Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Greg Richardson]

Every school admins dream recording.....................

 

[Farmin Momma]

By definition a bantam is just a small chicken. not sure why everyone says a small chicken doesn't mean it's a bantam. Please if the dictionary is wrong what does classify a chicken as a bantam? As far as i've always been told and read a bantam is simply a mini of the regular sized breed.

ban·tam

[ban-tuh

m] Show IPA [COLOR=333333]noun[/COLOR] 1. ( [COLOR=333333]often[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]initial[/COLOR] capital letter ) a chicken of [COLOR=333333]any[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]of[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]several[/COLOR] varieties or breeds [COLOR=333333]characterized[/COLOR] by very small [COLOR=333333]size.[/COLOR]

A true bantam chicken is a breed that does not have LF of the same breed (so I have read.) So silkies are true bantams because there are no LF silkies.

 

[TerrorBird]

Belgians are true bantams too. That's probably a good thing since they like to bully anyone who looks at them funny. At least, mine do...

 

[Totalcolour]

By definition a bantam is just a small chicken. not sure why everyone says a small chicken doesn't mean it's a bantam. Please if the dictionary is wrong what does classify a chicken as a bantam? As far as i've always been told and read a bantam is simply a mini of the regular sized breed.


ban·tam

[ban-tuh

m] Show IPA
noun
1.
( often initial capital letter ) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.

from Wikipedia:-

True bantams

A true bantam has no large counterpart, and is naturally small. Such birds are often popular for show purposes.

 

[lilfarmmomma]

haha I love home school! Our "First Language Lessons" book is paying off a little at a time. Somebody was out of bed in the bathroom and I asked "Who's up?" and John answered "It is I!" and totally giggled! He said "I know that's right but it sounds so funny and wrong!"

He's so cute. It does sound wrong. Too bad most people actually say it wrong instead of speaking correctly. Doh!

HAHAHA!! That actually made me giggle. He must have sounded so proper!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bantam
ban·tam
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n.
1. Any of various breeds of very small domestic fowl that are often miniatures of members of larger breeds.
2. A small but aggressive and spirited person.
adj.
1. Diminutive; miniature.
2. Aggressive and spirited.

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[After Bantam, former town in Indonesia from which such fowl were thought to have originated.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam_(poultry)
A bantam is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically, the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam [1] - currently known as "Banten Province" or previously "Banten Residency" - once a major seaport, in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native breeds of chicken in Southeast Asia to be useful, and any such small poultry came to be known as a bantam.
Most large chicken breeds have a bantam counterpart, sometimes referred to as a miniature. Miniatures are usually one-fifth to one-quarter the size of the standard breed, but they are expected to exhibit all of the standard breed's characteristics.

 

[Chickielady]

Oh that sounds good...................I have not made deviled eggs in months !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOMORROW the first shipment of hatching eggs is shipped.....................

FYI: Mikey::::::::::::::::: The Jersey Giants are laying up a storm, do you have any broodies ?
Or do you want me to set a doz for ya ?

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

based on above it seems there are two opinions of what a bantam is. When it comes to mixed breeds that are mixed between a bantam and a regular sized wouldn't that make one that is the size of a bantam a bantam though?
Also I don't consider a leghorn as a small chicken. What is considered small is opinion, i'm sure we all have different opinions of it. To me it has to be half the size of a regular chicken to be small. and being half the size I think it would be considered to be a bantam.


anyway made it to lock down with some of my eggs. I'm down to 18 eggs from 6 dozen though I candled today and several of them had nothing in them at all, some blood rings, one had a cracked shell and a blood ring. I didn't candle all the eggs when i set them. Being shipped i should have but 6 dozen was way to many to candle all at one time. I hope that at least 5 hatch from this. Mostly hoping that the dark brown eggs and the blue eggs hatch. I want one of each. I sell eggs to family and I would love the reaction i'd get from the blue eggs and chocolate colored ones. So many people think that eggs just come in light brown and white (mostly those that have never been around chickens).

 

[Chickielady]

Sizes & weights of Bantam breeds are listed in the Standard of Perfection published by the American Poultry Association.
True Bantams are poultry breeds that have no larger counterparts, they are "naturally" small, such as the Nankin.
Bantam breeds, that have been "shrunken down" from large Fowl usually still have the same size egg laying capibilities....even though they are smaller & so eat less...and as a friend has told me:
If ya have Bantams, you could have triple the amount as you would large fowl.................

CR will tell ya what GIANT eggs he got from his bantam breeds................as big as large fowl.
I myself love the Bantam's personaility...the little crow especially !

 

[Chickielady]

So in the last 2 days (of sun) I got my compost turned (a hill the size of 3 pick up trucks)
Brought a mess up & layered in 6 boxes, brought in 2 more boxes (10 feet long) and started filling them up.............
Planted ALL my tomatoes and Red Cheese Peppers and they are in the hot frames........................
Cleaned & dried my crates for taken to the show...................
Cleaned the van & washed it & we are about ready to wash birds~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now if only I can get up & outta here at 5 AM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!