The Cinnamon Queen is a brown-egg sex-link bred for volume, giving 280 to 320 eggs a year from a compact, feed-efficient hen. Chicks sex by down colour at hatch, and the adult hen is a warm reddish-brown, often flecked with white through the neck and tail. Temperament is reliably docile and the birds take confinement well, which is why they turn up in so many first flocks. As with every production hybrid, expect two hard-laying years and then a steeper decline than a dual-purpose bird would show.
Beginner friendly
Good with kids
Cold hardy
Heat tolerant
Egg colorBrown
Egg production280–320 / year
TemperamentDocile
BroodinessRare
ClimateCold hardy, Heat tolerant
PurposeEggs
Weight
Hen4.5 lb
Rooster6 lb
How to spot it
Comb
Single
Plumage
Warm reddish-brown, often flecked white through the neck and tail
Single
