My Nankin Bantam chicks

[Fluffy Lambs]

He's pretty I really like his deep coloring - his red is really dark and the green topcolor in his tail is gorgeous!. His legs look pale, but that may be a trick of the light. Are they slate or do they lean more towards white? If you breed darker legged hens to him, you should get closer to a true slate-blue leg in your chicks. That pink-on-slate leg coloring is hard to nail down!

Thank you! His legs are pure white (minus the pink stripe). Nanna has blue legs and has passed that on to a lot of her chicks (sired by Nathaniel).



Chick that already has the grey undercolor-


This baffles me- I bred Nathaniel to a mutt hen with yellow legs, so yellow x white legs. They're daughter, "Queen" Natalie, has the bluest legs ever!

 

[MROO]

I have another question for you, @MROO. If you use the ABA legbands, what size do get?

Nope, don't use them. I don't keep that many birds at a time, so a standard plastic bantam band works. I keep a written record of who has what color on which leg. I only have three breeding roos, right now and they're all different ages (1, 2, and 5) so they're easy to tell apart. I'm going to have to band the youngest one, though. He's right at that "If it moves, I'll mate with it" stage and my son likes to be prepared. For some reason, getting wet socks from a rooster just isn't his cup of tea ... if ya know what I mean ...

 

[MROO]

Thank you! His legs are pure white (minus the pink stripe). Nanna has blue legs and has passed that on to a lot of her chicks (sired by Nathaniel).
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Chick that already has the grey undercolor-
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This baffles me- I bred Nathaniel to a mutt hen with yellow legs, so yellow x white legs. They're daughter, "Queen" Natalie, has the bluest legs ever!
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Now, THAT's a pretty hen! LOVE that tail color! Does she have a pink stripe down her legs?

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Now, THAT's a pretty hen! LOVE that tail color! Does she have a pink stripe down her legs?

Thanks! No, she doesn't. Just blue. I can see some of Nathaniel's young chicks already getting the stripe though. Yeah, she is beautiful isn't she! She's Queen for a reason

 

[MROO]

Thanks! No, she doesn't. Just blue. I can see some of Nathaniel's young chicks already getting the stripe though. Yeah, she is beautiful isn't she! She's Queen for a reason

It sounds like your program is moving in the right direction. It's exciting!

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Nankin chick yesterday covering up a quarter (I don't know if it's pure bred, because there were some other hens with them, but this it what size all his chicks are)


It is able to cover a half dollar

 

[McDana]

Love these! This is the one I got from Simone

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Love these! This is the one I got from Simone

Thanks for sharing him! love his deep red! I hope mine have good coloring when they grow up!

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

I thought I had three little pullets, well today I discovered I had three little cockerels. hopefully I get pullets from Connie in the spring.

I put my new leg bands on two of them, one I didn't because it's legs are to small right now.

 

[Poodlemum]

Oh my gosh, those are TINY and gorgeous!!!!