My Favorite Old English Varieties
My Favorite Web Sites
John Sundelins website
poultry auctions
Right now, I have been focusing on my racing homers, but I am now coming back to old english game bantams. I have raised old english for about 1 1/2 and it never gets tiring as all these birds have their own behaviors.
My Favorite old english I have are the BB red variety. They are beautiful, and their standards for cockerel lines are easy to achieve. That is why they are so popular and occur very commonly in the poultry show ring making competition fierce.
My favorite way to produce show quality males, are to use heavily shafted females. This makes the coloring on the male brilliant!
Blue Reds are also very popular but not as common as the b b red. My advice is that if you own any bb reds, own some blue reds. That way you can cross them to get both blue reds and bb reds. Which will drastically reduce the chances of you needing to inbreed. Inbreeding can produce desirable birds, horrifying birds, or overly agressive birds.
My favorite way to produce a brilliant blue red is to breed 2 blue reds together. You will get 50% blue reds 25% bb reds and 25% blue red sports. Cross a sport hen to a richly colore bb red and u will produce some extremely nice blue reds!
My Old english game bantams are $50 for a trio, but word of advice is that dont expect super hens( but they will have good type and color with excess shafting), but you can expect super cockerels.
