Bantam breeds pro and cons

[Egg Snatcher]

Sebrights are actually a true bantam breed.

oh, I read in a bantam breeding book that they came from silver laced polish or a sliver spangled hamburg

 

[Amer]

oh, I read in a bantam breeding book that they came from silver laced polish or a sliver spangled hamburg

And Nankin and Rosecomb bantams.
True bantam simply means they have no largefowl counterpart. Since there are no largefowl Sebrights, they are a true bantam.

 

[my spoiled chickens]

@Egg Snatcher sebrights are a true bantam. The closest LF dupe of it is the wyondotte. The sebrights only come in gold and silver(even though people cross breed for other colors)

 

[Amer]

Buff Sebrights exist too, but yeah gold and silver are the main ones.
ETA plus I just thought of Citrons though those aren’t common in the US.

 

[my spoiled chickens]

Buff Sebrights exist too, but yeah gold and silver are the main ones.

That's cool, they must not be very common

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That's cool, they must not be very common

They're real pretty. I have one of them left, my others have passed on though

 

[Egg Snatcher]

And Nankin and Rosecomb bantams.
True bantam simply means they have no largefowl counterpart. Since there are no largefowl Sebrights, they are a true bantam.

I did know that a true bantam has no large fowl in it. Polish are large fowl though.

 

[Amer]

I did know that a true bantam has no large fowl in it. Polish are large fowl though.

No
A true bantam has no largefowl size, it can have largefowl ancestry. All breeds of chicken originate from the red jungle fowl which is not a bantam or a large fowl.

 

[calychicken]

I had a storm blow my steel man-door right off of the frame and a coyote took full advantage of it. I lost quite a bit of my flock, but not a single D’Uccle was injured or killed.

I had a Mille Fleur D'uccle cockerel that was taken by a hawk. We thought we was dead but turns out he fought the thing off in mid-air and dropped on the side of the road. I've also raised 2 frizzle cochin roosters, both turned out to be very bad fighters and aggressive mounters. My current flock is a silkie cross hen, 2 OEGB/Japanese Bantam hens, a sultan/frizzle cochin cross, a standard cochin rooster, and a frizzle cochin rooster. We get about 5-7 eggs a week from the ones that can lay currently (The silkie cross and the frizzle sultan). I keep them purely for pets, so we let them cross breed, and we actually get some cuties with good egg production sometimes!

 

[NatJ]

oh, I read in a bantam breeding book that they came from silver laced polish or a sliver spangled hamburg

It is a matter of whether the breed comes in two sizes (large fowl and bantam), not a matter of what ancestry they had.

There are large fowl Brahmas and bantam Brahmas, so the bantam Brahmas are not "true bantams." The same goes for Cochins, Wyandottes, and Cornish: those breeds all come in both large fowl and bantam.

There are bantam Sebrights but no large fowl Sebrights, so Sebrights are a "true bantam," no matter what size breeds were used to develop them in the first place.