What Bantam is this?

[JenellYB]

Emptywagon2,
Well, I can not entirely take credit for that.
It was my daughter that found and rescued her from the dogs in front of her house. She assumed it was a chick a few weeks old, because. of its size. When she told me on the phone how bad it was injured, that was my thought, no way the poor thing can survive...but....my daughter also has 3 foster children, ages 10, 8, and 5, who were already watching over it in a dog crate, tempting it to eat with table scraps.
By the time I saw it a few days later, my daughter and three little kids are carefully tending to keeping the crate scrupulously clean and feeding it scrambled eggs with their fingers. Sooooooo.........

But they have 5 big dogs, not 'chicken friendly' themselves.
Sooooo....

....by then, what else could I do?

Jenell

 

[jak2002003]

Hi. Lovely hen and well done for rescuing her!

I keep Japanese Bantams and also Serama bantams. I am quite sure you bird is a Serams X Japanese.

Many of my Serams have the same colour legs as your hen and I have also noticed they lay much bigger eggs than the Japanese Bantams. However, the body shape is more Japanese with the upright tail and V shape. Serams have a more rounded sticking out chest and the head held back.

Some of mine have cross bred and look very much like your one.

I don't think she is a Nankin Bantam, as they have much longer thinner legs and are more light and streamlined look to their bodies.

Are you going to get her a friend? They are so addictive. I started out with 3 and now have 15! They all have names and are different personalities.

 

[JenellYB]

FrancisCreek,
I followed your link to your website...yes, your website was one of the place I fhad ound when I was searching the web for anything Nankin, trying to idenitify her....
One thing I'm finding a bit hard in trying to compare pictures, not just yours, but many others I've found, is that while I'm used to watching her either alert, confident, and upright in her cage as in her picture I've posted here, or relaxed and just pecking around...while most the birds photographed on the tables are less relaxed, even somewhat "crouching down" just a bit. But other than that, and in some other photos of Nankins relaxed, they seem similar. Amd I see what you mean on an older hen you have there, the color fading.
One thing is for sure, i've NEVER seen her assume a position even vaguely similar to the many of the Serama photos I've seen, never so upright, chest out, head pulled back, as even the Serama hen photos, but then again, i realize, they may be doing that because they are trained to take that pose, rather than doing it naturally. Even when she feels intimidated, maybe a bit defensive as someone reached in her cage, and kinda pulls up and back, she doesn't pull herself up like in the Serama photos.

Jenell