Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[sue25]

Here are my babies now 3 girls and a boy.

 

[WVduckchick]

More babies doing well

 

[TattooedChicks]

Growing up fast! They change so much in a week.

 

[jedichick]

Okay please forgive my ignorance because I'm very new to this... Somehow this little guy got mislabeled or tossed in with a group of week old brown leghorn pullets. When he started crowing we assumed we had a brown leghorn roo (one of the 10% that sneaks through). Then when all my pullets outgrew him we figured he must be a brown leghorn bantam. Finally today (he's exactly 15 weeks old) we figure out that his red earlobes means he can't be a brown leghorn at all, so he was COMPLETELY lost in that pen with all brown leghorn pullets! I've searched the interwebs, and I'm now thinking he's an OEGB (maybe... I clearly have proven I have no clue what I'm doing!). He doesn't look exactly like any of the pictures I found via the google machine, but he's definitely a tiny thing (that's my 13 week old Easter eggers in the background for comparison). We had no plans of keeping a rooster, but despite him being as loud as can be, we are planning on keeping him bc he's an excellent rooster and keeps all my ladies in order.

If any one could chime in and tell me their opinion (on if he's in fact an OEGB, the type, or anything else that might be helpful - since I've been researching the wrong breed for 15 weeks like an idiot...) I would much appreciate it!!

 

[Mrs Howey]

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Okay please forgive my ignorance because I'm very new to this... Somehow this little guy got mislabeled or tossed in with a group of week old brown leghorn pullets. When he started crowing we assumed we had a brown leghorn roo (one of the 10% that sneaks through). Then when all my pullets outgrew him we figured he must be a brown leghorn bantam. Finally today (he's exactly 15 weeks old) we figure out that his red earlobes means he can't be a brown leghorn at all, so he was COMPLETELY lost in that pen with all brown leghorn pullets! I've searched the interwebs, and I'm now thinking he's an OEGB (maybe... I clearly have proven I have no clue what I'm doing!). He doesn't look exactly like any of the pictures I found via the google machine, but he's definitely a tiny thing (that's my 13 week old Easter eggers in the background for comparison). We had no plans of keeping a rooster, but despite him being as loud as can be, we are planning on keeping him bc he's an excellent rooster and keeps all my ladies in order.

If any one could chime in and tell me their opinion (on if he's in fact an OEGB, the type, or anything else that might be helpful - since I've been researching the wrong breed for 15 weeks like an idiot...) I would much appreciate it!!

I found a picture of a blue red old english game bantum. Looks just like yours. I have red pyle OEGB bantums and the similarities between your roo and mine made me think yours is an OEGB. I searched if red pyles can come in black and found the blue red OEGB.

 

[jedichick]

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I found a picture of a blue red old english game bantum. Looks just like yours. I have red pyle OEGB bantums and the similarities between your roo and mine made me think yours is an OEGB. I searched if red pyles can come in black and found the blue red OEGB.

I hadn't considered that possibility yet. Recently he has definitely started developing some purple tint to his tail and wing feathers, but his body is still black. I've added some additional pictures of him from when he was younger (from 2 weeks to 10 weeks old) to see if that helps at all.

My locally owned feed store where we got him uses Ideal Poultry's Hatchery. Looking at Ideal's website I was thinking he best matched a mahogany OEGB, but I haven't been able to find a picture of one outside of the drawing they provide on their website.

 

[jedichick]

And just for overkill...

Here's some more of him current day to show his breast and body colors a little better.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

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Here's some more of him current day to show his breast and body colors a little better.

Scroll down about 2/3 of the way and there is a picture of a Mahogany rooster. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/GameBantams/BRKOEGBantams2.html
I think he is either that or just BBR. Either way, if he is behaving well, he is a keeper. I love my OEGB roosters. Most of mine came from Ideal.

 

[jedichick]

Scroll down about 2/3 of the way and there is a picture of a Mahogany rooster. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/GameBantams/BRKOEGBantams2.html
I think he is either that or just BBR. Either way, if he is behaving well, he is a keeper. I love my OEGB roosters. Most of mine came from Ideal.

Thank you so much! That site was very helpful!! So far he is an excellent roo (and despite being only 1/4 their size), he keeps the ladies in line and doing what they're supposed to (I'm actually shocked that they all mind him so well!). I will say that him and the 3 pullets he's with now all act like I'm actively trying to murder them (despite them being with a family that will probably bury them when they die of natural causes...) but none of them are mean. They're just scaredy cats! I've got one baby chick that's only 5 weeks old (a white leghorn hybrid to replace the unexpected rooster), and she's my one and only chicken that likes me and is super friendly. For now, she's separated from the others until she's bigger, but hopefully in a few weeks he will take her into his harem and care for her too without any problems (and not make her scared of me too)!

 

[sue25]

Here's my BBR boy.