My Imported Black Bantam Rooster. He is such a ham for the camera.
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He is a very handsome bird!
He is real nice. Do you have a female also? I would be interested in 2 young males later on if you raise some.
Is he a pure black? I don't need a split.Don, I have some really nice imported hens also. Ive hatched lots of chicks. I am sure I will have some cockerels to send to you.
I've hatched quite a few myself and haven't seen anything like that in my chicks.I have a question about abnormality problems in chicks. Last fall I bought 6 two-week old bantam orpington chicks (of various colors) from a breeder on the East coast. Two of the six chicks were extreme runts and died within two months. They never grew larger than a two week old size chick. Nor did they ever got any pin feathers other than on their wings. Both chicks never looked sick but they never grew. The photo below shows chicks that are six weeks old including one of the extreme runts. Early this year, I bought a dozen chocolate bantam orpington chicken eggs from a breeder in the mid-West. I hatched seven of them. Again we had two chicks with abnormalaties. One of them has a cross bill. A second one had a large patch of downy feathers next to his rump until he was two months old -long past when the others lost all their down. The rest were healthy and thrived. Is this abnormality rate of 33% normal for any chicken breed or just for bantam breeds or for orpingtons in general? Or did I just get a high number of problem chicks?