Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[SilkiesForEver]

Wow. Mine is the opposite of what you said @suyoder . He is also mixed OEB, he has feather feet.

My pullet. His sister. No feather feet.

And the duck wing OEB, don't know her color. She doesn't grow at all!

Duck wing is a color. She looks like a silver duckwing.

 

[suyoder]

Here's my newly acquired Old English Game Bantams! What would their official color be? And what are your thoughts of them? They are super sweet!! They are a year old, and the Roo is Solomon and the hens are Henny and Penny.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Here's my newly acquired Old English Game Bantams! What would their official color be? And what are your thoughts of them? They are super sweet!! They are a year old, and the Roo is Solomon and the hens are Henny and Penny.

Personally, I don't think those are OEGBs. They look like Dutch bantams instead. This is a cream dark brown dutch bantam I found on google.

 

[suyoder]

Personally, I don't think those are OEGBs. They look like Dutch bantams instead. This is a cream dark brown dutch bantam I found on google.

Lol - just my luck. I don't really care... But i would like to know. any other thoughts?

 

[ShelbyCoral]

What are my white ones? They are mixed breeds but what are they?

 

[JeanR]

Your "OEGB trio are indeed Dutch Bantams, but maybe hatchery stock, not very good type (as you can see from the cockerel TYPE that was Googled). Not to worry, they will be lovely pets--just do not cross them with your "white", that are just "backyard banties",again lovely pets. No feathered feet on OEGB or Dutch!

The pictured "googled" cockerel is a Light Brown Dutch. He is not a Cream Light Brown, and Dutch do not come in"dark brown-anything". He may be a "cross VARIETY IN Dutch,as his color is not very good, but pictures can be very deceptive. Dutch varieties are not to be crossed except to very limited rules. A unique breed, hatcheries have made crossed varieties (and crosses with OEGB--that are not compatible with Dutch at ALL) common, but not suitable for Show or breeding true DUTCH. Enjoy them all!

 

[ShelbyCoral]

I don't intend to breed the two or show them. I just want to know what they are. xD They have pale faces to btw. White feet and legs.

 

[suyoder]

Your "OEGB trio are indeed Dutch Bantams, but maybe hatchery stock, not very good type (as you can see from the cockerel TYPE that was Googled).   Not to worry, they will be lovely pets--just do not cross them with your "white", that are just "backyard banties",again lovely pets.   No feathered feet on OEGB or Dutch! 

The pictured "googled" cockerel is a Light Brown Dutch.    He is not a Cream Light Brown, and Dutch do not come in"dark brown-anything". He may be a "cross VARIETY IN Dutch,as his color is not  very good, but pictures can be very deceptive.    Dutch varieties are not to be crossed except to  very limited rules.    A unique breed,  hatcheries have made crossed varieties (and crosses with OEGB--that are not compatible with Dutch at ALL) common, but not suitable for Show or breeding true DUTCH.     Enjoy them all!

Ok, I'm having trouble seeing any difference between my cock and the Googled one. Except maybe mine is only a year old and not as mature as the other one, and my cocks picture is taken in natural light and he doesn't look as glossy. I'm curious what diffrences you see?

And yes, he is hatcherystock, and I don't really care about color... I'm not going to show my birds, and hey, everyone has to start soMewhere!

 

[JeanR]

Takes time and eye to see that these 2 males are shaped very differently: Note, the size of the tail and how it is attached to the back. Length of legs. Wing size and shape, one is high held above the legs, the other is wide and low, almost touching the ground. The saddles are different, narrow on yours, wide and longer on the other one. White ear lobes are not very good on either, a little better on the goggled picture. Combs, okay, but not the best on either. Dutch is not a color or white lobes and blue legs as the defining "look". Odd feather color on your cockerel, and the googled bird is in poor plumage at the time this picture was taken. More differences from real Dutch look--no matter. Yes, enjoy the birds! We all begin someplace. And most do not care to go for the 'true Dutch", just call their bantams "okay" for their pleasure. My first ones were OEGB crosses and took several years before I dumped them all (well most of them, just never bred the few I liked and kept to old age). Found I could pay for feed by raising the best I could, and now 25 years later, still choose the best for keepers for breeding--and still have 10-11 year old hens that have not layed for a long time, and are just "real nice hens". And they were great broodies for the ones wanted to increase numbers. Good luck. All chickens would be mongrels, mixes, that were never segregated, if some breeders did not keep each breed with genetic traits that keep them "individual breeds". So the Show people do a lot of the work of keeping beautiful named breeds of Bantams and Large Fowl, Turkeys, Geese, Dutch--all fowl--and we love those birds! But as CHICKENS, we like them all!

 

[JeanR]

Oh, and the pullets, yes, are dutch also, but have pinched tails, not typical of a "true Dutch"--the trio shows cross breedingand hatcheries do this, producing odd colors and patterns, and do not know this when they send out day old chicks--can't tell what they will be when they feather out!! Several hatcheries breed their own "dutch" until no one buys them any more because they are not typical Dutch. And other hatcheries buy eggs, depending upon the sellers listing of variety--and even the best breeder cannot tell what will hatch from any one egg! Still, we could not manage without HATCHERIES. For fryer, roasters, layers, they are essential to us all. And chicks that are not sold at hatch day, are either destroyed, or are the "extras" that they include in case of loss during shipping. What would be do without chickens??