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AREA OF ORIGIN: Persia

CATEGORY: Soft feather

EGG COLOUR: White, sometimes tinted

This breed of bantam was known to Aldrovandus over three and a half centuries ago and he called it the Persian fowl.  They were bred in many colour patterns, mostly clean legged and single combed.  The cocks should have true saddle feathers, the hen true cushion feathers.  In both sexes being curled over backwards, giving a rather peculiar appearance.  There must be a complete absence of the caudal projection, (pygostle bone) irreverently named as the Parson’s nose, and from which the tail grows, in both cock and hen.  They may be shown in various shaped combs, however, the single comb is the most popular and which is hereinafter described.

The Rumpless is sometimes known as Persian fowls. Feather-legged varieties of Rumpless have been shown under the name Barbu d’ Grubbe and Ruhlaer Rumpless.

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