Japanese Bantam Club 

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  Black Tailed White

Male and female plumage: Body feathers white, wing primaries and secondaries should have white outer and black inner webs, the closed wings look almost white. Main tail feathers black. Main sickles and side hangers black or black with white edges. In both sexes: Eyes red. Legs yellow.

Black Tailed Buff

Male and female plumage: The same markings as the black-tailed-white, except that the white is replaced by buff. In both sexes: Eyes red. Legs yellow.

White

Male and female plumage: Pure white without sappiness. In both sexes: Eyes red. Legs yellow.

  Black

Male and female plumage: Deep full black with a green sheen. In both sexes: Comb and face red. Legs yellow, black permitted on shanks, but underside of feet must be yellow. Eyes red or dark.

Birchen Grey

Male: Silver neck and saddle hackles streaked with black, breast laced to top of thighs retaining light shaft to centre of feather. Tail black with green sheen.

Female: Silver laced neck hackle to be clear cut, back and tail black. Breast feathers laced to top of thighs retaining light shaft to centre of feather. Lacing to be clear cut completely surrounding each feather. In both sexes: Red face and eye, Dark face and eye if possible. Legs yellow or dusky with yellow sole.

Mottled

The black:  Male and female plumage: All feathers should be black with white tips. The amount of white may vary, but the ideal is between 0.94 cm and 1.25 cm. Tail and wings similar but more white permitted.

The Blue: Male and female plumage: As above but blue instead of black.

In both sexes and all mottleds: Beak to match legs, which should be yellow or willow. Eyes red or orange.

  Blue

The self: Male and female plumage: All feathers blue, neck feathers may be a darker blue than the remainder.

The Lavender: Male and female plumage: All feathers a lavender blue to skin, even shade throughout.

In both sexes: Eyes orange or dark brown. Legs slate or blue.

Cuckoo

Male and female plumage: The feathers throughout including body, wing and tail to be uniform cuckoo coloured with transverse bars of dark bluish grey on a light grey ground. In both sexes: Beak yellow marked with black. Eyes orange or red. Legs yellow.

  Brown Red

Male and female plumage: Same markings as for Birchen grey but all silver to be replaced with deep golden orange.

Other permitted colours which follow descriptions for Old English Game.

Black Red cock. Wheaten Hen.

Gold Duckwing cock.

Red. Tri-coloured. Blue Red. Silver Duckwing.

This Website was prepared for the Japanese Bantam Club of Great Britain by Terry and Lisa Crook. If you have any questions or comments please Email the club at: japclub@ukonline.co.uk

Last updated on 24/02/2005