what are we?!!!

[KirstieJG]

I buy my hatching eggs from a local specialist farm. They breed hundreds of different birds and sell the eggs for eating only.

However, the eggs are fertile on the whole so I buy them to hatch them.

They are still young birds and definitely bantams.

I believe they are most likely pure breed. However they do not have the yellow legs of the exchequer and they do not have the tricolour speckles of the speckled sussex.

I had them advertised for sale as speckledys but they are so beautiful, i am thinking of breeding them instead.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the breed?

 

[RhodeRunner]

Those are Silver Spangled Hamburgs. They are a small breed, so you may actually not actually have them in bantam form.

 

[KirstieJG]

wow, thank you so much for the information. That would also explain why the legs arent feathered. The eggs which they hatched from were bantam sized so I was expecting bantams. They really are a stunning pair!

 

[BantamLover21]

They look like Silver Spangled Hamburgs to me, too.

 

[donrae]

I just lifted this from the MMM hatchery website...

These are one of the snappiest, most alert breeds on the poultry list. Of rather small size, with light but sweeping, graceful outlines, they are elegant and beautiful. They have a kind of bright cheerfulness about them when foraging over open range and they love this kind of situation. Their origin goes back beyond the memory of man in both England and Holland and they were such prolific layers of white eggs that a common name for them was "the Dutch Everyday Layer." Although egg size is medium they are small eaters and cost less to keep than most breeds. The lustrous greenish black spangles on silvery white plumage give them a perky polkadot look. With neat rose combs, white ear lobes, leaden blue shanks and toes, these are excellent small birds for both beauty and utility. Baby chicks are a silver gray with parallel dark and light stripes on the back.


I'd sure keep them and hatch out some chicks if folks around you are okay with white egg layers. I've always had dual purpose birds but am looking at smaller birds for decreased feed costs as the years go on....

 

[KirstieJG]

What a beautiful description of them. Shop eggs in the UK are usually pinkish brown as from the RIR so I think white would sell here. I cant believe that I got these eggs for 25p each! They are classified as on the critical category of endangerment. It would be wrong not to breed them really.

 

[donrae]

What a beautiful description of them. Shop eggs in the UK are usually pinkish brown as from the RIR so I think white would sell here. I cant believe that I got these eggs for 25p each! They are classified as on the critical category of endangerment. It would be wrong not to breed them really.

And that's what I tell myself each time I set eggs

 

[drumstick diva]

Great how lucky for you