Cuckoo Dorking
A variety of the Dorking
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Cuckoo Dorking
The Cuckoo is the barred Dorking, each feather crossed with soft, irregular bands of pale and dark slate-grey that give a blurred cuckoo pattern rather than crisp barring. It is among the scarcer Dorking colours and was a comparatively late addition to the standards (recognised by the APA in 1998). Beneath the distinctive plumage it is the same ancient deep-bodied table breed on short five-toed legs, laying white eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 170
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus