Silver Penciled Hamburg
A variety of the Hamburg
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Silver Penciled Hamburg
The Silver Pencilled has a clear creamy-white ground crossed by several fine parallel dark bars on the hen's body feathers; the term 'pencilled' is a historic misnomer, as the markings are technically transverse barring rather than concentric pencilling. This pencilled type is of Dutch origin, unlike the English-bred spangled Hamburgs. It carries the breed's rose comb, sprightly foraging nature and glossy white eggs and is now largely an exhibition fowl.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- Netherlands / United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus