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Bantam cock Bantam hen. The Welsummer or Welsumer is a Dutch breed of domestic chicken.It originates in the small village of Welsum, in the eastern Netherlands.It was bred at the beginning of the twentieth century from local fowls of mixed origin: Rhode Island Reds, Barnevelders, Partridge Leghorns, Cochins, and Wyandottes.
The Dutch Bantam (Dutch: Hollandse Kriel) is a breed of bantam chicken originating in the Netherlands. [6] [7] It is a true bantam, a naturally small bird with no related large fowl from which it was miniaturized. [8]: 136 It is kept mainly for exhibition, and has been bred in many color varieties; it is a good layer of small eggs. [9]: 45
After laying an egg it takes around 19 days for the chicks to develop and hatch. Chicks are more susceptible to cold temperatures compared to other breeds because of their relative small size. After hatching, it takes about 16–18 weeks for the chicks to mature and reach the point at which they themselves can begin laying eggs.
The Sebright is a true bantam chicken breed Japanese bantam chick (left) compared to an Orpington chick. A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck.Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects.
The Booted Bantam is kept for show. Hens may lay about 120 eggs per year, with an average weight of some 30 g; [15]: 35 the colour varies from tinted to white. [16]: 135 The bearded and feather-footed Barbu d'Uccle was created in the early years of the twentieth century by cross-breeding birds of this breed with Barbu d'Anvers stock. [15]: 86
Four colour varieties are recognised by the Barnevelderclub of the Netherlands in both large fowl and bantams: double-laced, double-laced blue, black and white. The silver double-laced variety was recognised – in the bantam only – in 2009, [11] [12] and the silver-black double-laced was recognised in 2014; [13] other varieties are in development. [14]
The American Bantam Association is a poultry fancy association for breeders of bantam poultry. It publishes the Bantam Standard , with detailed descriptions of all the bantam breeds and varieties that it recognizes; [ 2 ] : 6 in most – but not all – cases, these are the same as those recognised by the American Poultry Association .
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