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- Purpose
- dual
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~180
- Hen weight
- ~6 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, alert, avoids handling
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- English
- NPIP stock code
- R125
- Origin
- England (Derbyshire)
Redcap
English farm breed carrying the largest rose comb of any chicken, a full cushion of points covering the head. Once a common Pennine dual-purpose fowl, laying white eggs unusual for an English breed. Now rare.
Vigorous forager happiest on range. The huge comb resists frost better than its size suggests. Still, give a dry coop in a hard freeze.
“The male should be of good size, with large, rose comb, well-flowing hackle, a straight back of medium length, large, well-expanded tail and the full, well-rounded breast characteristic of this variety.”
Disqualifications: Solid white ear-lobes; comb other than rose; foreign-colored feathers indicating impurity, except white in primaries; mottled breast in male; shanks other than slate or leaden-blue, except the natural fading from age.
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