Sumatra Chicken

The Sumatra is a breed of chicken native of the island of Sumatra. Chickens were originally imported from Sumatra in 1847 to the U.S. and Europe as fighting cocks for the purpose of cockfighting, but today the breed is primarily kept for exhibition. 1883 is the year the Black Sumatra was first inducted into the American Standard of Perfection. 

Sumatras are an exceedingly rare breed of chicken with a personality closer to that of a wild game bird than a domestic chicken: they are thought to be closely related to the jungle fowl of the Far East. They have been known variously as "Sumatran Pheasants" or "Java Pheasant Game Birds," even though they are most definitely chickens! Their unique carriage, with their sweeping tails held low, gives them the air of a pheasant or peacock.

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Characteristics

• Sumatras are primarily an ornamental breed kept for their attractive plumage.
• Sumatras make great show birds, and they're usually kept for their beauty alone.
• This is no surprise, because they're usually poor layers and they aren't hefty enough to be a good meat bird.
• Most often they are a lustrous black with a green sheen throughout the body and tail.
• The breed comes in blue and white varieties, as well as the unstandardised splash - a natural result of breeding blue chickens.
• their shiny, lustrous feathers are striking, but in addition they're one of two breeds of chicken whose roosters have multiple spurs! Like the Silkie, they also have black skin and black bones.
• Cocks weigh 2.25–2.70 kilograms, and hens about 1.80 kg
• Hens are poor layers with yearly totals of eggs amounting to about 100 white eggs a year, and are exceptionally susceptible to broodiness
• Both males and females have small to nonexistent wattles, and males often have multiple spurs on each leg.
• The breed is considered a primitive one; the Sumatra retains a strong flying ability, unlike most modern chicken breeds.
• The males will fight for dominance, though they usually do not fight to the death.