Scots Dumpy

Scots Dumpy
Dumpies at the Metropolitan Poultry Show in Baker Street, London, Christmas 1852; wood engraving from: William Wingfield, The Poultry Book, 1853
Conservation status
Other names
  • Bakie
  • Corlaigh
  • Crawler
  • Creeper
  • Scotch Bakie
  • Stumpy
Country of originScotland
StandardPCGB
Use
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • standard: 3.2 kg[4]: 264 
    • bantam: 800 g[4]: 265 
  • Female:
    • standard: 2.7 kg[4]: 264 
    • bantam: 675 g[4]: 265 
Egg colourwhite or cream-coloured[5]: 277 
Classification
EEnot recognised[6]
PCGBsoft feather: light[7]

The Scots Dumpy is a traditional Scottish breed of chicken. It is characterised by very short legs, so short that the body is a few centimetres from the ground; as in other breeds of creeper chicken, this chondrodystrophy is caused by a recessive lethal allele. The Dumpy has at times been known by other names, among them Bakie, Corlaigh, Crawler, Creeper and Stumpy.[8][9] There are both standard-sized and bantam Scots Dumpies.[3][10] It is one of two Scottish breeds of chicken, the other being the Scots Grey.

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