Wheaten Shamo
A variety of the Shamo
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Ornamental
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About the Wheaten Shamo
Wheaten is the hen-side expression of the black-red genetic family and is APA-recognised in the Shamo (often listed female-only). Hens carry a pale, even wheat-gold body shading to darker hackle, while wheaten cocks show lustrous rich orange hackle and saddle, deep red back and a preferred pure-black breast. As with all Shamo it is the statuesque, upright build and hard feathering, not colour, that the standard rewards.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 60
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- Japan
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus