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Bentamka , or bantamka ( born Bantam ), is a decorative dwarf breed of domestic hens [1] . Originally from Asia ( Indonesia , China , Japan ).
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General characteristics
The live weight of roosters is 0.6-0.9 kg, and hens 0.45-0.65 kg.
Egg production - 90-150 eggs per year. The instinct of incubation is developed.
Varieties
The following varieties of bentamok are distinguished [1] :
- Sebright bows,
- Japanese
- fighting
- Beijing
- black and white,
- Nanking
- chintz,
- nutty.
In Russia , amateur poultry farmers and the gene pool collection of the All-Russian Scientific Research and Technological Institute of Poultry ( Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region ) have chintz and walnut bentamki. The live weight of roosters of these varieties is 0.9 kg, and laying hens are 0.5 kg. Egg production - 130-150 eggs, egg weight - 44 g.
The chintz rooster has a black chest and a trunk with white spots on the feathers , tail feathers are black with a green tint. The chicken has a red-brown plumage with white spots. The color of the legs and skin is light yellow.
The nut-type rooster has a red-brown coloring of the head and mane, the tail is black with a greenish tint. The chicken has a gray-brown plumage.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Bantamka // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.
Literature
- Lesina E. At the courtyard - a calico bentamka: a hen in miniature // First Crimean. - 2005. - No. 96. - October 21—27. [Newspaper article.]
- Bauer W. Zwerghühner: munter, fleißig, keck. - Ulmer, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-3-8001-5154-7 . (German)
Links
- Bentamki in the “Agricultural Electronic Library of Knowledge” of the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (Moscow)
- Bentamki on the website "Home Zoo" Perm Zoo
- Printed bentamka on the site "Encyclopedia of bird owner
- Bentamka - article by S. D. Dmitriev on the site "Hens of rare and decorative breeds bred in Altai"