Cuckoo Pekin Bantam
A variety of the Pekin Bantam
Chicken · Cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Cuckoo Pekin Bantam
The Cuckoo Pekin is barred rather than self-coloured: each feather is evenly banded with dark slate across a light French-grey ground, giving a soft, blurred barring distinct from sharp Barred. Recognised in the UK standard, the pattern is carried over the breed's profusely feathered, cushioned body. Cuckoos retain the Pekin's docile, broody pet temperament.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Eggs per year
- About 100
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- True bantam
- Yes
- Origin
- China
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus