reminded me of some US President. Check out Martin Van Buren
Renee Parrinello 7 years ago
Awww. Don't insult the poor chickie. What did chickie do to you? ;)
Load More Replies... Melissa Crusinberry 7 years ago
Looks like some type of Belgian Bantam, possibly a Quail/Antwerp.
Clem Stanyon 7 years ago
Looks like the wrong colour tail for an Antwerp...
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Carrie Lewis 7 years ago
I like the way it’s colors coordinate, I wonder what else is in his closet, I mean coop....
#17
Final score:
125points
Carrie Lewis 7 years ago
I have a dream... I have a dream that one day all chickens will be photographed as beautiful creatures.
#19
Final score:
116points
Margaret Baddeley 7 years ago
For some reason this makes me think of autumn and models in gorgeous overcoats
#20
Final score:
111points
Aimée Lorenz 7 years ago
Thousand flower chicken. Mille = thousand in French
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Jennifer Pruden 7 years ago
Mille Fleur d’Uccle Bantam hen. They are among the sweetest breeds. Gentle and friendly.
#21
Final score:
104points
Sugarsail1 3 years ago (edited)
I have the dark version of this breed, he's pushing 14 lbs, but don't call him fat, he's big boned, and if you call him fat, he will mate with your ankles and make you bleed, then he'll eat as many of your children as he can catch.
#22
Final score:
103points
Susan Jones 7 years ago
Wow, I love his powerful awesome dinosaur legs!!!! And those amazing copper and green and black contrast, simply gorgeous majestic rooster (hen?!)
River Darling 7 years ago
Yep, this is a cockerel 😊 One of our best broody bantam hens had spurs.
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Madalyn Kohler 1 year ago
I had a bird just like this one but she died in 3 months of me having her do to a raccoon. She imprinted on me as a 3 day old chick.
Julie Robertson 7 years ago
SHE does have glorious legs. (Every guy likes a gal with a great set of gams!)
#23
Final score:
97points
person (i think) 7 years ago
Looks cool, but makes me sad that we have bred chickens to have all these extra feathers on their feet and legs of a type that would only cause them problems. :\
Ingrid Thompson 7 years ago
These feathered legs usually denote many old breeds. The bare leg varieties are generally newer. The feathers are extra insulation from the cold, very practical!
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sharron lynn parsons 7 years ago
I am against foolish people that bred any animal for the wrong reason, perhaps they have too much money , short on ethics. !!!
Maggie Collins 7 years ago
Are all those feathers on the ground connected to his legs/feet? Beautiful!
#25
Final score:
94points
Magsterrrrrrrr 7 years ago
Okay sorry, but this one looks a bit too much like what’s for dinner.
#26
Final score:
93points
Melissa Crusinberry 7 years ago
I agree Diana. Definitely looks like a Pekin. So petite!
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#27
Final score:
91points
Melissa Crusinberry 7 years ago
Blue Frizzle Cochin Bantam, though he looks a little rough around the edges.
Melissa Crusinberry 7 years ago
Might be Frizzled Serama instead, though.
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#28
Final score:
84points
SockBoi 7 years ago
As with the one above, she also looks like she was dragged out of the shower backwards
Christa Jennings 7 years ago
Semi-frizzled black splash cochin? Our frizzled cochins looked much better than this.
Diana Seay 7 years ago
I've got 3 roosters that look just like this one and they are the most vicious little things. They seriously abuse me. But they're very cute.
Cristina Loayza 7 years ago
This could be my mom, seriously, the feather colour and attitude....
#29
Final score:
82points
Cassandra Coleman Mennone 7 years ago
Belgium Bearded...I named mine Waffle! He is a character!
Anna McKnight 7 years ago
Sadly, as the pages go on the points get less. Not a true picture of the best photo, but of the staying power of the viewers.
#30
Final score:
79points
Melody Lanzatella 7 years ago
Watch documentary, Chicken People! Very funny, informative and entertaining!
Load More Replies... Cristina Loayza 7 years ago
I have an older much older aunt who looks and dresses much like this.... and the stance too.
Colleen Hutchinson 7 years ago
Big breasted & wearing one of those crocheted shawl things around her shoulders?
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#31
Final score:
76points
Sheryl Thompson 7 years ago
I've heard of running around like a headless chicken , never thought I'd see one !!
#32
Final score:
72points
Christa Jennings 7 years ago
Though possibly rumpless, so perhaps a reconstituted Araucana.
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#33
Final score:
58points
Shell N Steve Newman 3 years ago
WE'L HAVE NO TROUBLE ER MATE. HE LOOKS LIKE A BOUNCER DOOR MAN X
Elsie Collins 7 years ago
He's STILL trying to figure out which came first!! And why he crossed the road!!
Vincent Jay 7 years ago
This one reminds me of the giant critters in the Sinbad movies when I was a kid.
Maggie Collins 7 years ago
Absolutely stunning, thanx so much for posting these. Very surprising and enjoyable.
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John L 7 years ago
They're so cute, just like their great, great, great......grand parents. Velocirapt...fc4bdc.jpg 
Ana 7 years ago
That photo makes no sense there but I agree they look like their chicken grandparents.
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M. T. (Post author) 7 years ago
We indicate every breed in the book (teaser wink wink, go check our kickstarter wink wink)
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Oli Fong 7 years ago
wow these are amazing, you never really stop and appreciate how beautiful these birds are.
Esca Sav 7 years ago
This is an amazing post! Honestly, the photographs were very well done to emphasize how beautiful these animals are. Keep up the good work!
M. T. (Post author) 7 years ago
Thank you! They were really easy to photograph to be honest :)
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Daniel Losinger 7 years ago
Couldn't you make these photos any darker? I can still almost see the chickens.
Devin Robinson 7 years ago
How can chickens look like they're twice divorced? Jk, but these are really awesome
Natalia Sofia 7 years ago
Absolutely beautiful photography. Chickens are my favorite birds. I rescued one girl, she lived with me for six years before she passed. She had her own dog bed, loved watermelon, would lay down in front of the TV to watch the Flinstones, would peck my bed so I could pick her up and cuddle, and would purr me to sleep just like a kitty! :) Oh she loved listening to Mozart too, I'd play it when she was outside and she would lay down and watch the butterflies around her in my yard :')
Pearl Sapirstein 7 years ago
I call my chickens the “feather dogs”, they really are so smart and sweet!!!
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Destiny Rose 7 years ago
I feel like crying whenever I see a live chicken because I had a cousin who had chickens and whenever my parents and I visited his family, I always hung out with him in the chicken coop. He tragically passed away a few years ago. He was 20.
Magpie 7 years ago
*offers a sad smile, and if it is ok a hand to hold just for a bit.* "sorry for your loss" seems so inadequate.
Load More Replies... John L 7 years ago
They're so cute, just like their great, great, great......grand parents. Velocirapt...fc4bdc.jpg
Ana 7 years ago
That photo makes no sense there but I agree they look like their chicken grandparents.
Load More Replies... M. T. (Post author) 7 years ago
We indicate every breed in the book (teaser wink wink, go check our kickstarter wink wink)
Load More Replies... Oli Fong 7 years ago
wow these are amazing, you never really stop and appreciate how beautiful these birds are.
Esca Sav 7 years ago
This is an amazing post! Honestly, the photographs were very well done to emphasize how beautiful these animals are. Keep up the good work!
M. T. (Post author) 7 years ago
Thank you! They were really easy to photograph to be honest :)
Load More Replies... Daniel Losinger 7 years ago
Couldn't you make these photos any darker? I can still almost see the chickens.
Devin Robinson 7 years ago
How can chickens look like they're twice divorced? Jk, but these are really awesome
Natalia Sofia 7 years ago
Absolutely beautiful photography. Chickens are my favorite birds. I rescued one girl, she lived with me for six years before she passed. She had her own dog bed, loved watermelon, would lay down in front of the TV to watch the Flinstones, would peck my bed so I could pick her up and cuddle, and would purr me to sleep just like a kitty! :) Oh she loved listening to Mozart too, I'd play it when she was outside and she would lay down and watch the butterflies around her in my yard :')
Pearl Sapirstein 7 years ago
I call my chickens the “feather dogs”, they really are so smart and sweet!!!
Load More Replies... Destiny Rose 7 years ago
I feel like crying whenever I see a live chicken because I had a cousin who had chickens and whenever my parents and I visited his family, I always hung out with him in the chicken coop. He tragically passed away a few years ago. He was 20.
Magpie 7 years ago
*offers a sad smile, and if it is ok a hand to hold just for a bit.* "sorry for your loss" seems so inadequate.
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