Black Rhode Rock
A variety of the Rhode Rock
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About the Black Rhode Rock
The Black Rhode Rock carries the hybrid's signature plumage: glossy near-black feathers that catch an iridescent green sheen in sunlight, broken by warm gold through the neck and often spilling onto the chest. This colouring comes straight from crossing a Rhode Island Red with a Barred Plymouth Rock, the same pairing that gives the hen her hardy, placid temperament and steady output of around 280-300 mid-brown eggs a year.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 280
- Purpose
- Laying
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Hybrid
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus