Old English game or Quail?(poll)

[Broodygranny]

I was given some old English game Bantum chickens. Now I have a delema. I have too many birds and chores take forever. I have decided to get rid of my jumbo brown quail or the old English game bantum. I like them all, so it's really hard to decide. Any I don't keep, I will make sure they get a good home. What would you keep?

 

[Broodygranny]

The hen in with the lemon blue rooster is lavender. This was at dusk, and in the photos she looks white, but she is not. It's a lavender grey.

 

[Gray Farms]

Your Lemon Blue male is actually a Blue Breasted Red. And the Black Mottles have way to much white, if your breeding to standard if not that's ok too. If it were me personally I would keep the quail. They would be more cost effective when you compare feed cost and time spent doing chores versus meat and egg output.

 

[Broodygranny]

Your Lemon Blue male is actually a Blue Breasted Red. And the Black Mottles have way to much white, if your breeding to standard if not that's ok too. If it were me personally I would keep the quail. They would be more cost effective when you compare feed cost and time spent doing chores versus meat and egg output.

Thank you for letting me know what color the blue breasted red too is! I have not seen one that color before, so I really didn't know what he was. The mottled ones are white as chicks, so I thought it was a white based color? I am not breeding for show, so I am just curious. Thank you!

 

[Gray Farms]

That's great, they are beautiful birds. I don't envy you decision deciding what to get rid of. I've done some cutting back the last couple years myself. Its never fun.