Hen
Rare ornamental · Long-tailed heritage
Sumatra
Iridescent, long-tailed, unlike anything else in the run.
An ancient ornamental bird with a green-black sheen and a flowing tail. Kept for beauty, rarity, and remarkable mothering.
HenIridescent, long-tailed, unlike anything else in the run.
An ancient ornamental bird with a green-black sheen and a flowing tail. Kept for beauty, rarity, and remarkable mothering.
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Every Sumatra hatch is currently reserved. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the moment new dates open.
Join the waitlistThe Sumatra is a bird kept for the sheer pleasure of looking at it. Brought from the Indonesian island that gives it its name in 1847, it carries a glossy, beetle-green-black sheen, a long flowing tail, multiple spurs, and almost no wattles — closer to a wild jungle fowl than a barnyard hen.
It’s listed as a conservation-priority breed, and we’re proud to help keep its bloodline going. Sumatras are active, alert, and strong fliers that like to roost high, so they do best with space and a secure, tall run rather than tight confinement.
They lay only about a hundred small white eggs a year — but the hens go broody readily and make superb, fiercely protective mothers, even for other birds’ eggs.
Ornamental first — kept for beauty and rarity, not volume of eggs.
Strong fliers that roost high; secure, tall runs are recommended.
Hens are exceptional broodies and protective mothers.