Wheaten Pekin Bantam
A variety of the Pekin Bantam
Chicken · Cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Wheaten Pekin Bantam
Wheaten Pekins show strong sexual dimorphism: hens are a soft, pale cinnamon-wheat colour across the body, while cockerels carry a black-breasted-red type pattern with rich orange-red hackles and saddle over a black breast and tail. It is one of the rarer Pekin colours, recognised in the Australian standard and emerging on UK show benches. The plumage sits on the breed's ball-shaped, heavily foot-feathered true-bantam frame; docile and very broody.
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