Description
Cackle Hatchery® offers the Clean Leg bantams in an assortment package. In this assortment you could receive any of the following varieties: Easter Egger, Barred Rock, Cubalaya, Buff Orpington, Columbian Rock, Dominique, Japanese, Old English, Phoenix, Rhode Island Red, Rosecomb, Sebright and Wyandotte. We will give you the best assortment as possible based on what hatched.
“Sorry we do not tell you what color type or breed we sent with this package and we do not keep records of what breeds are sent”
Bill-Dare –
Clean leg Bantam Assortment
52 years ago, I was living in Southern CA where I kept some bantams; they were very much on the wild side, roosted high in the trees, and were hardly “domesticated.” These clean-leg bantams have all the “wild” bred out of them; they sit on my shoulder like a parrot, eat out of my hand, and appear totally fearless of humans, neighbor dogs that are NOT chicken-friendly, and total space cadets when it comes to watching for aerial predators–which have killed three of the 10 I ordered. They do make great “comfort chickens,” if you wish to train them–I don’t. Although I have discovered these bantams require full, indoor protection, I have allowed the bantams to run with my other 30 “free-range” chickens–and by free-range, that is littoral! I have 11 acres and they all cover most of it. I have accepted my losses thus far and consider them just a cost of having “free-range” meat and eggs. I operate an extensive electric fence to keep the 4-footed predators out; aerial ones are a different issue. And yes, Central IN now has Bald Eagles; I have seen three of them circling together weekly, but they haven’t chosen my chickens as prey, yet.