• Uses:Attractive, economical utility birds.
• Origin:Hamburg, Germany.
• Eggs:160 – 190 cream / tinted.
• Weight: Cock:5 – 3.2 Kg.Hen:2.0 – 2.5 Kg.
• Bantam Cock:910 g. Hen: 680 g.
• Colour:White head, hackles and tail. Gold body and wings.

Useful to Know: Vorwerks are alert and active and generally docile, suitable for novices. They can fly reasonably well. Quick to mature and economical with food if allowed to forage, spare males can be used as a more ‘traditional’ table bird.

• Uses:Attractive, economical utility birds.
• Origin:Hamburg, Germany.
• Eggs:160 – 190 cream / tinted.
• Weight: Cock:5 – 3.2 Kg.Hen:2.0 – 2.5 Kg.
• Bantam Cock:910 g. Hen: 680 g.
• Colour:Black head, hackles and tail. Buff body and wings.

Useful to Know:

• Uses:Rare breed. Utility – Layer.
• Eggs:190-Tinted.
• Origin:The Netherlands / Germany.
• Weight: Cock:25 – 2.7Kg. Hen:2Kg.
• Bantam: Cock: Hen: 510g
• Colour:Black and White.

Useful to Know: A rare breed that is more popular in Germany and The Netherlands where they are called Lakenfelder with an ‘f’ and have slightly different standards to the UK and North America

• Uses: Exhibition / Ornamental.
• Eggs:120-180.
• Origin: China
• Weight: Cock:55 – 5.45Kg, Hen:3.2 – 4.10Kg.
• Bantam: Cock: 1080g,Hen:
• Colours: Dark, Light, White, Gold, Blue Partridge, Buff Columbian.

Useful to Know: Indoor housing is often used by exhibitors during bad weather to avoid feathers on feet from being broken. Dark versions require double mating (using separate cock and hen breeders) to obtain the best markings

• Uses:Exhibition / Ornamental.
• Eggs:150 – 200 Brown
• Origin:Orpington, Kent,  England
• Weight: Cock:6 – 4.6Kg, Hen:3.2 – 4.10Kg.
• Bantam: Cock: 5kg,Hen: 800g.
• Colours:Buff, Lavender,  Blue / Black Splash,  Chocolate, Jubilee,  White, Gold, Blue Partridge, Buff Columbian.

Useful to Know:   The Orpington is a British breed of chicken. It was bred in the late nineteenth century by William Cook of Orpington, at that time in Kent in south-east England. It was intended to be a dual-purpose breed, to be reared both for eggs and for meat, but soon became exclusively a show bird.