Dumpies used to be known as Bakies, Crawlers & Creepers. This ancient breed comes from Scotland and may have existed 700 years ago! Dumpies have a dwarfing gene, which produces their unique short legs, similar to the Dexter cow and the Japanese bantam. This makes dumpies great backyard birds, as they won’t scratch up the grass or garden. This docile breed comes in a variety of colors with the most common being black, cuckoo, white and blue. Comb, face, wattles and earlobes are bright red. Beak, legs and feet are white, except in the black variety where they should be black or slate, and in the cuckoo, mottled. Dumpies have large, low, heavy bodies, which is longer in the back than other breeds. A bantam size is also available. Because…
