What are these strange bantams? I have no clue.

[sweeterdeeter42]

I guess they arent so strange, but what is strange is that they are absolutely not anything that the hatchery said that they could be. First two are 6 1/2 weeks, Last group are 4 1/2 weeks old. Also, if you've got a guess on gender, let me know.

First one: Single comb.

Second one: Single comb.

Last group: Single combs. also, one is grey, the others are golden colored.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Edited:
IDK.

 

[tigerrrrrrrlilly]

Are they from ideal? A variety of oegb's maybe? #1 makes me think gold laced oegb from ideal and it looks rooish to me. I've been improving the silver laced from them for the past 2 years. It looks identical except gold. It has the single comb, slate legs and type of what I started with. 2 others look maybe black breasted red.

*They all look oegb to me, just not sure of each color.

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

I have no clue. They are from TSC but they get their bantams from a different hatchery than the standards, I think, since they come on a different day. And Two TSC's get theirs from different hatcheries than the other two around here.

 

[tigerrrrrrrlilly]

Well if TSC told you what they were (not the hatchery), then I'm not surprised if it's wrong. I hear that all the time. If I had to wager, I would put my money on them being old english game bantams.

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

No, I actually emailed the hatcheries that they said that some of their chicks come from and they gave me a list of what they might be. This is what Townline said: A bantam order could include any of the following: Bebe Reds, Porcelins, Millefleurs, Golden and Silver Seabrights, White Silkies, Red Pyle Old English, Brown Old English, and Silver Duckwing Old English. There is no guarantee on just what you would receive, however. Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

This is what Mt. Healthy said: Some of the assortment will be the Black and White Silkies, Mille Fluer, Red Pile Old English and the golden Seabrights.

The first two could be from Townline, as the LF's from that TSC were, but Im not sure, as a few of the bantams I got were not included in this list.
I am sure that the last group is not from Townline.
They could be from Mt. Healthy, but if 99% of the assorted bantams they sent were all the same patterns, just different colors, I would think that they would mention more than just one kind of OEGB's in their list they sent me.

The lists are very vague, so I cant imagine they include everything they have, and I know that other TSC's get their chicks from other hatcheries, so anything is possible when it comes to that, I suppose.

 

[Barrdwing]

If the first chick is a bantam, it could be a golden Sebright: I haven't raised any of these, but I have seen the "in-between" feathering on other laced breeds, and it strongly resembles that of #1. #2, I'm afraid I don't know. In the last group, the gray chick second from the left looks an awful lot like my silver Phoenixes did, and the silver Phoenix is basically a Silver Duckwing color pattern I believe. So perhaps it's a Silver Duckwing OEGB. That coloration doesn't match any of the other breeds in the assortment. Its buddies also look like duckwing-colored babies. They might be Brown Old English, I suppose, if that breed is based on a duckwing "foundation" and lacks the Silver gene.

Genders, though, can't say yet. Sorry!

 

[lovebabychicks]

I have a couple of those bantams. My niece and I did research and the only thing that we could come up by looking at day old chick pictures were that these were the Golden Sebrights so that is what I tell everyone that I have. If you find out for sure I would like to know. hehe!

 

[lovebabychicks]

The bottom picture look like some that I have and I think they are Silver Duckwings and BB Reds.

 

[suzeqf]

I'm in the same boat I have a few assorted banty mysteries myself and can't figure out what they are because they look like so many.