Bantams

One of the most stunning breeds of chickens in the world. The breed originated in England in the 19th century. The Sebright breed has black lacing with either gold or silver base color. They lay very small, tinted eggs, but do not lay well and are not setters. They are kept primarily for pleasure and exhibition. Sebrights have clean legs with slate blue skin, and their beaks are a dark horn color. *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Cream Eggs/Year Temperament: Docile, Friendly, Easily Tamed, Great Pets Mature Weight: 1.5 lbs. Hardiness: Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Rarely Comb Type: Rose Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

The striking colors, alertness, and upright stance and confident personality make this breed very popular pets. They are entertaining with the certain "cockiness" their stance and stature portrays in such a small bird. *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Brown Eggs/Year Temperament: Extremely Active, Flighty Mature Weight: 2-2.5 lbs. Hardiness: Are NOT Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Often Comb Type: Single Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

Mille Fleur D'Uccle bantams generally have great temperaments, making them easy birds to handle for the novice chicken keeper or for kids. It is because of this that they make excellent pet chickens. Their mahogany feathers with speckles get more and more beautiful after each molt. Mille Fleur in French translates to "thousand flowers". *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Cream Eggs/Year Temperament: Docile, Friendly, Easily Tamed, Great Pets Mature Weight: 1-2 lbs. Hardiness: NOT Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Often Comb Type: Single Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

The Porcelain D'Uccle originates in Belgium. They have beards, feathered legs, and their plumage is a beautiful blueish-white that almost seems iridescent and all feathers are tipped in white. They have good temperaments and friendly dispositions. *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Cream Eggs/Year Temperament: Docile, Friendly, Easily Tamed, Great Pets Mature Weight: 1 lb Hardiness: NOT Cold but is Heat Hardy Broodiness: Often Comb Type: Single Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

Silkies are named for their unique fluffy plumage, which feels like silk. They have several unusual qualities, such as black skin and bones, blue earlobes, and five toes on each foot (although not all of our silkies will hatch out with five toes). Calm and friendly and the most docile of poultry, they make an ideal pet. Hens are broody and make good mothers. Though they are fair layers themselves, they are commonly used to hatch eggs from other breeds. Silkies are only sold in assorted colors, and we do not guarantee any colors in assortments. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Light Brown Eggs/Year Temperament: Docile, Friendly, Easily Tamed, Great Pets Mature Weight: 2-3 lbs. Hardiness: Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Often, Good Mothers Comb Type: Rose Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

Buff Cochin Bantams have solid golden buff plumage that is rich in color and free of both black and white. They must not be subject to direct sunlight or their plumage will bleach, therefore, shade must be provided. They have yellow shanks and toes which are fully feathered. Cochins can be very broody and make good mothers. Straight run only.

Easter Egger Bantams have muffs, beards and pea combs like standard Easter Eggers. They are grayish colored in the females and grey with red on the wings and neck on the males. Easter Egger Bantams will lay blue, green and the occasional brown egg. Straight run only.

Blue Breasted Red Old English Bantams have combs, faces, wattles and ear lobes that are bright red. Males and females have entirely different plumage patterns. Some of these birds will have a black breast. All Old English Bantams have single combs, but the males must be dubbed for exhibition. The chicks will be brown with dark brown stripes on their back.

The Blue Laced Barnevelder, like the Barnevelder, is a large, active, and winter hardy chicken. They have the same pattern as the Barnevelder, but with remarkable blue colored lacing. Blue Laced Barnevelders are a special variety of an already rare breed. They make a good dual-purpose bird and lay dark brown eggs.

Blue Silkies will show a range of blue color including an occasional splash. We include both bearded and non-bearded varieties. They share the unique characteristics of other Silkie varieties, including beards, silkie down like feathers, black-pigmented skin, walnut combs, medium sized crests, and five toed feathered feet and legs. Silkies are very often broody and make good mothers. Straight run only.

Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantams feature plumage of the head, back, breast, body and legs in buff. The tail is black with the top two feathers edged with buff. The sickles and lesser sickles are black edged with buff. The male’s wing primaries are black, fringed with buff while the female’s wing primaries are black with the outer edge being buff.

Black Tailed White are the most popular of the Japanese Bantams. They have short legs, as do all Japanese Bantams. The plumage of the neck, front of neck, back breast and wing fronts, bows and coverts are either white or silver white. The main tail feathers are black, while the tail sickles, tail coverts and wing primaries are black, edged with white.

Buff Silkie Bantams are solid buff or straw color. We include both bearded and non-bearded varieties. As with other Silkies, they are very attractive birds that are active and hardy, they tend to go broody and make excellent mothers. They have five toes, feathered legs, black pigmented skin, walnut combs and a medium sized crest. Straight run only.

Crele Old English Bantams are strikingly beautiful birds with bright hackle and saddle feathers that show alternate bars of straw color and orange-red. Females are a brownish gray barred coloration typical of a crele type hen.

Partridge Cochin Bantams are probably the most striking and beautiful of all the Bantam Cochin varieties. The male pattern of plumage is entirely different from that of the female. As chicks they are a brownish-gold with stripes on their back. Like other types of Cochin Bantams, they often go broody and make good mothers. Straight run only.

Unlike all other chickens, the feathers of the frizzle curve outward and forward, giving the appearance of having been dried with a blow dryer. These frizzles will be red. They will not reproduce 100% frizzle. There will always be some normal feathered birds. Straight run only.

The primary color of the female is black with white head, neck, front of neck and breast plumage that is black with white lacing. The male has a silver-white head and back with saddle and hackle feathers that have narrow dark stripes.

Red Cochin Bantams are an even shade of lustrous red throughout their plumage, which consists of an abundance of long, soft, broad feathers. Like all Cochins they have single combs and are excellent setters. Bantam Cochins are very calm, do not wander, and can be kept within a minimum of space fenced with only a three-foot fence. Straight run only.

Single Comb Rhode Island Red Bantams are known for their beautiful, rich, dark mahogany red color with a black tail. They have a very distinctive horizontal, oblong body shape that is deep, broad and long, sometimes described as being “brick shaped”. From the time the chicks hatch until maturity, they may have white on the wing tips that will leave when they mature.

Self Blue d’Uccle Bantams, or Porcelain Belgian Bearded d’Uccle Bantams, are a uniform blue-gray throughout. They are true bantams, meaning that there is not a full-size equivalent breed. Straight run only.

Self-Blue Old English Bantams are a unique, beautiful, solid, light blue or powder blue variety. Self-Blue is described as light slate blue without lacing.

Silver Sebright Bantams are a very distinct, stylish type with tails that are full and well expanded, large wings that are hung low, and the unique of the males being “hen feathered”. Sebrights are the only breed where the males do not have any pointed hackle, saddle or tail sex feathers. All of the surface plumage is silvery white laced with a narrow edging of lustrous black.

Cochin bantams are friendly, docile chickens and tend to be submissive. The Cochins were introduced to the U.S. around 1850 from China. They require good-quality feed, make remarkably good pets, and make excellent brooders because of their calm, maternal nature. *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 104 Small Brown Eggs/Year Temperament: Docile, Friendly, Gentle Mature Weight: 2-3 lbs. Hardiness: Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Often, Make Good Mothers Comb Type: Single Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

The Old English Bantam originated in England and were raised for cock fighting. The sport was banned in 1849 and today the birds are raised for exhibition. The upright appearance and confidence in this breed sets it apart and makes it noticeable. Our Old English Bantam Assortment includes many different colors including the Crele, Blue, Barred, Red Pyle, B.B. Red and Silver Duck Wing. *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Brown Eggs/Year Temperament: Extremely Active, Flighty Mature Weight: 2-2.5 lbs. Hardiness: Are NOT Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Often Comb Type: Single Comb **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

This assortment is great for hobby flock owners! You will receive a variety of bantams, and there may be an assortment of any of the bantam breeds we offer including any of the following: Barred Old English, BB Red Old English, Blue Old English, Buff Brahma, Black Cochin, Buff Cochin, Partridge Cochin, Crele Old English, Golden Sebright, Mille Fleur D'Uccle, Porcelain D'Uccle, Partridge Wyandotte, Red Cochin, Red Pyle Old English, Silver Sebright and/or Silkie Bantams. *Sold as straight run only. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Cream to Brown Eggs/Year Temperament: Varies by Breed Mature Weight: 1-3 lbs. Hardiness: Varies by Breed Broodiness: Varies by Breed Comb Type: Varies by Breed **Minimum Order Requirements – 20 Bantams For Safe Shipping**

Spangled Old English Bantams have bright red combs, faces, wattles and ear lobes. Males and females have entirely different multicolored plumage patterns. All Old English Bantams have single combs, however males must be dubbed in order to show.

This assortment features one of the most stunning ornamental chicken breeds in the world, the Sebright, which originated in England in the 19th century. The hatchery's choice assortment may include Golden, Silver, and/or Buff-laced Sebrights, each showcasing intricate black lacing over their respective base colors. While they lay small, cream-tinted eggs, Sebrights are not prolific layers and rarely go broody, making them ideal for pleasure and exhibition rather than production. These elegant birds have clean legs, slate blue skin, and dark horn-colored beaks. Purpose: Ornamental Production: 100 Small Cream Eggs/Year Temperament: Docile, Friendly, Easily Tamed, Great Pets Mature Weight: 1.5 lbs. Hardiness: Cold and Heat Hardy Broodiness: Rarely Comb Type: Rose Comb

A hatchery's choice assortment of any or all of the Japanese bantams hatched on a particular date. Can include Black Tailed White, Black Tailed Buff, or Grey Japanese bantams.

A variety of bantams featuring feathered legs and feet; breeds are chosen by the hatchery. Available in straight run only.

Hatchery's choice of any d'Uccle bantams hatched on the ship day. The following colors/patterns could be included in your assortment: Black Mottled, Gold Neck, Mille Fleur, Porcelain, Self blue, and White. These bantams have a nice disposition for showy backyard and barnyard flocks. They are also good layers for bantams that produce a very small white egg. They are a true bantam, meaning that there is no standard size form. Straight run only.

Hatchery's choice of any Frizzle chicks hatched on the ship date. The following colors could be included in the assortment; Black, Blue, Red, White. Frizzles will have feathers that curve outward and forward, giving the appearance of having been dried with a blow dryer. They will not reproduce 100% frizzle. There will always be some normal feathered birds. Straight run only.

Hatchery's choice of any of the smooth-legged bantams hatched on the ship date. Any or all of the following colors/patterns could be included in your assortment: Barred Rock, Old English, Belgian Quail, Dutch, Japanese, Black or Blue Rosecomb, Sebright, Dark or White laced Red Cornish, Delaware, Easter Egger, Pyncheon, Rhode Island Red, White crested Black or blue Polish, or White Faced Black Spanish. Breeds will not be individually identified. Straight run only.