Blue Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Blue Orpington
The Blue shows an even slate-blue body, darker on the head, hackles and tail, with each feather laced a shade darker around the edge — the classic laced-blue look. The colour comes from a single blue dilution gene, so blue does not breed true: pairing blue to blue yields roughly half blue, a quarter black and a quarter splash. A PCGB-recognised variety with all the breed's calm, soft-feathered dual-purpose character.
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