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[Griffin]

I'm loving their hair at the moment, it's just sprouting through and they look brilliant I can see their little personalities developing too. One of the silverlaced is particularly dim, always on it's own, hasn't a clue what is going on White crested black is my favourite, it's so confident and is very adventurous

 

A silver laced:

 

 

T'other one:

 

Crele looking miserable:

 

White crested black:

 

Brahmawotisnotapoland:

 

Hiding under the passionflower with mum:

 

I love the look on their faces

[fluffyknickers]

Ooh I am so jealous they are gorgeous. Crele is my favourite.

michelle

[Daphne]

Flock of Seagulls...Gary Rhodes.....there always seems to be one very dim poland in any batch, but on the other hand some of them can be very clever/wily (well in chicken terms at least ) and I think its this which makes me like them so much, they are very individualistic. Great pix!

[ChrisEllis]

i must say they do look awesome any clues of their sex yet or u jus waiting til nature shows ya

 

keep posting pics they are amazing ><

[Griffin]

I think there is one of each of the silver laced, they looked different at birth and they're still a little different. As for the others, I haven't a clue, all girls hopefully

[atsw]

Great Pictures, well done .

White crested black is my favourite, it's so confident and is very adventurous .

That will be a boy then .

I think there is one of each of the silver laced' date=' they looked different at birth and they're still a little different. As for the others, I haven't a clue, all girls hopefully .[/quote']See above!

 

Andrew

[Patricia W]

Poland boys are very confident, stand up straight and generally look sturdier than the girls. Boys also get signs of wattles first. So any sign of red showing - it's a boy.

 

I have learned through my mistakes!

 

Tricia

[thebdj]

Griffin,

 

You may have saved me a new post here. I have some polands under my broody at the moment and assuming she isn't as bad as I keep giving her the lack of credit for, when can I expect them to hatch? The reason I ask is that there seems to be a school of people who refer to them as bantams, and a school that don't. Because they don't appear to be especially small (or bantam-esque!) I have braced myself for a 21 day hatch.

 

It's no biggy, just if it's 19 day hatch then I should see them today or tomorrow! And I just want to make sure all is well assuming some pop out!

 

Cheers

Justin

[Daphne]

You can get bantam polands and large fowl - so it depends on what you've got. Eggs from bantam polands aren't tiny however! Smaller than a large fowls egg but not as diddy as many bantam eggs.

[thebdj]

Realised this after I posted this and did some more reading! I think mine were sold as bantam but they are actually large fowl. In honesty that is quite handy as I can expect to see them start emerging (hopefully) early next week. This gives me a chance to prepare for them tomorrow (chicken cleaning day)

 

Cheers

Justin

[Griffin]

Mine hatched on day 21 & 22

 

Large fowl Polands seem to be as rare as hens teeth My little Olive is supposed to be LF. She's the size of a tin of beans She's either bantam or a very poor example of LF I don't care though, she utterly amazing and I love her to bits. I popped home from work briefly this afternoon to pick up two hens that were going to a new home. As soon as Olive heard my voice she came sprinting over to see me She's not at all sociable with the other chooks. If she could sit on my shoulder all day long she'd be the happiest chook on earth.

[Redwing]

My poland is a good size and surprisingly chunky bless her

[Chickvic]

Great pics

[Janty]

Wow, they're gorgeous.

 

Love the little brahma.

 

[ChrisEllis]

Can i ask a stupid question - i have never nderstood bantams and a normal chicken, can you different version of a breed for example say you have a poland - you can get a large fiowl poland - a poland bantam and then a normal chicken i dont know its term? Or is it some breeds are classed as a bantam and some are classed as large fowl?

[Daphne]

Hi Chris

 

Chickens come in 2 basic sizes; bantam and large fowl (LF). A bantam is roughly 1/4 the size of a large fowl. Most pure breeds have a bantam equivalent so you can get bantam and large fowl polands, orpingtons, wyandottes, welsummers, sussex etc etc etc. Most of the time these smaller birds are exactly the same as the bigger ones in type/colour/comb etc. Sometimes they are known as miniatures.

 

Some bantams are known as true bantams - meaning they do not have a large fowl equivalent. Examples of these breeds include japanese bantams, belgian bantams, dutch bantams.

 

In the UK, pekins are the bantam version of a cochin. Everywhere else they are known as miniature/bantam cochins.

 

Hybrids are not available as bantams. I don't know why - I'm sure there would be a good market for them!

 

Generally speaking you will find most people just talk about bantams without differentiating between miniatures/trues.

 

HTH

 

Daph

[ChrisEllis]

Oh thanks for that, sorta made me understand a bit more

[Janty]

Some small chickens, such as pekins, Belgium Barbe D'Uccles, Barbe D'Anvers, etc. are known as true bantams as they have no large fowl version.

 

Other small chickens are known as miniatures as they have large fowl versions of the breed. I have miniature RIRs, a mini Orpington, a mini Vorwerk and a mini brahma.

[Janty]

Sorry, didn't read page two before posting...that'll teach me.

 

[ChrisEllis]

its no problem it all helps

[Valkyrie]

Oh, squeals from this room, love the silver laced one - and T'other one. Such lovely crests!

 

Edited to add DD has seen the white crested black one and wants one too. Rat's I was trying to hide them away from her.

[Griffin]

I love white crested black one so much, it's about twice the size of the others and when they're free ranging with mum this one marches off and hangs out with Steve & Bernard the big boys. It's fearless! Probably a boy

[thebdj]

Griff,

 

When did the babies start emerging? The reason I ask is that Golddust has been on her eggs now just over 21 days and I am not convinced there is any pipping going on, let alone hatching. I will of course give her at least a couple more days and hopefully, again, I am just being impatient, but just wondered when yours came out? So to speak!

[Griffin]

Day 21 they started. I hope yours come out soon

[thebdj]

Hmmm. Still nothing. I shall give her another couple of days and then I'm going to have to bite the bullet and take them out I reckon. I'd always candle to make sure. I wonder if I'm going to end up apologising to my chicken