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Weighed all my bantams yesterday. Lightest male was 33 oz. the rest were around 40 oz. The lightest hen was 24 oz. but most were 27 oz. Looks like I've got to get the size down. If I had the camera with me I would've taken pics. The smallest hen I've got is a spangle (go figure).

This bird has spangling and dominant white. In D'Uccles and I believe Old English Game Bantams they call this "Gold Neck". The amount of white in the neck does make me wonder if this bird is also showing the columbian gene as well.

Those are indeed spangled.....but spangled on a different allele. They appear to be the birchen allele (in otherwords, brownred spangles. Which is the direction you want to head if you want mottled as the blacks are modified brown reds after all.

Yep that'd be him. Talking with him was one of the main things that made me decide to keep working with them. Things have been.....a bit nuts the last few years for me with moving back and forth a few times from two states and trying to manage the flock from afar so I haven't really been good at...

@ troyer - yep there are some spangles. They originate out of one of the Zook males I got that was spangled. @ cubalaya - the hen in the center is a spangle with a lot of white and some solid white feathers in her. I'm holding back the ones that have smaller/better formed spangling, but it...

I've never had the largefowl so I can't say which is better. I got a pair at a local auction several years ago as a project for my little cousin but that didn't last long. I like quite a bit about the bantams though, small, active, seem to be fairly hardy (watch it if it gets real cold but where...

I got to admit I'm way behind on reading this thread but since I had the camera out today I thought I'd post a few pics of my bantam Cubalayas. Most are this year's hatch but I haven't culled through them yet.

not to take away from current discussion, but would anyone on this thread be interested in pursuing "partridge" (as in b.b. red oegb color) cubalaya bantams? I have a male who I crossed onto a wheaton based hen last year and do not plan on using him, nor his partridge colored daughters.

Quote: I don't recall the name as I'm bad with names, but there is an older gent in lower Michigan who raises them. I sold him a pair last fall. He bred down largefowl cubalayas and put a tiny bit of old english game bantam in them at the very beginning. So if its the same man yes he still has...

Quote: likely a spangle. my spangled games go through stages where they will look almost like a paint horse at one point and nearly all white at another point before growing into their adult pattern. I hatched a bantam spangled Cubalaya pullet last year who looked like this when young also.

my cubalaya bantams, obviously still molting. I was adding more/new bedding as i was taking the pics. I've got a young trio I'll post pics of later.

very interesting. so how do you describe a "furness"? reason I ask is I've gotten several different replies about this coloration in the gamefowl world. what some call polecat others call furness and I've seen some deep blacks with red leaking through called furness as well.

beautiful birds! correct me if I'm wrong here, but shouldn't the first one's legs be slate? I know no bird is perfect, just trying to learn