Red Dorking
A variety of the Dorking
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Red Dorking
The Red Dorking is a deep, dark-feathered variety: the cock has rich red hackle and saddle and a dark red back and wing-bow over black breast, wings and tail, while hens are a warm brown-red with gold-and-black hackles. It tends to be smaller-bodied and tighter-feathered than the other colours, and is one of the rarer Dorkings (added to the APA Standard only in 1995). It keeps the breed's five toes, white eggs and dual-purpose table character.
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