Buff Nankin
A variety of the Nankin
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Ornamental
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About the Buff Nankin
The Nankin's sole colour: a rich golden-buff to chestnut body set off by a contrasting black tail. Hens show a lighter chestnut with black-tipped tail feathers, while cocks are deeper-toned with black tail and flight feathers and long black sickles. Slate-blue legs are correct (occasional white legs from a recessive gene are a fault). Found in both single- and rose-comb forms, this jaunty true bantam is critically rare and prized as a historic broody.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 120
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- True bantam
- Yes
- Origin
- Asia (UK developed)
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus