what cuties! i am veering off from my regular forums to ask here if ANYONE anywhere has knowledge of bantam BCM's????? Someone in oregon WAS doing that but no longer.....would be a serious success here!
I really don't know what I've got here, but this poor girl hatched from a bcm regular sized egg. I started to notice that she was smaller than the rest of her siblings at about 3 weeks, by 6 weeks she was only half the size of the rest, and at that time I moved her to a group of 4 week olds that matched her size because the larger juvi's were giving her a rough time. Now she is just about 12 weeks old and only half the size of the 10 week olds and getting picked on by them. I can only think of two different things that could have happened, either she is just a genetic runt or a bantam rooster that is free ranging here found his mark with one of my black copper marans hens. Now I have to find a safe haven for her until she gets older. The second pic is my suspect. My own curiosity is keeping her around to see what she finishes out as. She has copper hackles and lightly feathered legs, but the rooster in question is also a feather legged variety.