Marengo, IL
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- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~100
- Hen weight
- ~4 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- docile, gentle, sedate
- Forages
- poor
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- All Other Standard Breeds
- NPIP stock code
- R1050
- Origin
- Turkey
Breed guide
Sultan
Also known as: Serai Taook, Serai-Tavuk
Ornamental breed kept in the gardens of Ottoman sultans, carrying nearly every fancy trait at once: crest, beard, muffs, vulture hocks, feathered feet, five toes, and a V-comb. The standard variety is pure white. It produces poorly, and people keep the bird for its beauty.
Keeper's notes
All that feathering ruins fast in mud, so they need covered, dry runs through a wet season. Gentle birds, easily bullied. House them with other docile ornamentals.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Miscellaneous (Class XI)
Standard weights: cock 5 lbs, hen 4 lbs
“They have for their most attractive characteristics the novel features of a full crest, muff and beard, with vulture-hocks and profuse shank and toe feathering.”
Disqualifications: Beak other than white or pale flesh color; large red face; absence of beard; absence of vulture-hocks; shanks not feathered down outer sides.
APA recognized varieties
All Other Std Breeds · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
White 1874
Sultan listings
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Where to find Sultan
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (5)
Xenia, OH
Mantua, OH
Chardon, OH
Lot B Chesterhill, OH
Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
Polk, OH
Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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