Wheaten Malay
A variety of the Malay
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Ornamental
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About the Wheaten Malay
In the wheaten Malay the hen is the distinctive sex, clothed in soft pale golden-wheat body feathering with a darker head and tail, while the cock resembles a black-red. It is recognised by the American Poultry Association — the wheaten male being among the more recent additions to the APA Standard — but is not one of the colours listed by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. Like all Malays it is a rare, hard-feathered giant kept for presence over production.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 70
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- Asia
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus