They were brought to Holland, where the Dutch bred various varieties of Polish chicken to refine their color patterns and develop crests. By the mid-1800s, Polish chicken arrived in the U.S.

Queen Elizabeth is a Barnevelder, a Dutch chicken breed. Bear is a Lavender Orpington, which originate from southeast England. These are their humans.

Cheap, fast-bred broiler chicken – known as plofkip – is set to disappear from Dutch supermarket shelves from 2015 and to be completely phased out by 2020, faster than originally agreed.