Cuckoo North Holland Blue
A variety of the North Holland Blue
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Cuckoo North Holland Blue
Cuckoo is the breed's only recognised colour: irregular grey-and-dark barring across the plumage (not the crisp barring of true Barred birds), which can read as bluish at a distance and gives the breed its name despite no actual blue pigment. The barring is sex-linked, so females are noticeably darker than the lighter males, and crossing barred females with unbarred dark-down males yields sex-linkable chicks. A rare heavy dual-purpose Dutch fowl, it keeps the calm temperament and Malines-derived quick growth of the breed, with the British type carrying lightly feathered shanks.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus