Lebanon, IL
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Varieties
- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~100
- Hen weight
- ~4 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, alert, wild-natured
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- high
- APA class
- All Other Standard Breeds
- NPIP stock code
- R60
- Origin
- Indonesia
Breed guide
Sumatra
Also known as: Black Sumatra
A striking ornamental from the island of Sumatra, kept for its beetle-green black plumage and long, flowing, pheasant-like tail carried low. Males often grow multiple spurs on each leg, and the dark gypsy face and pea comb complete a wild look. They fly well and range far, roosting high given the chance.
Keeper's notes
Needs room. Confinement wears on them, and tall fences barely slow them down. Excellent foragers and attentive mothers, with hens going broody readily. Modest layers of smallish white eggs. This one suits a keeper who wants a hardy showpiece that looks after itself, with production beside the point.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Orientals (Class IX)
“The tail is long, large and drooping, carried at an angle of thirty degrees above the horizontal, with an abundance of long, flowing feathers and coverts, the plumage very lustrous greenish-black throughout.”
Disqualifications: Combs other than pea; white ear-lobes; feathers other than black in any part of plumage.
APA recognized varieties
All Other Std Breeds · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Black 1883Blue 2003
Sumatra listings
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Where to find Sumatra
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (8)
Shelbyville, IL
Xenia, OH
South Eaton, OH
Lake Milton, OH
West Union, OH
New London, OH
South Vienna, 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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