Mottled Ancona
A variety of the Ancona
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Mottled Ancona
Mottled is the Ancona's sole recognised colour: a lustrous beetle-green-black ground with roughly one feather in five tipped by a small V-shaped white fleck, giving the breed its speckled finish. The mottling enlarges and multiplies with each moult — historically called "going grey" — so younger, darker birds with crisp, even tipping are preferred for exhibition. Beneath the plumage this remains a lively, hardy Mediterranean layer of white eggs, suited to free-range foraging rather than confinement.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 220
- Purpose
- Laying
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- Italy
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus