Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[Rach4]

not sure how old my babies are but I am proud of them, they don't have much color to them all though Dookie (hen) is starting to have brown tinge coming threw, alongside her green and
black. Buba has only a green tinge but I'm sure as you all know that their personality makes up for the colouring, besides I love black chookies


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[WVduckchick]

not sure how old my babies are but I am proud of them, they don't have much color to them all though Dookie (hen) is starting to have brown tinge coming threw, alongside her green and
black. Buba has only a green tinge but I'm sure as you all know that their personality makes up for the colouring, besides I love black chookies


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Pretty!

 

[microchick]

I need help from people in the know. To make a long story short, an Amish neighbor gave me 8 hatching eggs. I have been admiring his flock as we drive by his farm. The roosters are smaller than my robust Buff O and Welsummer flock leading me to believe that they were OEGBantams. He said he wasn't sure, somebody had given him a rooster wanting him to breed fighting birds for him and he didn't want to do that and what I was seeing were that rooster's descendants.

Well, my Buff O hen hatched out 5 of 8 eggs and now I don't quite know what I've got. The chicks are about the size of my Buff O chicks. Not as fluffy but height is very close.

There is a pic of mom and babies that I took yesterday:


One of the Buff O chicks is standing by the far edge of the scrambled egg dish. The little chick in the back is one of the 5 in question. One little one that is mottled dark is under mom. They were 4 days old in this picture. Given that there is a chance that there is some good old barnyard mix in them what do you think I have? I won't be disappointed no matter what they turn out to be. They are adorable.

I was thinking that they are large for bantams but if they are OEG bantams crossed with a standard bred chicken at some point they might be right on the mark.

 

[WVduckchick]

@microchick do you happen to have any pics of the neighbors birds? Or could you maybe get some? The adults would be easier to identify, for me at least.

But the little chipmunk striped chick in the video looks like my mixed OEGBs and my silver duckwings. The pattern also makes me think male. The blurred lines and lighter eyeliner stripes are usually boys.

Cute as little buttons though! Congrats on the hatch. Pretty momma hen too.

 

[microchick]

Thanks, WVduckchick. I might be able to get some pics but it won't be easy. They are after all, Amish birds, LOL.

The reason I was trying to hatch some of these chicks was the fact that our neighbor's birds look 'smaller' to me than any of my Buff O, Welsummer or cross bred cockerels and hens. I have friends who want bantams so I was trying to hatch these for them but I gotta feeling they aren't pure bred which means I got em which is fine with me.

As for the chick in the movie being a little cockerel, of course it is! LOL. My last three hatches have all been 8 chicks. First group of 8, 7 cockerels and 1 pullet. Second group of 8, 4 pullets, 4 cockerels. 3 group of .....they are all probably cockerels. Why? Because word has gotten out that I like roosters and since God really does have a sense of humor, of course they are all males!

 

[Dmontgomery]

Forgot to post a photo of Henrietta's 2nd hatching this summer. Her first chicks were only about 6 weeks old when she went broody AGAIN! She sat through 100 degree heat for 29 days until we finally found some day old chicks to put under her. They are 2 weeks old today. Lord I hope she doesn't try to go broody again this fall.

 

[microchick]

She really has an eye on those chicks. I had a hen go broody last December. I was able to break her until February when she went broody again. I let her set eggs but it took a lot out of her. I hope she doesn't do the same thing this winter.

 

[WVduckchick]

Darryl decided to perch up on my chair

he's so funny


my little silver duckwings, with my dog watching on

 

[microchick]

Very Pretty!

 

[Chickens4lifee]

Darryl decided to perch up on my chair

he's so funny


my little silver duckwings, with my dog watching on

I have 1 siver duckwing hen but I think they are beautiful and looking forward to getting some this spring!