Japanese Bantam Thread!

[old for h lover]

Here's one of my Mottled Japanese Bantams. I'm still working on putting more mottling in them.

I think it looks good as it gets older it will get more white u might be able to show him for three years and I would never breed him to a hatchery bird he's to nice

 

[ML Bantams]

Yeah... This pic was taken last season. He molted out and now has Too much white for the show.

I'm still using him and hopefully this year I can breed his offspring back to him. Mottled is a funny color to work with. I don't have any hatchery birds. even though every year I see them in the feed store, I resist!

 

[fdavey]

Meet Jo. She's one of the Jap growers that hatched a couple of months ago from my pair of Silver:

I'm not going to sell her, since she's a lovely little thing. The colour was a complete surprise. But I was wondering if I should trio her with her parents (that sounds so weird) or buy a pair of Black-Tailed Whites (a friend of mine has some) and trio her with them instead.
Advice?

 

[Animaladdict12]

this is my little baby do u think he would be good for show

 

[ML Bantams]

I think it depends on what your goal is fdavey. If you're trying to show, I would keep her as your pet and not breed her (She can give you very little Omelets. lol) If that is not the case you could breed her back to her father. It sounds weird, but we do it all the time. It's called "line breeding" I personally would not cross her to a Black Tail White, I think that would just compound your color problems and dirty up the color of the BTW. That's just my opinion

 

[old for h lover]

It's a boy but its very young his colors will get better later on I agree they need alittle work that's a very hard color to work with I should know lease are my worst

 

[old for h lover]

It's a boy but its very young his colors will get better later on I agree they need alittle work that's a very hard color to work with I should know lease are my worst

They are baby's

 

[ML Bantams]

Good looking mottle animaladdict12. Its hard to tell the picture is kinda fuzzy and he's sitting weird. His type looks good. Next year he'll probably have more mottling and be a GREAT bird. My goal in my mottles is to have every back feather have a white tip and have no all white feathers. This is easyer said then done. All mottled birds get whiter with age. Its all about timing.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Just posting in this thread so it shows up in my list.

I am enjoying all the pictures and commentary.

 

[cuteubbi]

pls tell me its black tailed white jap bantam chicks or molted japanese bantam chicks?