Japanese Bantam Thread!

[HenThymes]

Hi all, Please excuse me for breaking into this thread to ask a question for those who have experience with Japanese Bantams and I absolutely do not. I am an orp and serama girl.

Can someone tell me what the demand for Mottled's is?? I do not hear allot of talk about them nor do I see many pictures.

I have a friend that has come across a few and wants to learn more about them. TIA

 

[Chicken Frenzie]

^^ I have three! We got them on Halloween, and they were show birds! So their all specially traied, and let me touch them lift up their wings, but their so cute! And it's weird.. We have a black Jap and a black Austrolorp and they ook like Mommy and daughter! Same with a buff Jap and a ameraucana =P

 

[groveguy]

dun mottled

 

[HenThymes]

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Wow, I like your dun mottled, is that a recognized color to show??

 

[groveguy]

Thanks.
I don't show, so I haven't really checked to see if dun is an accepted variety. Does the Mottled variety always refer to only black and white birds?
All I know is that they've been a fun project for the past few years.

 

[buffbeauty]

Congrats to my mom Jenjscott for winning Best of Breed with her mottled Japanese hen at the JBBA Nationals in Shawnee, OK. today. She won several beautiful plaques and a huge gorgeous framed painting of a black-tailed buff pair.

 

[chrisf]

Wow!!!.....Way to go Jen!...................................................................chrisf

 

[jenjscott]

Thanks chris and dd, hopefully will have some younguns this spring from this hen and a new cockerel i just got at the HOTOPA show a few weeks ago. Also did well with BTWs 2nd place display with #1 cock and #1 hen. A once in a lifetime day for me.

 

[austinhart123]

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mottled is (as far as showing goes) a black bird with every other feather having a white tear drop shape on the end of it. most "mottled" birds you see are more of a black and white splash (birds with black feathers and several random black and white feathers)
true mottled is extremely hard to acheive.
i have a few mottled projects, blue, black, was even working on chocolate mottled serama, till my foundation hen died.

 

[exop]

Just wanted to put a word in about a cool article I found about the Japanese breeds. It doesn't go into a lot of detail about the Japanese Bantam ("Chabo" in Japan), but it gives a little context about the history of Japanese chicken breeds and the different classes of bird. There's also a cute picture of a Chabo rooster in Japan, though his tail is still growing out from a molt.

Best - exop