Black Orloff
A variety of the Orloff
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Ornamental
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About the Black Orloff
A self-black variety, solid black to the skin from head to tail in both sexes with a beetle-green sheen over the feathering. One of the PCGB-standardised Orloff colours, the dense black plumage suiting the breed's cold-defying, thick-necked, bearded build; lays tinted eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 150
- Purpose
- Ornamental, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- Iran (developed in Russia)
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus