Lemon Cuckoo Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Lemon Cuckoo Orpington
The Lemon Cuckoo replaces the standard cuckoo's grey ground with a soft lemon-buff, barred across with pale cream — made by introducing the sex-linked barring gene onto a Buff Orpington base. The result is a gentle, low-contrast version of the cuckoo pattern. It is a non-standard colour, still scarce, but a full soft-feathered, calm Orpington underneath.
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