Dutch Bantam

     The Dutch Bantam, or De Hollandse Krielan (its common name in the Dutch language), is an old Chicken breed from the Netherlands. It’s a true bantam, and is always single-combed, and has clean slate-blue legs. Dutch Bantam have small, oval-shaped earlobes, and fine, small and round wattles.

     Dutch Bantams are practical chickens, being good layers for their size (about 160 eggs per year). Egg production is limited to the summer months, and eggs take only 20 days to hatch instead of the usual 21 days for other chicken breeds. Dutch hens are good setters too, and easily go broody. As they are small, they are only capable of covering a limited number of eggs while brooding.

     Dutch bantams are desirable family pets, due to their tame personalities, and the fact of keeping them in confined space so easily. A lot of color-varieties of plumage are also available for this fabulous breed, which include; partridge, blue-red, cuckoo, black, white, blue and lavender.