Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[BantyChooks]

I sold the last of my turkeys, and once I'm back from vacation I'm going finish downsizing. Only bantams I'm keeping are Creles and Golden Sebrights (I hatched some that are 3/4 back to my Dad's line, and they're really nice).

I think if you seriously want to breed to standard, you need to limit what you're working with.

Absolutely. I have one variety of one breed that I'm keeping, and that's it. No more.

 

[jophus]

Absolutely. I have one variety of one breed that I'm keeping, and that's it. No more.

I'm keeping my Bielefelders and Swedish Flowers as well. No Anerican Standard for either though.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Our Dutch Bantam, we just call her Bantam. She is feisty and will fly up on your shoulder if and when she wants to. She is very broody, and has hatched out two batches of chicks. She turned one year old in March.

• Abriana
• Apr 26, 2017

This little lady here i think is Dutch Bantam, but she looks kind of like an OEGB. i was reading chicken book one day and i stumbled upon a picture of a Dutch Bantam and it looked so much like her that i thought for a moment, "how did these people get my bantam to take her picture and put it in this book?" She is super broody all the time, lays tiny white eggs, and has grey legs. I was wondering if she really is a Dutch Bantam or an OEGB? can anyone tell me?

Can't see the earlobes. That will eliminate one or the other as an option.

 

[Abriana]

Can't see the earlobes. That will eliminate one or the other as an option.

They are blue in the middle and then grow white gradually at the edges

 

[WVduckchick]

Still amazed after all the babies I've brooded this year at how much they change in just a week. This one is especially adorable and feisty today.

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One more weekish and I think we'll try a turnout with the big kids, now that everyone seems rather bored of each other already.

Looks like a pretty little girl to me!

Found one of my tiny male chicks dead in the run last night. Gone all day yesterday, been raining like cats and dogs for a few days. I had 2 little fellas that still hadn't gotten the hang of going up and down the ladder, so they would come to me at dark, and I'd put them in. It was just past dark when i got home and one was dead. Didn't see the other for sure, but pretty sure it was under momma in the coop. The one that died hadn't been thriving very well anyway, but i thought he was gonna make it. He was a cross of my SDW male and blue brassy hen.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Looks like a pretty little girl to me!

Found one of my tiny male chicks dead in the run last night. Gone all day yesterday, been raining like cats and dogs for a few days. I had 2 little fellas that still hadn't gotten the hang of going up and down the ladder, so they would come to me at dark, and I'd put them in. It was just past dark when i got home and one was dead. Didn't see the other for sure, but pretty sure it was under momma in the coop. The one that died hadn't been thriving very well anyway, but i thought he was gonna make it. He was a cross of my SDW male and blue brassy hen.

Oh no, so sorry to hear that! I'm surprised my chicks haven't had heartattacks after last nights wicked awful storm and today's hawk swooping over the run right after I let them out. They couldn't scramble fast enough to duck inside.

 

[TattooedChicks]

And happy news, that mushy chick is still alive and has actually grown bigger than its other buff broodmate.

 

[WVduckchick]

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And happy news, that mushy chick is still alive and has actually grown bigger than its other buff broodmate.

Great news! Been meaning to ask you about it.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

They are blue in the middle and then grow white gradually at the edges

Dutch then. OEGB have red earlobes.

 

[Abriana]

Dutch then. OEGB have red earlobes.

Thank you!