A turkey which had been sitting in the root-house appeared with twelve children, and a family of bantams occurred almost simultaneously.
Em'ly disturbed now thebantams and now the turkeys, and several of these latter had died, though I will not go so far as to say that this was the result of her misplaced attentions.
She would keep trying to get interest in the ties of others taking charge of little chicks and bantams and turkeys and puppies one time, and she thought most anything was an egg.
The chickens of Sebright Bantams (Dixon) are uniformly dark brown, whilst those of the brown-breasted red Game Bantam are black, with some white on the throat and breast.
A fancier who wished to decrease the size of his bantams or tumbler-pigeons would never think of starving them, but would select the smallest individuals which spontaneously appeared.
A nearly parallel case is offered by those black bantams which, as they grow {70} old, develop a latent tendency to acquire red feathers.
Bantams with the larger breeds without much danger of their crossing, but not with the smaller breeds, such as Games, Hamburgs, &c.
He produced the famous Sebright Bantams by complicated crosses, and by breeding in-and-in; and since his time there has been much close interbreeding with these Bantams; and they are now notoriously bad breeders.
I have raised seven-and-twenty bantams from the patriarchs you sent me.
Above allBantams is placed, the celebrated and beautiful breed called Sir John Sebright's Silver Bantams.
Hatty was not quite pleased that Marcus should take the bantams so immediately under his protection, though she had brought them as a present to him.
These were the object of the whole affair; the two bantams having been merely served up as a first course, to collect the people together.
One of the bantams having been knocked in the head, and had an eye put out, he gave in, and two monstrous prize-cocks were brought on.
The bantams were very handsome, and he felt a great desire to possess them; so he dismounted, and seeing the farmer's son hard by, he asked him for how much he would sell the fowls.
The white bantams had become very tame, and when they pecked the corn out of her hand it was almost too much to bear.
Not content with taking all her money, they wanted to rob the hen-roost, to steal her pretty bantams and Mrs Vallance's splendid white cochin-chinas.
Usually the idea of making a new variety of bantams does not occur to a breeder until he sees a good dwarf specimen of a race of which there is no dwarf variety.
Most people who keep bantams keep only a few for pleasure, and the eggs and poultry they furnish are but a small part of what the family consumes.
The most popular bantams in this country to-day are the Cochin Bantams, formerly called Pekin Bantams because the first that were seen in Europe and America had come from Peking.
Sebright Bantams were made in England about a hundred years ago, by Sir John Sebright, for whom they were named.
The very small bantams and the very rare varieties are usually delicate and so hard to rear that amateurs who try them soon become discouraged and either give up bantams or take one of the hardy kinds.
Although the large Brahmas and Cochins are originally of the same stock, no bantams of the colors of the Brahmas have come from China.
The Sebright Bantams are of the same general type as the Rose-Combs, but in color they are laced like the large varieties of Polish, not spangled like the party-colored Hamburgs.
The larger and hardier varieties of bantams are good for eggs and poultry for home use, but are not often kept primarily for these products.
Rose-Comb Black and Rose-Comb White Bantamsare diminutive Hamburg fowls; Polish Bantams are diminutive Polish.
Fowls and pheasants in same yard on a New England poultry farm] Most pheasant fanciers use large bantams or small common hens to hatch and rear the young pheasants.
The Light and Dark Brahma Bantams were made in England and America in very recent times.
The Chinese and Japanese bantams did not come to Europe and America until long after the name "bantam" came into use.
One may have said that the bantams of the honored guest were not perhaps as small as some other bantams, but that the colossal size of his shanghais was beyond parallel.
In matters of housing, feeding, cleanliness, and care, bantams should be treated just like other chickens.
Bantams are very popular with amateurs who regard them as a sort of joke, but the poultry fanciers take them quite seriously.
Bantams are often preferred, but any good mother will do if she is cleanly and not too clumsy.
Bantams take less room than ordinary chickens which is an advantage on a small place.
As the varieties of bantams are pretty thoroughly mixed, it is no simple matter to breed birds fit for exhibition.
It is not unusual for the prize-winning bantamsto bring as high prices as the heavy weights.
If your father objects to your going into the bantam business instead of raising standard size fowls bring these arguments to bear upon him: Bantams occupy one fourth the space.
The chickens of Sebright Bantams (Dixon) are uniformly dark brown, whilst those of the brown- breasted red Game Bantam are black, with some white on the throat and breast.
Bantams are mentioned in an ancient native Japanese Encyclopaedia, as I am informed by Mr. Birch of the British Museum.
Hannah was standing on the step of the porch, holding a tin pan of chicken food in her hands, and feeding two pet bantams that she kept separate from the shanghais, which beat them cruelly whenever they got a chance.
Hannah, speaking first to Ishmael as she cast her arms around his neck; and next to the bantams that had flown up to her shoulders.
There are beautiful bantamsto be seen in some of the shops here; but they cannot be bought, as they are private pets.
I bought some fine bantams at Yokohama, and a whole cage full of rice-birds.
They have all four, Hoodie especially, got bantams on the brain.
I only got my bantams at Easter, and these are their first eggs.
The bantams had a special wired run to themselves.
Game Bantams are exact miniatures of real Game fowls, in Black-breasted red, Duck-wing, and other varieties.
Bantams are very useful in a garden, eating many slugs and insects, and doing little damage.
Weight is more important in the December and later winter shows than at those held between August and November, but at all shows feather and other points of competitors being equal weight must carry the day, Game and Bantams excepted.
I must have kept a whole family of bantams steadily engaged for weeks together.
She merely bestowed on me a grim smile of unadulterated amusement, and the bantams patronized some less fastidious stomach.
He produced the famous Sebright Bantams by complicated crosses, and by breeding in-and-in; and since his time there has been much close interbreeding with these animals; and they are now notoriously bad breeders.
A nearly parallel case is offered by those black bantams which, as they grow old, develop a latent tendency to acquire red feathers.
Bantams with the larger breeds without much danger of their crossing, but not with the smaller breeds, such as Games, Hamburghs, etc.
One of the bantams having been knocked in the head, and having an eye put out, gave in, and two monstrous prize-cocks were brought on.
These were the object of the whole affair; the bantams having been merely served up as a first course, to collect the people together.
The most deviation that I have seen from grade 1 is found in my strain of Dark Brahma bantams that frequently give grade 2.
How, if at all, can this case and those of the bantams be brought under known laws of inheritance?
Six little bantams were eating crumbs of bread; A greedy bantam took too much, and fell down dead.
Seven little bantams wandered in the lane; A hawk pounced on one; it ne'er was seen again.
Nine little bantams were pecking at the shell; One got free too soon, and fell down the well.
Five little bantams were playing in the barn; The horse stepped on one of them, but did the rest no harm.
Eight little bantams nestled close at night; A weasel snatched one, and fled out of sight.
Two little bantams trod the world together; Cook killed one of them, and pulled out every feather.
Three little bantams were in their mother's care; A rooster pecked one, and then were left a pair.
Four little bantams watched the ducks swim; One tumbled over the pond's grassy rim.
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