Unexpected Bantam Chickens...Breeds?

[PittyLova]

Hey there! So, I had somebody stop by my house today asking if I wanted a couple of roosters. This is the kind of small town I live in, so it's not overly strange...although I'm still getting use to it being a city girl. I ask what kind and he says "I don't know, a Rhode Island Red and some fancies". I told him just to bring them over. Worst case I end up with a couple of stew birds. I was actually just on Craigslist looking for a rooster an hour before he showed up.

So he shows up with not 2 roosters but 3 roos and 5 hens. All bantams. I have a standard size flock and a single silkie roo I had planned to get rid of/or eat as he's not super tiny. So I have a few questions.

What breeds are these itty bitty birds? I can try to get better pix tomorrow it's dark and I didn't want to stress them too much.

Can they be integrated into a standard size flock or do I need to make them a separate pen? My birds are actually all very sweet and very welcoming of new comers. I actually have a couple who are drawn to any newbies and will hang out with them and show them the ropes. BUT I still don't know if it's a really bad idea? My birds free range 2 acres generally all day long (Cornish x, layers of all ages, muscovies, ducks, and a turkey all out together without incident). I'd feel bad having to keep these ones in a pen while everybody gets to go out.

My daughter plans on showing 4H with birds next fall. I actually purchased our first show bred bird this past weekend as we start to move partially away from the mixes. Please tell me that any of these can be used, because honestly I don't know what else to do with them. They're adorable, but everybody here has to earn their keep in one way or another.

So now the birds...

This is the group of them. The light colored ones I didn't get any individual pictures of. They look like mini americauna with fluffy toes to me. Americauna/Cochins? Or is this an actual breed?


There's this one who kept tucking her darker tail so I tried showing it...in the dark lol. She reminds me of my standard Welsummer and olive egger who's Welsummer/Ameracauna. She has the blue legs.

Don't mind my horrific face in the photo..my kid doesn't know how to focus on a bird it looks like. He has a rose comb

And the last guy

 

[JedJackson]

The light ones in the first two pictures are D'Uccle bantams. I think most are the self blue variety, but a couple of them might be the porcelain variety. 1 cockerel, 4 pullets.

In picture #3, you have either a black breasted red old English game pullet or a Dutch bantam pullet. OEG bantams should have white legs. Dutch bantams have slate blue legs and white earlobes. I can't see details in the phot well enough to say which yours is. She could also be a cross.

Picture 4 is a golden Sebright cockerel. He may be a cross because male Sebrights shouldn't have pinty saddle feathers or sickles in the tail.

Picture 5 looks like either an old English game bantam or Dutch bantam cockerel, or maybe a cross involving one or the other of those breeds.

 

[drumstick diva]

I go with Jed Jackson

 

[PittyLova]

Thanks so much! I've only ever seen/heard of the mille fleur d'uccle so they never crossed my mind. I think there are 2 blue and 2 porcelain pullets and the roo is perhaps porcelain after looking at pictures. This picture below looks EXACTLY like him:


The other pullet has slate legs so I'm guessing Dutch Bantam. I assume the Roos have slate legs as well for the breed? He has white legs so I'm thinking OEG. At least we have one group of the same breed?

 

[Alexandra33]

The light ones in the first two pictures are D'Uccle bantams. I think most are the self blue variety, but a couple of them might be the porcelain variety. 1 cockerel, 4 pullets.

In picture #3, you have either a black breasted red old English game pullet or a Dutch bantam pullet. OEG bantams should have white legs. Dutch bantams have slate blue legs and white earlobes. I can't see details in the phot well enough to say which yours is. She could also be a cross.

Picture 4 is a golden Sebright cockerel. He may be a cross because male Sebrights shouldn't have pinty saddle feathers or sickles in the tail.

Picture 5 looks like either an old English game bantam or Dutch bantam cockerel, or maybe a cross involving one or the other of those breeds.

X2.

I believe your Sebright is pure, just hatchery quality. Mine also sported the incorrect, pointed male plumage.

Enjoy keeping bantams! You're sure to love them.

~Alex

 

[Birds of a Feather]

I think the last rooster is an Old English Game Bantam. His legs are the wrong color for a Dutch Bantam.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Enjoy your new flock! What beautiful birds!

 

[PittyLova]

Enjoy your new flock! What beautiful birds!

Thanks so much! I think we're going to keep the D'Uccle's and rehome the others. My daughter wants a 4H project and figure they'll work for her to build from. I'm trying to avoid buying other bantams when I was just starting to plan my standard breeding program. It's too bad because they are all so adorable.

 

[JedJackson]

The light ones in the first two pictures are D'Uccle bantams. I think most are the self blue variety, but a couple of them might be the porcelain variety. 1 cockerel, 4 pullets.

In picture #3, you have either a black breasted red old English game pullet or a Dutch bantam pullet. OEG bantams should have white legs. Dutch bantams have slate blue legs and white earlobes. I can't see details in the phot well enough to say which yours is. She could also be a cross.

Picture 4 is a golden Sebright cockerel. He may be a cross because male Sebrights shouldn't have pinty saddle feathers or sickles in the tail.

Picture 5 looks like either an old English game bantam or Dutch bantam cockerel, or maybe a cross involving one or the other of those breeds.

I think you are right. My eyes aren't what they used to be and I couldn't tell the leg color too well. If the male has white legs, then he's OEGB. I don't see the white ear lobes on the Dutch bantam, but they might just not be visible in the photo. If they turn out to be red, then probably she's just a hatchery quality Dutch bantam. She also has spangles on her tail, which could mean the same thing.

 

[Missythechickenlady]

I think the last rooster is an Old English Game Bantam. His legs are the wrong color for a Dutch Bantam.

I agree my broody just hatched 3 oegb mixed with believe it or not australorp.