Dorking is a famous chciken breed come from
Dorking, England. This rectangular body shape with short legs is good both ini
meat and eggs. The color of egg is white, Eventhough, the Dorking har red earlobes. Most the white
eggs come from whie ear lobes hen. The average of egg production is not more
than 200 egg a year, the exact range is 170-190 eggs. The egg production
does not exceed the levels seen in common dual-purpose chickens,
including the Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire, and Plymouth Rock.
This chciken is dual purpose chicken
developed from Belgiia in Roman era. The dorking is a five toes chicken, similar
to the silkie chicken. The roman brought the chicken as fine table.
THe chicken is large. the rooster weighs
4,55 to 6,55 kilogram (10-14 lbs); while, the hen weighs 3 to 5 kilogram (8-11
lbs). there is bantam version weighs around a kilograms. The roster bantam
wieghs 1130 to 1360 grams, meanwhile, the hen slighlty diferrent. it weighs
910-1130 gram. Some bantam has rosecomb.
There are five color that is reconition bys
the standard breeed, such as white, sliver grey, red, dark and cucko. The
silver grey color is the color pattern with silver neck color. the silve grey
also have grey color in sadddle and the center of wing. The remain color of is
is black.
The Dorking is not hard winter due its wide
comb. Meanwhile, the chciken is not tolerate with hot condition or hot weather.
In my country, there is dorking descendant.
the descendant is called Ayam Kedu. The kedu has no five toes but the
performance is similar to Dokring. They have have upright body and tall. The
comb is also single wide with red earlobe. There is thre color variation of
Kedu, such as White, Red and color.