Questions about breeding bantams

[holmes14522]

Good Afternoon,

This is my first year with owning chickens. We spent the end of winter, spring and up til now practicing with some tractor supply chickens. We are now looking to start breeding unique or harder to find chickens. Stuff that the farm stores do not care. My question today is I believe I have a silver duckwing old english game bantam rooster and I have a silver feather leg bantam hen. If I was to bred these two birds together would they be considered a mixed breed bird or as long as they are bantams I can market them as full breed bantam chicks?

 

[Better Than Rubies]

Hi there!

Well, yeah, they would be pure bantams; but not purebred birds...so, yes, just a mixed breed/hybrid (bantam).

 

[Birds of a Feather]

I'm not sure, but I believe that the chicks would be considered "crossbred" or "mixed breed" in this case. So you would probably get some very unique crossbred bantam chicks. They would be bantams, but mixed breed bantams (not full breed).

 

[holmes14522]

Thank you for your responses.