Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[jophus]

I've never been to Arkansas, maybe I can talk my wife into a mini vacation trip.

Let me know. Northwest Arkansas is beautiful, lots to do and see here. I'm actually going to vacation on the East Coast this year. I spent some hard time in South Carolina, at Ft. Jackson, lol.

I hatched close to 100 OEGB chicks last year. Let the biggest part of them go. Kept the ones I wanted to breed back. Would love to get to the point I can sell and ship, just not there yet.

 

[abbevilleoz]

Let me know. Northwest Arkansas is beautiful, lots to do and see here. I'm actually going to vacation on the East Coast this year. I spent some hard time in South Carolina, at Ft. Jackson, lol.

I hatched close to 100 OEGB chicks last year. Let the biggest part of them go. Kept the ones I wanted to breed back. Would love to get to the point I can sell and ship, just not there yet.

Yep, I've spent a lot of time in the Columbia, SC area training, too. Hottest place in the southeast in the summer. My kids are older now and me and my wife hopefully will have more time to getaway......and get more chickens....

 

[Rocky64]

Hello all, I've been thinking of getting some old English game bantams and done some research and I've read some stuff on here, but anyway is there anything special I should know before getting some, I know that the roosters shouldn't be kept together, but is there any other special requirements that I should be aware of? It's worded kinda funny but I think you know what I'm getting at, like basic information on the breed and stuff. Thanks in advance.

 

[jophus]

Hello all, I've been thinking of getting some old English game bantams and done some research and I've read some stuff on here, but anyway is there anything special I should know before getting some, I know that the roosters shouldn't be kept together, but is there any other special requirements that I should be aware of? It's worded kinda funny but I think you know what I'm getting at, like basic information on the breed and stuff. Thanks in advance.

You can keep roosters together that have been raised together with very little problem. Once, one is removed, even for a short period of time, then returned it's on.

OEGB are quite capable in flight, both in height and distance. I have some small hens that can almost hover. Keep that in mind when building pens.

Show quality chicks can be harder to hatch and raise compared to larger fowl. They're not much bigger than quail at hatching, so keeping them warm, fed and hydrated is really important. They're not as forgiving as some bigger chicks. Once they're 4-5 months old, they're hard to kill, lol.

My hens lay every other day on average. Small white or tinted eggs. Once they go broody they're hard to break up. Their small size limits the amount of eggs they can hatch, but I've had 4 hens brood large clutches together.

 

[jophus]

White OEGB roo, 8 months old and almost 19 oz. Doesn't look that large.

 

[Rocky64]

You can keep roosters together that have been raised together with very little problem. Once, one is removed, even for a short period of time, then returned it's on.

OEGB are quite capable in flight, both in height and distance. I have some small hens that can almost hover. Keep that in mind when building pens.

Show quality chicks can be harder to hatch and raise compared to larger fowl. They're not much bigger than quail at hatching, so keeping them warm, fed and hydrated is really important. They're not as forgiving as some bigger chicks. Once they're 4-5 months old, they're hard to kill, lol.

My hens lay every other day on average. Small white or tinted eggs. Once they go broody they're hard to break up. Their small size limits the amount of eggs they can hatch, but I've had 4 hens brood large clutches together.

Oh that's really great that roosters raised together won't have much problem because I'll most likely get them as chicks so I won't have to get more pens if there's more than one rooster. The flying part won't be much of an issue because I have netting I can put over their pen. Can they squeeze through chain link fences? That's the pen I'm gonna use, I'll post a picture in a bit. I probably will let one of my silkie hens raise them for awhile( if one is broody at the time I get them) before I put them in their own pen for good. That's pretty good egg production for bantams. Yeah I have silkies so I know all about those stubborn broodies lol. Thanks for all the useful information, it really helped

 

[Rocky64]

Here's the pen I was thinking of using, please excuse all the junk lying around. As I said I'm gonna put netting over top, and I'm gonna build a shelter of some kind that they can sleep and lay eggs in.

 

[jophus]

I use hardware cloth on my pens to keep predators from being able to get at my birds. Raccoons are notorious for eating birds through the wire.

 

[Rocky64]

I use hardware cloth on my pens to keep predators from being able to get at my birds. Raccoons are notorious for eating birds through the wire.

Oh yeah we have coons here for sure, but don't they only attack at night? The birds will be in the coop by that time so I wouldn't think coons eating through the wire would be a problem. And I'll probably have a live trap set 24/7 outside the pen just in case.

 

[Alex1010]

Oh that's really great that roosters raised together won't have much problem because I'll most likely get them as chicks so I won't have to get more pens if there's more than one rooster. The flying part won't be much of an issue because I have netting I can put over their pen. Can they squeeze through chain link fences? That's the pen I'm gonna use, I'll post a picture in a bit. I probably will let one of my silkie hens raise them for awhile( if one is broody at the time I get them) before I put them in their own pen for good. That's pretty good egg production for bantams. Yeah I have silkies so I know all about those stubborn broodies lol. Thanks for all the useful information, it really helped

If you get them as chicks they'll definitely squeeze through there. You'll have to put chicken wire around the bottom.