Standard Varieties of Chickens:

Sebright Bantams

Bantams are purely ornamental poultry and are kept for pleasure exclusively, though some contend they are profitable for eggs and table. This is hardly reasonable to suppose as their diminutive size and small eggs would hardly pay for their keep other than for fancy purposes. The Golden and Silver Sebright Bantams were originated in the early part of the present century by crossing a common Bantam with a Polish fowl and breeding the cross to a hen-feathered Bantam. After many years of successful breeding beautiful birds have been produced which breed true to type, and this mark is still established to this date.

The plumage of the bird is rich golden yellow in the Golden variety and silvery whiter in the Silver variety. The feathers of each variety are distinctly laced with a narrow edging of black. The head is small and surmounted by a bright-red rose comb; the neck is well arched and hen feathered; the back is short and free from saddle feathers; the breast is round and full and the body compact; the wings are large and carried so low as to almost cover the hocks; the thighs are short, and the shanks and toes slaty color. The cocks weight from 24 to 26 ounces (680 to 737 g), the hens about 20 ounces (567 g).

FOR FURTHER READING...

The following images come from the FeatherSite, "an on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry". The Sebright Bantams page contains further information about this breed's history and more images of these fowl.

Image Credits (from left to right): Courtesy of Barry Koffler; Courtesy of Barry Koffler; Courtesy of Barry Koffler; Courtesy of Beth Adams

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