Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[zach N houdan]

I did well today at the show. It was an Old English district meet and there were a lot of them probably about 80 50 adult birds and 30 junior birds! I got reserve wheaten open and best blue wheaten and wheaten JR and reserve game JR. I also won Reserve in Show junior out of 300 birds with my Black Muscovy Hen

 

[loveourbirds]

congrats on the wins!

 

[TW1Kell]

Congrats, also! YAY!

Loveourbirds, I understand. I started building my 7th tractor, yesterday. I have pairs/trios of Bantams all over, and a few larger tractors (8x8x3) for breeding tractors for specific Standard chickens. I keep a roo and 2-3 hens in each large tractor. This tractor is the new Black Australorp house. I have smaller apartment houses for various Banties, and was given a pair of Birchen Cochins, this past week. They went straight to an apartment on an upper floor. hehe 13 little EE's got out to an apartment, today. They're ready for the slow transition out to the "Yard" with the standard egg-laying crew. My Black Jersey Giant trio gets yard time today, as they are now the size of my EE's and they're only about 8 weeks old. sheesh! I also have another Hospital apartment (5 doors) for anybody with special needs, such as getting beat-up by other hens, etc. They go in there to heal, then transition back out as they are able. Chickens can be so mean when they get one down. I have one hen, a Red Sexlink, that was beaten-up pretty badly. They haven't accepted her back in about 2 months. They gang up on her, every time I let her out for awhile. I have to stay close to keep them off, and she doesn't even try to fight back. She just hunkers down, and they peck away til I get there to pull her out. I'll never figure this part out, I guess. It's like I'm back on the prison yard kickin' convict arses. Military and correctional work makes ya see that side. I never thought of chickens being that way, but they are just like a close custody prison facility. IDENTICAL!

 

[kynewbchickie]

Wellllll.......
What I THOUGHT was 6-7 eggs under my broody is actually 10-11!!!!!! She's having a hard time keeping them all underneath her - should I take a few and put them in the incubator? I have room in the Brinsea for maybe 5-6 bantam eggs; I've got Lav/Split Ameraucana eggs in there now that were started about 4 days after my hen went broody. That would give me maybe a day of hatching the little guys before candling the others before lockdown - thoughts??

 

[CFellows]

Wellllll.......
What I THOUGHT was 6-7 eggs under my broody is actually 10-11!!!!!! She's having a hard time keeping them all underneath her - should I take a few and put them in the incubator? I have room in the Brinsea for maybe 5-6 bantam eggs; I've got Lav/Split Ameraucana eggs in there now that were started about 4 days after my hen went broody. That would give me maybe a day of hatching the little guys before candling the others before lockdown - thoughts??

Personally I would just leave them under the broody. Hens are amazing, they always have a better hatch rate then I do. I have had hens hatch up to 13 eggs with 100% success.

 

[blackTNgiants]

Hello everybody.. I went to a poultry swap about a month ago and seen some very nice OEG Bantams and since then i have been obsessed with the lil guy's well this past weekend i ran upon some at a sell and bought 2 young cockerels that i think are OEG. I think 1 is a BB Red and 1 is a BB wheaten but not sure. I would like yalls opinion on what they are please..and if yall could help with aging them also they both are about the same age both crow both try to breed the RIR bantam hens and their spurs are just lil bumps less than a 1/4 inch..

Here they are !!




Thanks..

 

[kynewbchickie]

Personally I would just leave them under the broody. Hens are amazing, they always have a better hatch rate then I do. I have had hens hatch up to 13 eggs with 100% success.

Thanks for the advice - I'll leave her be until I notice one or more consistently outside the Mama Fluff.

 

[loveourbirds]

does anyone have any good advice on darkening the lacing on blues, I cant seem to make up my mind to breed to black, or self blues. or is there something else I should be looking at?

 

[fishsticks]

my old english and cornish bantam chicks with their adopted silkie mother.

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[troyer]

Wellllll.......
What I THOUGHT was 6-7 eggs under my broody is actually 10-11!!!!!! She's having a hard time keeping them all underneath her - should I take a few and put them in the incubator? I have room in the Brinsea for maybe 5-6 bantam eggs; I've got Lav/Split Ameraucana eggs in there now that were started about 4 days after my hen went broody. That would give me maybe a day of hatching the little guys before candling the others before lockdown - thoughts??

In very warm weather I've had hens partially stand up off the eggs. I assumed because the eggs actually needed to be cooled off a bit. In especially in warm weather I've noticed that they don't always cover all the eggs. I've had many successful hatches even with that. It's not that the eggs necessarily have to be covered, they just need to be turned regularly and kept a certain temperature. I've had many hens hatch 14 chicks and raise all of them.