Buff Barred Buffbar
A variety of the Buffbar
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Laying
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About the Buff Barred Buffbar
The buff barred plumage is what defines the Buffbar: a warm golden-buff body overlaid with the soft, indistinct barring carried in from Barred Plymouth Rock. It is this single sex-linked colour pattern that makes the breed autosexing, since cockerel chicks (a double dose of the barring gene) hatch noticeably paler than pullets, allowing accurate day-old sexing. A scarce British heritage layer from the Cambridge autosexing programme, the buff barred Buffbar is kept today almost entirely by enthusiasts of the autosexing breeds.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus