Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[aalbury]

This thread was very educational! I'm new to bantams!

My daughter, 11, just bought 2 pair of OEGBs.

Wheaten:

Splash:

The Wheatens are a pair for female lines and the splash are for male.

My question, can she show the little wheaten roo in showmanship, un-dubbed? He is her favorite, and he's not SQ, only BQ. But showmanship is about displaying the bird, right? I have to read more.....any recommendations?

 

[Heather08]

ALICIA!!.... heehee color bud.... I am all over the OEGB thing, i got a Porcelian trio right now, you got some great new birds there, georgous! Im stalking around for a Mille fluer OEGB

 

[aalbury]

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HEY Woman!

YA???? WOOO, I wanna see!!!

 

[Heather08]

Here is the man...

I have been stalking eggbid there was a great little procelian hen and 2 beautiful mille hens that went last night , but i have to finish construction before I get any more , i have 4 black bantam orps coming I think tomorrow from tenn and i have some odds and ends in the bator right now. Will have some lavender orps put in bator today, but i have a huge soft spot ffor the OEGBs

 

[Heather08]

Oh gawd can forget my 2 little seramas, just got them a sand box today so they quit the dirt baths in their food LOL they are soooo cute.

 

[aalbury]

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OOOoo. I like....I know I'm already planning out how to build more coops for the wee ones....

 

[dntd]

Here are my babies

 

[Rowemblis]

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I wish I knew more about male and female lines, but anyway. You have 2 decent pairs of OEG's your splash to me look better then your wheatens.
I did showmanship until I was to old to do it, and have been helping my club with the JR's as well as judging JR showmanship. I've seen kids bring in crossbreds before, I've had a girl bring in a RIR bantam, Red Pyle OEG cross wich suprisningly looked like a white taild red OEG, anyway, it was undubed.

Now, you can do showmanship with him undubed, but, it's likely you won't place well. If he is a cockerel, (under a year old) you can get away with it, it's classifide as a "defect" when theye are cockerels, and a "disqualification" as a cock bird (over a year.) I think the OEG bantam club states "that all cockerels must be dubed by November 1st" that is, in order to be shown them more.
I would recomend having your doughter use your wheaten female or either one of the splash's, since it looks like your Wheaten male is also missing a "wing bow" wich is basicly a brownish bay color on the secondairys, in other words he's "crow winged"
All in all, it should be about fun more then anything.

Futer Tip:
some disqualifications and defects for the OEG bantams:
an undubed cock bird = disqualification.
a cock bird without spurs = disqualification.
and Im pretty sure "stubs" (basicly small feathers betwen the toes) is a disqualification, but im not sure now... might be a defect.
and for the wheaten variety of OEG bantam, a defect would be feathers with white in them.

 

[bantiesrule]

What would you get if you cross a self blue rooster with a mille fleur hen? Would it be a porcelain? How about a spangle hen? Thanks.

 

[LarryPQ]

I have 2 OEGB hens I hatched last summer. I am SOOO proud of my girls. I tell EVERYONE they are my laying powerhouses. They never seem to miss a day, and the eggs are just GYNOURMOUS compared to my LF. Mine are NOISY though--so proud everytime the drop an egg.

RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA !

I like them so much, on Tuesday I traded Cluckin_Crazy two young "cull" pullets from the Aloha project for a 2-year-old OEGB hen. No pics yet, but she is a BEAUTIFUL buff--and probably some sort of mutt since she has feathered legs and teeny weeny cheeks. Cluckin couldn't keep her because she was too loud for the subdivision. They named her "The Screamer". Her loss, my gain!

She can live out her retirement poking around the yard. No eggs required.

Anyway, here are my girls
Right after hatching:

A little older:

Second from the left (obviously)

My BO and OEGB laid their first eggs within minutes of each other.