Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[jossanne]

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Thanks GotGame, I know how blue color works, but I thought he's looking more blue than black. Time will tell... I was kinda hoping to get some splash in there, but none of them are.

 

[GotGame]

he very well could be blue, photos rarely capture color on a bird right...

 

[jossanne]

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No, she was a white polish. Isn't she cute!

 

[ModernGameGrl]

Hi everyone know this thread isn't very active but was hoping someone here might give me a little assistance on these birds. A friend of my mom's bought these for me at an auction over the weekend. I'm wondering about their quality if they are good enough to breed from. I think they're a little older because of the way the nails were on them the male had one spur that was almost a complete spiral before I cut it back and the nails on all of the where long and spiraling.

 

[GotGame]

you will have to get much better pictures before anyone can give you an educated guess on their quality...that first hen looks somewhat like a silver ginger, and the second picture shows a silver duckwing cock and a BB Red hen...totally different varieties of old english...

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Compare them to the chickens on this site, and it will give you a good idea of color, and if they are good quality or not. Its hard to get pictures that do the birds justice.

http://www.bantychicken.com/OEGBCA/

 

[operator16]

Questions about my silly rooster....

He's a little banty OEGB. He's just under a year old.

1. Why does he chase my gals and grab their ears and pull their wing feathers. He reminds me of a boy in junior high. They are all large hens and he's a tiny guy. I don't think they let him get too close. I haven't spotted one fertilized egg. He's a real booger! I did catch him sleeping under one of the gals wings one night. They pretty much kick his butt when he raises a ruckus! Is this typical??

2. He calls them over to a stick or broken pieces of plastic... (I try to keep all the trash picked up really well knowing they'll eat all kinds of stuff, but the wind never stops here and we get little things that blow in daily.

3. He's my only roo. However, I do have 30 some new chicks and suspect one may be a roo... Will I run into trouble if there is another guy in the garden? I don't have experience with the games before this little stinker came along. How will he handle that? Do you think he's be terribly aggressive?

(Even though I bad talk him, he's very gentle with me and is a riot to watch and listen to. His little crow cracks me up.)

 

[GotGame]

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1. He chases them and grabs them trying to do what he is bred to do, and he is trying to be the authoratative rooster...if he had hens his own size, he would grab them by the feathers on the back of the neck, and cover them....

2. Again, he is trying to get the hens attention, showing off, kind of a 'Look what I found!!'

3. Some roosters will get along after a day or two of scuffling, most of my old english cocks have gotten used to each other after a bit, you just have to stick around and make sure no serious blood is drawn or then all the birds in the pen will zero in on the wounded/bloody one...if birds, even roosters, grow up together, they are normally fine with each other, but around breeding time scuffles will break out again...I have ran roosters together and had no problems, and I have had a couple instances where a bird was almost killed...it is just a case by case thing...

 

[GotGame]

just a thought, if you get him two or three hens his size he can 'service', he may leave your bigger ones alone, but hey, a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do....

 

[operator16]

Ok. But, if I get him some girls his size what will happen if I end up having a full size roo from my current batch of chicks?

- Will the large fowl mate with the tiny girls and hurt them?

- Will the roosters be able to coexist? I don't know enough about the little OEGB breed to know how that little roo might be with other roos.

Any advice would be so appreciated!!