Chocolate Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Chocolate Orpington
The Chocolate is a uniform, warm milk-to-dark brown over the whole bird, the result of a rare sex-linked recessive chocolate gene that dilutes black pigment to brown. The mutation was identified in Orpington bantams by Dr Clive Carefoot in the 1990s and was previously unknown in chickens; because it is sex-linked, hens need one copy and cocks two to show the colour. A modern, prized variety carrying the usual gentle Orpington type.
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