Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington
The Chocolate Cuckoo lays the cuckoo barring over a chocolate base, so the dark bars appear as warm brown rather than blue-black, giving a brown-toned barred bird. It draws on the sex-linked chocolate gene combined with sex-linked barring, making it one of the rarer and more recent Orpington colours. Not a PCGB standard colour, but full Orpington in type and temperament.
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