Sterling, IL
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Varieties
- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- white to tinted
- Eggs / year
- ~80
- Hen weight
- ~1.25 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, jaunty, friendly
- Forages
- fair
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Rose Comb Clean Legged
- NPIP stock code
- W588
- Origin
- England
Breed guide
Sebright
Also known as: Silver Sebright, Gold Sebright
True bantam created by Sir John Sebright around 1800, with crisp black lacing on silver or gold ground. Cocks are hen-feathered, lacking pointed sickles and hackles. A show breed with famously tricky fertility.
Keeper's notes
Small, active flyers that need covered runs. Chicks are delicate; keep brooders warm and dry, and shelter adults from cold rain.
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 low carriage of wings and well-spread tail give to these beautiful birds a most distinctive and striking appearance.”
Disqualifications: Combs other than rose; absence of spike; cocks or cockerels with hackle extending over shoulders or sickles more than an inch and a half beyond tail proper; shanks other than slaty-blue; birds over disqualifying weights.
APA recognized varieties
Rose Comb Clean Legged (recognized as bantam) · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Golden 1874Silver 1874
Sebright listings
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Where to find Sebright
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (23)
Fayetteville, IL
Marengo, IL
Odin, IL
Lowpoint, IL
Sesser, IL
Mattawan, MI
Hamilton, OH
Quincy, OH
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Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
Millersburg, 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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