Hamburg Chicken

     The Hamburg’s origin is wrapped in a mystery, but it is most likely to be the United Kingdom and/or the Netherlands. It’s is a small or a medium-sized breed of Chickens with slate-blue legs, a neat rose comb, and white earlobes. The Hamburg is a highly ornamental bird that has been bred for over 3 centuries in the UK.

     Hamburgs are active, graceful and flighty semi-wild birds. The chicks feather up fast and mature quickly. The Hamburg has also good foraging abilities and comes in multiple color-varieties that include; black, blue, silver-penciled, golden-penciled, with silver-spangled and gold-spangled as the most common two color-varieties.

     Hamburg hens are prolific layers of fairly small white eggs, especially in the bantam version which actually lays better than the larger breed. They lay 160 – 200 white eggs per year, and each one weighs about 50 g, but they don’t tend to go broody.