Scots Dumpy
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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.Template:R There are both standard-sized and bantam Scots Dumpies.Template:R It is one of two Scottish breeds of chicken, the other being the Scots Grey.
History
The Scots Dumpy is a traditional Scottish breed; short-legged birds of this type have been bred in Scotland for more than two centuries.Template:R Some were introduced to England in the mid-nineteenth century, and were first shown at the Metropolitan Poultry Exhibition in Baker Street in London in 1852.Template:R In 1854 John Fairlie of Cheveley Park in Cambridgeshire showed some at the Cheltenham Poultry Show in Cheltenham.Template:R It later became one of the rarest British breeds. In 1975 a search for surviving stock in Scotland was unsuccessful. Two years later a dozen birds were imported from Kenya, descendants of a small flock taken there in 1902 in the dowry of Violet Mabel Carnegie, and used to re-constitute the breed.Template:R
In 2009 it was listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as "at risk", the lowest of the four levels of endangerment the RBST assigned to poultry at that time.Template:R
Characteristics
There is no set colour for the Scots Dumpy, which is usually cuckoo, black or white; the breed standard allows any colour standardised in other breeds.Template:R The comb is single and bright red. The ear-lobes are small, the wattles of medium size; they and the face are also bright red.Template:RTemplate:Efn The eyes are red in the white and cuckoo varieties, dark in the black.Template:R
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Use
Scots Dumpy hens lay about 180 white or cream-coloured eggs per year.Template:R They are good sitters, and have been used to hatch clutches of game-bird eggs.Template:R
Notes
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