Open Contest Non-APA/ABA Bantam Rooster Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

[Birdlove2011]

#1
Breed: mixed
Color: blue & black
Sex: male
Age: 15 weeks
Name: T-Rex View attachment 4176891View attachment 4176892View attachment 4176890

Very handsome.

 

[Quacking ducks]

Very handsome.

Thanks

 

[BantyChooks]

#1
Breed: mixed
Color: blue & black
Sex: male
Age: 15 weeks
Name: T-Rex View attachment 4176891View attachment 4176892View attachment 4176890

Very cute.

 

[Slothinc]

Is there a minimum age for these show entries? Like are chicks/cockerels allowed or is it for roosters (1 year and older) only? Thanks! Beautiful entries so far!

 

[BantyChooks]

Is there a minimum age for these show entries? Like are chicks/cockerels allowed or is it for roosters (1 year and older) only? Thanks! Beautiful entries so far!

Cockerels are allowed - I would say 4-5 months is the minimum, as younger birds aren't going to have a fully developed body type.
Though this isn't the APA/ABA category, general disqualifications and deductions still apply. Something such as a narrow or pinched stance (a defect according to the APA points system for all breeds and birds) may be present in young birds but disappear as they get a little older.

 

[Pigeony]

Breed: Olandsk Dwarf
Color: mottled mahogany and black
Sex: male
Age: 8 months
Name: Orange Julius

 

[Slothinc]

I am between roosters right now, so here is this little cockerel. If he is DQ for age, that’s okay!

Breed: 1/2 silkie 1/2 bantam ameraucana (2nd generation cross)
Sex: Male
Color: Lavender (self-blue)
Age: Around 3 months
Name: Berry

 

[Pigeony]

I am between roosters right now, so here is this little cockerel. If he is DQ for age, that’s okay!

Breed: 1/2 silkie 1/2 bantam ameraucana (2nd generation cross)
Sex: Male
Color: Lavender (self-blue)
Age: Around 3 months
Name: BerryView attachment 4192278View attachment 4192279View attachment 4192280View attachment 4192281View attachment 4192282

Incredibly adorable! I just love everything about him.

 

[Slothinc]

Incredibly adorable! I just love everything about him.

Thank you! He really looks quite like an ameraucana bantam, but with the fibro gene, darker eyes, and fluffier, polydactyl feet. Getting him tested for blue egg gene, I hope he has 2 copies (25% chance lol!) I know he is really young for this contest, so again if he needs to be DQ that is completely okay! I just wanted to try and support the show and he’s my only For-Sure-Boy growout at the moment.

Your boy Orange Julius is gorgeous!

 

[Pigeony]

Your boy Orange Julius is gorgeous!

Thank you, he is a tiny gentleman. He accompanies his hens to the nestboxes and dances for them all day long. It's amusing to see, being that most of the hens in his group are standard-sized. He lives with a much larger Aloha rooster, but is surprisingly still the Head Rooster because the Aloha is very timid. He bosses him around despite being a third his size lol.

I named him Orange Julius because of how he looked as a hatchling, like a creamsicle.