Colours
Blue – bearded, small standard size, this quartet is from very good stock. They throw blue and splash chicks, never black.
Bantam gold – a quartet of small bantams. Two bearded hens, two non bearded. One hen is particularly pale, from citron. This group can throw pale gold, gold partridge and any shade in between.
Bantam chocolate – mixed chocolate patterns. This group is bred for size, I keep back the smallest ones each year. They are pet quality and sometimes have either amber eyes or very rarely a little straight comb (which I am trying to breed out):
Currently they are in two groups due to chicken lockdown:
Group 1 – very small chocolate paint cockerel with a very small bearded paint hen and two very small bearded chocolate hens.
Group 2 – standard bantam chocolate cuckoo cockerel and a smaller chocolate silver partridge cockerel.
Hens include chocolate (some bearded, some non-bearded, one with a base of gold), dun, some silver or gold patterned.
Chicks can be a variety of colours from dark chocolate bearded to chocolate with silver patterns, gold patterns, gold, dun, chocolate cuckoo and chocolate paint.