Blue Plymouth Rock
A variety of the Plymouth Rock
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Blue Plymouth Rock
A smoky blue-grey bird, often with darker lacing and near-black neck feathering, the colour produced by the blue dilution gene acting on black. Because blue is a heterozygous effect it does not breed wholly true: blue-to-blue matings yield roughly half blue plus black and splash birds. One of the seven APA-recognised varieties and relatively uncommon, the Blue carries the same hardy, dual-purpose temperament as the rest of the breed.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 220
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus