I'm currently trying to hatch offspring of my young japanese bantam couple and encountering reoccuring problems on day 18/19 .
I originally set 8 eggs, 4 not fertile (young hen and rooster), 2 dying around day 10/12, I think, (maybe related to shortleg creeper gen) but two made it to lockdown...
As I haven't found many sources for my questions, I present you a little side project; showing the color development of some Japanese bantam chicks from this year in a color chart.
The first three are red millefleur on eWh based birds, 4 and 5 red millefleur on eB birds, then black mottled...
Hello everyone, I have a slate blue pullet, and the tail feathers seem to have some kind of barring, black on blue - any explanation how that works? As blue should turn everything black into blue?
I collected fertile eggs from some of my new hens and incubated them. I don't know the rooster, just the hens. I got three funny colored cream/buff colored and a young black hen with distinct light brown lacing in the neck and breast feathers. Any guess to their genetic origine is welcome. The...
I'm new to black colored breeding, so I hope you may have some answers for my questions.
I recently got a black faced black japanese bantam and a chocolate bantam hen. They were with, I think a black or chocolate or fibromelanotic rooster where they came from, so I collected the eggs of the...
I found a 4 week old chick yesterday tumbling and stumbling around, with balance problems and neurological crises.
Well aware it could be something serious I separated her and kept her in for the night. Yesterday she was very tired and picked bait of food. I tried to gave her a mix of VitE and...
4 years ago I fell for mottled bantams, the tiny colorful Japanese mille-fleur bantam to be precise...
I saw them sold in a near village but I arrived too late and all mottled ones were already sold. I went home with a wheaten rooster (apparently offspring of the mottled one - and yeah, I was...
Hello everyone,
I'm living in the eastern French countryside and just began breeding my own chicks.
I fell for the adorable Japanese Bantams a while ago and when my flock started to fade (thank you Mr Fox) I wanted to add some new ones but I had trouble to find around here. So after 1 1/2 years...