Whats it called??

[misshilton88]

Hey all I've just taken in a lovely white light Sussex hen with a baby chick..

Now the chick is crossed with a Peking cock....Ive looked everywhere but can't find much information on this sort of cross...at the moment the baby has white wings (black underneath) and a yellowish head and body!

Has anybody on here got much experience of this or can offer advice on cross breeds???


Also Ive got a dutch bantam raising a call ducking too - so many babies!!!!

Thanks for held and advice in advance

Danni xxx

 

[OreoPlymothRock]

The Pekin Bantam

Uses: Exhibition.
Eggs: ??? White / Cream Origin: Peking, China
Weight: Cock: 680g Max. Hen: 570g Max.
Colours: Black, Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Mottled, Barred, Birchen, Columbian, Lavender, Partridge, Silver Partridge, White (Standardised UK).
Useful to Know: Known as Cochin Bantams outside of the U.K. although there are differences between them.
Photo: A Black Pekin Bantam owned by Mr. A. Floyer. Photo courtesy Rupert Stephenson.

Pekin Bantams are true bantams, they have no large counterpart. They were originally Cochin Bantams when they arrived in the UK, however they had no relationship to large Cochins and looked quite different. They came from a different place (Peking in China) so after much debate over many years, they were renamed as 'Pekin Bantams'. Around the rest of the World, Cochin Bantams are similar in appearance to the British Pekin Bantams although breed standards are slightly different.
The first (Buff) Cochin Bantam were originally thought to have been found in Peking in the gardens of the Emperor's palace that was looted in 1859 by some of the 11'000 British and 6'700 strong French forces during the opium wars. Further birds were imported in later years and further colours followed, some, like the white being from white 'sports' that hatched from Buffs, crossed with white Booted Bantams.​