Barred Scots Grey
A variety of the Scots Grey
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Laying
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About the Barred Scots Grey
The Scots Grey carries the breed's only recognised colour: a steel-grey ground crossed by black, metallically-lustred barring, with the bands of equal width across each feather. The markings run larger and bolder on the hens, giving the prized tartan-like effect, while cocks show finer patterning. Beneath this distinctive plumage is a tall, active dual-purpose Scottish bird that forages tirelessly, lays cream eggs and seldom goes broody, now a rare breed on the RBST watchlist.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 180
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus