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Sumatra

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We raise Black Sumatra Large Fowl chickens.  We raise them for Exhibition.

The American Standard of Perfection 2010 list both Black and Blue as recognized colors for the Sumatra Large Fowl.  We showed against blue Sumatra at the poultry show in Oklahoma in December.

We have had both attack Sumatra roosters & hens and very sweet Sumatra roosters & hens.  Our Sumatra will follow us around in the yard and let us pick them up.  They love to talk to you and be around you.  We have found that they do not interact well with other breeds of chickens.  One of our Sumatra hens attacked a Hamburg pullet and cockerel and they both had a heart attack when she was fighting them.  She has always been a very aggressive chicken.

They can and will fly.  We had a pullet fly up on roof of our house but none of them have flown into any of our trees.  they stay pretty close to the coop area.  They free range well. 

The roosters will mess up the hens feathers pretty bad if you keep them together.  They do just well being separated.

Overall they are very sweet.  Easy to handle.  Easy to catch.  Easy to bath for showing.  Do not eat much.  Lay well if they have a light.  Some will lay more often if you let them out of their coops.  Even in the summer time with daylight they still need direct sunlight or they won't lay eggs.

The roosters need to have black combs and faces for exhibition.  If you leave them in a coop area that is shaded, the combs and faces will turn red.  It is quite difficult to keep them black without full sunlight and a lot of it.

Overall the information listed on Sumatras was accurate except for the American Standard of Perfection does have both Black and Blue accepted.