Booted bantams - Belgian d'Uccles ?
Edit: Seems like Stu above beat me to it.
I ain't precious Mr B we can share this one,all that is important to me is the op has the correct id
a fool can see there not chickens
there hens
LMAO
you just really messed up the guy in the first pic's day bro you can't call the poor lad a girl
Oh and as above the others might be yearlings
in which case they be not hens they be pullets.ahh buddy poultry keepers might be worse than togs for being pedantic about names........funny as
Ere guys a serious thought afore I go
isn't it amazing what man has managed to do by selectively breeding : I think there is something like 2000 breeds,that stem from the tiny guys like these. Old dutch (another breed) maybe being the smallest at around blackbird size to the giants like brahma that stand up by ya knee or higher. all the colours of the rainbow in plumage.................. blue eggs brown or terracotta or plain white, They feed ALOT of us!!!!! egg to plate is 6weeks or less. in our modern table bird. that stems from a cornish light sussex cross........ strains that lay vast quantities of eggs. hariy feet necked necks silkies that have fluff blue skin. different combs single double pea rose,on and on and on one can go.
All from a humble little pheasant called the red jungle fowl truly amazing
These old breeds might on the seem of it be almost redundent a hobby bird kept by nutters like me, a curiosity now almost. But our poultry industry world wide is epic in scale one of these old breeds might just hold a genetic key we don't know we need yet
Thanks lads good to smile ,I've always been bewildered that all this came from a phessie,sorry for wafflin I do love em. Opening an incubator door the size of an upright freezer to have a thousand little faces staring back all colours is a memory to long cherish from work
seeya
stu
