Stow, OH
Photo: -JvL- from Netherlands / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- cream
- Eggs / year
- ~100
- Hen weight
- ~1.65 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- calm, tame, quiet
- Forages
- fair
- Broodiness
- high
- APA class
- Feather Legged
- NPIP stock code
- W366
- Origin
- Netherlands/Germany
Breed guide
Booted Bantam
Also known as: Sabelpoot, Barbu du Grubbe (rumpless d'Uccle relative)
True bantam carrying enormous foot and hock feathering, the 'boots,' on a clean face where a d'Uccle would have a beard. An old Dutch-German breed that sits behind many feather-legged bantams. People keep them for exhibition and as pets.
Keeper's notes
The boots shred and cake in mud, so in a wet climate you have to house them dry and covered. Keep the litter deep and dry to protect the foot feather.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Ornamental Bantams
Standard weights: cock 1.63 lbs, hen 1.38 lbs, cockerel 1.38 lbs, pullet 1.25 lbs
“The White Booted are distinct from the White Cochin Bantams in the possession of an abundance of stiff feathers, pronounced vulture-hocks, and an upright and sprightly carriage.”
Disqualifications: Feathers other than white in any part of plumage; absence of vulture-hocks; shanks not feathered down the outer sides; shanks other than white; outer toes not feathered; birds over disqualifying weights.
APA recognized varieties
Feather Legged (recognized as bantam) · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Non-Bearded White 1879Non-Bearded Mille Fleur 1914Non-Bearded Porcelain 1965Non-Bearded Black 1996Non-Bearded Self Blue 1996
Booted Bantam listings
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Where to find Booted Bantam
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (1)
Regional hatcheries that carry it (0)
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Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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