Red Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Red Orpington
A rich, even self-red Orpington carrying the breed's deep, soft-feathered bulk in a warm mahogany-red coat. A historical colour attributed to W. Holmes Hunt around 1910-1912, it never reached the popularity of the Buff and remains rare and unstandardised today. Like all Orpingtons it is a calm, cold-hardy dual-purpose bird and a dependable 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