Pyncheon Bantams
"Lady Pyncheon," a Pyncheon bantam hen
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
Pyncheons are true bantams, having no counterpart among the large fowl. They have a Mille Fleur color pattern, a small single comb, and a tassel (small backwards growing crest) extending from a bony protuberance on the skull. The breed is among the rarest of the bantams, although they have been around for a long time. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of them in 1850 and stressed their antiquity at that time.
These birds are good layers for bantams and also good broodies. Chicks are nearly a solid buff with some gray blotches.
A Pyncheon cockerel
Photo courtesy of Rusty Hart
A Pyncheon cock
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
breeding pen of Pyncheons
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
Pyncheon heads
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
A Pyncheon pullet
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
Another Pyncheon rooster
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
A Pyncheon male with a pen of Mille Fleur OEG bantam
hens
Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
A Pyncheon chick
Photo courtesy of Stefan
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