The Dorbar :
The Dorbar was based on the silver grey Dorking but with greater improvement in the egg laying ability of the Dorking. It should have the same five toes and lay large white eggs with a waxy surface and should have red ear lobes and white skin. It surpasses the Dorking in egg laying but still doesn’t beat the Legbars or Cambars on numbers. The Dorbar was primarily created to produce a good meat bird in the early 1940’s in Cambridge
On hatch both the silver and gold varieties show the same sex distinction as the Legbars only clearer. The breed had mainly died out by the 1950’s because the Dorbar didn’t give show enough signs of being able to compete with the more popular auto-sexing breeds. If anyone decides to recreate this breed then it must only be bred from single combs and not rosecombs
The Dorbar is used to create the following autosexing breeds : Brussbar
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