I'd like to know the breed

[BuffOrps123]

Anyway hi lots a cluckin you helped me a lot you know your chickens! You're really helpful!

 

[hdmax]

No problem!!

Once I knew the chicken was a Silver Spangled Hamburg, it was so easy to find pictures identifying it. The hatcheries should give information on the free bird that is sent.
Would this be considered a bantam? The search I just did shows that the roosters get to about 5 lb. That would be a very big bantam, wouldn't it?

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Thanks I have learned everything I know from BYC and other various websites. Just read and you will gain a better knowledge about chickens I have only owned chickens for 18 months but I started reading and learning about them months before I bought them

 

[BuffOrps123]

It looks like a bantam in the picture... A small bantam at that! I'm surprised its not a bantam!

 

[BuffOrps123]

I have owned chickens for six years! I have never come across that breed? Is it rare?

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

they are not very rare but they are also not too common....there is about 5,000 of them in the U.S and about 10,000 world wide...they are a heritage breed and most heritage breeds are harder to find than others such as an amerucana.

 

[BuffOrps123]

Ok thank you, I was thinking of getting one but since they are a little bit rare, no. I don't get rare chickens, I can't breed them, because I've already got 18 in my garden and I can't fit many more!

 

[hdmax]

I guess I should have mentioned that this Silver Spangled Hamburg is just 12 weeks old, so he will get much bigger. Right now he is about 2 3/4 lb.
If I end up keeping him, I'd like a couple hens for hatching out eggs.

 

[Wyandottes7]

You have a large fowl (not bantam) Silver Spangled Hamburg. It seems as though they are very common Mcmurray "mystery chicks". I've seen at least three other people on BYC that have gotten a Hamburg for their mystery chick.