Modesto, IL
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Varieties
- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- tinted
- Eggs / year
- ~80
- Hen weight
- ~1.1 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- docile, tame, showy
- Forages
- poor
- Broodiness
- high
- APA class
- Single Comb Clean Legged
- NPIP stock code
- W1
- Origin
- Japan
Breed guide
Japanese Bantam
Also known as: Chabo
True bantam with extremely short legs, a large upright tail carried past the head, and a big single comb. It came out of Japan as a garden fowl. The short-leg gene is lethal in double dose, so a quarter of the eggs from short x short matings die in the shell.
Keeper's notes
Those short legs drag their bellies through mud and wet grass, so keep them on dry ground under a covered run in a wet climate. They make excellent broodies for other bantam eggs.
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
“Tail: Very large, somewhat expanded, carried in so erect a position as to almost come in contact with back of head; sickles, long, very upright, very slightly curved.”
Disqualifications: Black-Tailed variety: combs other than single; shanks other than yellow; birds over disqualifying weights.
APA recognized varieties
Single Comb Clean Legged (recognized as bantam) · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Black Tailed White 1874Black 1883White 1883Gray 1914Mottled 1947Black Tailed Buff 1982Barred 1996Brown Red 1996Wheaten 1996
Japanese Bantam listings
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Where to find Japanese Bantam
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (9)
Oakley, MI
Marion, OH
Delta, OH
Plain City, OH
New London, OH
Caldonia, OH
Mt. Vernon, OH
South Webster, OH
Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
Kinsman, OH
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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