Ethel is from Sterling Meadows Hatchery & resides at the Seward Alaska Hamptons, where she labors under the mistaken belief that she is really a dog. Casmir Lorenz and Taylor Quales raised Ethel.
We are showing her at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer as a Silver Grey Dorking Pullet. She will be on display in the Poultry Building from August 26 - 31st.
The Roman Writer Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columbella (AD 4- AD 70) mentioned dorkings in Volume 8 of his 12 Volume text Rei rusticae libri, our most important source on Roman Agriculture. Columbella felt Dorkings were the purest breed of chicken as they had five toes instead of four.
Dorkings are the only breed with red earlobes that lay a white-shelled egg. From Julius Caesar’s Italy Dorkings made their way to Great Britian, first appearing in a poultry show in 1845.
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy lists the Dorking as "threatened," meaning that they are globally endangered and there are less than 1,000 breeding birds in the United States.
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