Re: What is this?


"nuele mersch" <fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Christina Websell <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >
>> Quite a large proportion of Japs turn out to have legs too long for
>> exhibition and are sold as pretty little banties for pets, which they
>> are.
>> A few eggs too but not many. It doesn't usually matter as they are
>> attractive to have around and very cheap to keep.
>> I have a friend that breeds Japs for show. All her long legged ones get
>> homes easily.
>>
>> Tina
>
>
> That's true, some of these birds are long-legged, but still they don't
> hold their wings like the one on Mark's picture, and they still have a
> single comb, not a rosecomb.
>
> My money is still on the Rosecomb bantams.
>
> Nuele (D)

I cannot tell from the photograph that she has a rose comb. It looks like
an undeveloped, appropriate for her age, single comb to me.
She is definitely not a rosecomb bantam, they have large white lobes and
their plumage is either black, blue, or white. Her tail carriage is not
typical either, far too high.
I'm leaning towards Dutch bantam now. Maybe.
Whatever she is, she's very nice ;-)

Tina



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