Typically the Dumpy lays a cream white egg like a Game or a Dorking. Chalk white and light brown eggs are not unknown. To some extent the creeper gene may stunt overall growth because breed outs with

Scots Greys

making them lighter than the Old English and Modern Game bantams. I grew up on a Kansas farm during the 1960s and raised large and bantam White Plymouth Rocks. Being a member of the Ark Valley Poultry

and by the game varieties. Bantams have the same requirements for shape, color and physical features as do the large fowl. They should weight about 1/5 of their large counterparts. Bantams are kept for

Gray Junglefowl

Ringneck Pheasants

geese are hardy and require less heat than most other game birds. In Northern latitudes shelters place to face the South can be made to keep the geese out of the deep snow and cold winds. These shelters

starter or a 50/50 mix of chick starter and turkey/game starter. Be careful not to let the protein level get too high or you may have a problem with angel wing. It is good to supplement the diet of goslings

German breeder once told me that this was originally a game fowl. So, muffed and bearded games, which are themselves quite old, could be at least part of the answer. If Orloffs in the West never achieved

I set 15 Old English game and every last one of them is fertile! back to Poultry Page Direct questions and comments to Barry at FeatherSite -- questions and comments

B. Red Game today. Records from the 18th and early 19th centuries not only describe this pattern, but also Clay, a darker, richer version of Wheaten; Dark Reds, a red version of the Colored or dark gray