Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[KandiandJerry]

I also wondering that myself and I deal with a high quality breeder and shower of oeb and his advice to me was there is a usually white line that almost looks like a vein that curves around the comb (very visible) he told me to cut along that line and that is all you do I have a picture of a proper dubbed roo and a poor dubbed roo but have to have a email for you to send it

 

[KandiandJerry]

the objective is to have some rounding. at the back it is rounded and slopes down in the front at the beak but you dont want it to big and not rounded, and you dont want it flat,or convex or dished, and finally you dont want it to small..... these are from show standards.... there is a book you can order that is called old english game bantams as bred and shown in the united states it has everything you need to know the book is by F.P. Jeffrey and William Richardson it runs around 16.00 to 20.00 bucks and it is well worth having

 

[josh44]

Does anyone have pics of some exhibition OE Bantams ?

 

[wolfie115]

I have two OE hens, I know one is a Silver Duckwing the other I'm not sure of, any suggestions?

This picture was taken about year ago, my Silver Duckwing Sprite:

My other hen Rye:

Rye hatched two clutches this year, the first batch she hatched 2 of 4 but I lost one. The dad was supposed to be a Bantam Barred Rock, but he got like a Silver Crele color, rather than barring.

And the second clutch, not sure of these guys dad, they were free ranging with a lot more chickens when she started going broody.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Here You Go..
White

Brassy Back

Brown red

Blue Wheaton

Black

BB Red Hen

BB Red Cock

Columbian

 

[KandiandJerry]

great looking birds!

 

[sjarvis00]

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Thank You, we work very hard on all the varieties we have.

 

[KandiandJerry]

yes I know the feeling we have several breeds also and they are work..

 

[Ivywoods]

sjarvis00-Beautiful birds! Hey, you helped me quite a bit when I was trying to decide what to do when I built my stack of cages. Here's what I ended up with-

Second pic shows the inside a little better. The upper deck is made from a salvaged formica kitchen countertop. The lower cages are a little taller in case I need to separate some of my LF in there.

This pic shows one of the doors open and one of the removable dividers partially removed. All the pens have removable dividers, giving me quite a bit of flexibility for pen size.

I made these myself from all recycled materials, except the hinges, latches and paint. I have less than $40 into the project, $19 of which is paint. I can't cut a 45 degree angle and have things come out square to save my soul, so I did a "butt-end" type joint on the doors and glued and screwed it together and then overlapped the trim board over the joint. They turned out pretty strong. My DH did help me hold things together when I joined the door frames. Also, when I was getting ready to install the wire he surprised me by coming home from work with an electric staple gun.

Love that thing! Oh, yes, love him, too!

Overall I am happy with them, and am eager to get some of my birds into them. I have to move them to where they will be for the winter, and that is going to take my hubby's skidsteer to accomplish.

I have a trio of BBReds, two blue red pullets and two ginger red pullets. I think I may just stick with the BBreds. I like them the best.

 

[FarmGirl01]

Looks wonderful. Great job. It always makes me feel better when a project is made of scraps.

This projest cost only the price of the knobs.