Lavender Cuckoo Pekins - No Longer Stock
We kept beautiful Lavender Cuckoo Pekins from 2012 choosing to sell our last in late 2015.
Pekin Bantam Breed Standard
Origin: Asia (China)
Classification: True Bantam
Egg Colour: White or cream
Standard Colours: Black, Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Mottled, Barred, Columbian, Lavender, Partridge, White, Birchen, Silver Partridge.
This is a genuine bantam breed, very old and having no real relationship to the large breed of Cochins. It was imported from Pekin in the middle of the nineteenth century, hence its name. In recent years new colours have been added to the standard.
General characteristics:
The breed is small in size approx. 20-30cm tall, but makes up for this with bags of character. They are wonderful birds to watch in the garden, very comical with all their fluff. There are a huge number of colours available in the UK with new colours still arriving. The breed is suitable for kids to get involved with as they are easily handled, when handled correctly, as with any breed supervision of kids with birds is advisable. The chicks have feathered feet too so make very attractive pets for kids or for adults, easily hand reared. The breed is happy enough in a suitable enclosure, but enjoys nothing better than a dust bath in the garden.
Male: 680g
Type: Body short and broad. Back short, increasing in breadth to the saddle, which should be very full, rising well from between the shoulders and furnished with long soft feathers. Breast deep and full. Wings short, tightly tucked up, the ends hidden by saddle hackle. Tail very short and full, soft and without hard quill feathers, with abundant converts almost hiding main tail feathers, the whole forming one unbroken duplex curve with back and saddle. General type: tail should be carried higher than the head – ‘tilt’.
Head: Skull small and fine. Beak rather short, stout, slightly curved. Eyes large and bright. Comb single, small, firm, perfectly straight and erect, well serrated, curved from front to back. Face smooth and fine, ear-lobes smooth and fine, preferably nearly as long as the wattles, which are long, ample, smooth and rounded.
Neck: Short, carried forward with abundant long hackle reaching well down the back.
Legs and feet: Legs short and well apart. Stout thighs hidden by plentiful fluff. Hocks completed covered with soft feathers curling round the joints (stiff feathers forming ‘vulture hocks’ are objectionable but not disqualification). Shanks short and thick, abundantly covered with soft outstanding feathers. Toes, four, strong and straight, the middle and outer toes plentifully covered with soft feathers to their tips.
Plumage: Very abundant, long and wide, quite soft with very full fluff.
Female: 570g
Type: With the exception of the back (rising into a very full and rounded cushion) the general characteristics are similar to those of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences.
In both sexes and all colours
Beak yellow, but in dark colours may be shaded with black or horn. Eyes red, orange or yellow-red preferred. Comb, face, wattles and ear-lobes bright red. Legs and feet yellow. (Dark legs permissible in blacks if the soles of the feet and back of shanks are yellow).
Classification: True Bantam
Egg Colour: White or cream
Standard Colours: Black, Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Mottled, Barred, Columbian, Lavender, Partridge, White, Birchen, Silver Partridge.
This is a genuine bantam breed, very old and having no real relationship to the large breed of Cochins. It was imported from Pekin in the middle of the nineteenth century, hence its name. In recent years new colours have been added to the standard.
General characteristics:
The breed is small in size approx. 20-30cm tall, but makes up for this with bags of character. They are wonderful birds to watch in the garden, very comical with all their fluff. There are a huge number of colours available in the UK with new colours still arriving. The breed is suitable for kids to get involved with as they are easily handled, when handled correctly, as with any breed supervision of kids with birds is advisable. The chicks have feathered feet too so make very attractive pets for kids or for adults, easily hand reared. The breed is happy enough in a suitable enclosure, but enjoys nothing better than a dust bath in the garden.
Male: 680g
Type: Body short and broad. Back short, increasing in breadth to the saddle, which should be very full, rising well from between the shoulders and furnished with long soft feathers. Breast deep and full. Wings short, tightly tucked up, the ends hidden by saddle hackle. Tail very short and full, soft and without hard quill feathers, with abundant converts almost hiding main tail feathers, the whole forming one unbroken duplex curve with back and saddle. General type: tail should be carried higher than the head – ‘tilt’.
Head: Skull small and fine. Beak rather short, stout, slightly curved. Eyes large and bright. Comb single, small, firm, perfectly straight and erect, well serrated, curved from front to back. Face smooth and fine, ear-lobes smooth and fine, preferably nearly as long as the wattles, which are long, ample, smooth and rounded.
Neck: Short, carried forward with abundant long hackle reaching well down the back.
Legs and feet: Legs short and well apart. Stout thighs hidden by plentiful fluff. Hocks completed covered with soft feathers curling round the joints (stiff feathers forming ‘vulture hocks’ are objectionable but not disqualification). Shanks short and thick, abundantly covered with soft outstanding feathers. Toes, four, strong and straight, the middle and outer toes plentifully covered with soft feathers to their tips.
Plumage: Very abundant, long and wide, quite soft with very full fluff.
Female: 570g
Type: With the exception of the back (rising into a very full and rounded cushion) the general characteristics are similar to those of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences.
In both sexes and all colours
Beak yellow, but in dark colours may be shaded with black or horn. Eyes red, orange or yellow-red preferred. Comb, face, wattles and ear-lobes bright red. Legs and feet yellow. (Dark legs permissible in blacks if the soles of the feet and back of shanks are yellow).