Cuckoo Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Cuckoo Orpington
The Cuckoo shows the classic barred pattern — a light blue-grey ground crossed on every feather by bands of darker blue-black, giving a soft, irregular striping. It is one of the PCGB-recognised Orpington colours and the foundation for the breed's other barred forms. Underneath the pattern it is a standard Orpington: large, soft-feathered, even-tempered and a reliable light-brown-egg layer.
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