Japanese Bantam Thread!

[CarolinaHen]

Can you not keep the cockerels where you live?

For me I like the cockerels the best!!! They have the beautiful colours and that's why I keep this breed.

The will not fight if you house them all together in a large run.. or free range them.....

Just don't put any hens in with them!!!!

I can keep them, but not all are show quality and there is no way I need that many cockerels running around. We also have Seramas and our layer flock. We are keeping the two best SQ cockerels.

 

[wolftracks]

Here's one that's a little better, but he still wasn't even crowing at this point. (He was just starting the strangling sound.

) I really DO need to update my pics now that the ground isn't frozen!

I need knew pics too. Lowrider still has the gargling crow and he's a;most 3. One of my neighbors loves his crow. LOL Thank goodness, cause he could have said it was irritating. Do these eBay sellers have SQ stock? I need that or at least BQ.

I got three dozen eggs from a breeder. 27 hatched. 24 of them are cockerels!!!!!!

We made the final culls yesterday and will be keeping a gray cockerel, a mottled cockerel, and the three pullets. Now to find homes for 22 cockerels...............

OMG! I've so been there. Thankfully I live 2 blocks from a poultry auction. LOL

Hello
Could you tell me which color are this chicks (japanese bantam)?

Black Mottled. They start off yellow with maybe a black spot here and there, then the feathers start coming in white, with black splotches and then the black takes over and the white becomes the freckling. I love watching mine feather in. They're really cool to watch with all the changes.

 

[Bweis13]

I need knew pics too. Lowrider still has the gargling crow and he's a;most 3. One of my neighbors loves his crow. LOL Thank goodness, cause he could have said it was irritating. Do these eBay sellers have SQ stock? I need that or at least BQ.

OMG! I've so been there. Thankfully I live 2 blocks from a poultry auction. LOL 

Black Mottled. They start off yellow with maybe a black spot here and there, then the feathers start coming in white, with black splotches and then the black takes over and the white becomes the freckling. I love watching mine feather in. They're really cool to watch with all the changes.

Wolftracks, my roo has very long legs for a Japanese, so I don't think this breeder has SQ stock. We don't show, and we wanted a gentle rooster. He sure is that! He's clucking to our pullets and showing them where the goodies are. He's so cute!

 

[wolftracks]

Since I haven't posted or even taken pics in a long time, I thought I'd share a pair of chicks that are 2 weeks apart.

 

[SimpleHavenSara]

Got this chick from the animal shelter. They thought it was a Delaware because of the coloring but now I'm pretty sure, judging from pictures that this is a female BTW Japanese bantam. Am I right or am I in denial? We got "her" the first day of April and the shelter thought because of feathers that "she" was possibly 3 weeks. Thoughts on age? I am very very new to chickens.

 

[CarolinaHen]

HE is a pretty boy.

 

[Sagetown]

He's probably about a t 7 to 8 weeks old cockerel. The Comb and Wattle growth is the tell tale sign. Pullets usually don't show much growth in those areas until they become fairly old.

 

[SimpleHavenSara]

Thanks for the input. The pictures on the rock wall were after I had already had it for 9 weeks. How old would you guess it was in the picture with the red dish in the blue bin?

 

[SimpleHavenSara]

Will/can a Japanese Bantam rooster mate with full sized non-bantam hens?

 

[CrookdBeak13]

Will/can a Japanese Bantam rooster mate with full sized non-bantam hens?

Mine sure does try! He hasn't been successful as of yet, more just pretends to be a rodeo rider!