Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[4 h obsession7]

does anybody have BROEGB's for sale?

 

[Jeansrie]

Your white chick looks just like the one we picked up from an "assorted bantam" bin at Atwoods. Does it have dark specks in the wings? The best guess I can come up with based off of searching the net is that it's a wheaten OEG. I attached a pic of ours.

Here are better pics of the suspected stowaways. Maybe the yellow one is a mille with a lot of white?

 

[diezel1]

How do I upload from photo bucket ???

 

[hickchick02]

Your white chick looks just like the one we picked up from an "assorted bantam" bin at Atwoods. Does it have dark specks in the wings? The best guess I can come up with based off of searching the net is that it's a wheaten OEG. I attached a pic of ours.

I can't tell yet. It is getting feathers in but they are still in the sheath. I think is what it is called.

 

[kynewbchickie]

Chandra, my largest/oldest SBOEGB hen, has gone broody on a nest of 6-7 eggs!!! I'm going to have babies running around everywhere!!!

 

[loveourbirds]

Chandra, my largest/oldest SBOEGB hen, has gone broody on a nest of 6-7 eggs!!! I'm going to have babies running around everywhere!!!

you can never have enough chicks running around LOL. I decided to keep all the bantams from my last hatch, all 60ish! I love watching them grow, and develop into their adult colors. guess that's what drew me to OEGBs. its like they never grow up, and have some awesome colors.

good luck with the hatch!

 

[kynewbchickie]

I have our layer flock of 21 (including 5 extra roos that will be dinner later this winter), the SBOEGB trio and what she hatches, and 18 eggs coming - I expect no more than 9 chicks to hatch from those, as the standard hatch rate for shipped eggs is around 50%. Those will be going into a third, separate coop and pasture as they're breeding/show stock. I think that'll do us for this season, unless someone wants eggs or chicks - LOL

My husband may make me go live in the big coop's loft if I hatch out anymore to keep!

Edited to say 21 layers - I totally forgot about the one we had to cull due to her obsessive self-cannibalistic behavior. She literally devoured 3/4 of her own back. :/

 

[loveourbirds]

we are trying to increase or breeder flock from 300-350 to 700-750 this year. of course this isn't just OEGB's. I play around with bantam cochins, some rare breeds in large fowl. and your every day egg layers. im also always working to improve what I have, so I raise a lot of chicks LOL.

 

[TW1Kell]

we are trying to increase or breeder flock from 300-350 to 700-750 this year. of course this isn't just OEGB's. I play around with bantam cochins, some rare breeds in large fowl. and your every day egg layers. im also always working to improve what I have, so I raise a lot of chicks LOL.

You sound like our flocks are very similar, but mine is only at the 125-150 stage. My Wifey thinks that I've lost my freaking mind! hahaha! I like oddities, endangered species, and birds with spectacular colorings/characteristics. Always a sucker for a new special breed! hahaha!

 

[loveourbirds]

im starting to look at rare breeds/new breeds a lot more. its getting harder to go to a show and find birds we don't have. this year ive added some lemon cuckoo orps, lemon cuckoo cochin bantams, rhodebars, Swedish flower hens (but im not sure any made it), Russian orloffs, salmon faverolles, and a couple others that aren't so rare.

its getting to the point here that I don't have to mow anymore. thought about making a "tractor" with a wire floor 2 -3 inches from the ground. wonder if the chickens would give my hard a manicured look?

people talk about "chicken math", the best I can remember here is how mine worked. (year 1) bought six chicks, bought 25ish more. (year two) hatched some bought some added more cages to hold around 250 and sold about 3000-3500. this is year 3, I have bought/hatched added to the point of about 600 semi permanent birds currently. some of these will be sorted through, the best of the stock will stay here as breeders, the "good stock" will be sold, the worst types and colors will be sold cheap or donated to local kids who want to get into farming.