Black Scots Dumpy
A variety of the Scots Dumpy
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Laying
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About the Black Scots Dumpy
The Black Scots Dumpy shows glossy black plumage with a green sheen in both sexes, set off by black or slate beak, legs and feet and dark eyes — distinct from the breed's other colours, which carry white legs. Black is one of the two original, fully standardised colours and is among the most widely kept, carried on the breed's famously short-legged 'creeper' body as a calm, good-broody dual-purpose bird.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 180
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus