Birchen Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Birchen Orpington
A predominantly black Orpington relieved by a silvery-white hackle and saddle and fine white lacing on the upper breast, with a black wing triangle — the classic birchen pattern produced by the E^R allele at the E-locus. Cocks carry more silver in cape and saddle; hens are largely solid black with a patterned hackle and breast lacing. A rare, largely unstandardised colour on the soft-feathered, dual-purpose Orpington frame.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Light brown
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus