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[John M. Krafft]

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                               Pyncheon Bantams
                                       
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                   "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.
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                              A Pyncheon cock
                      Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
                                      
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                         breeding pen of Pyncheons
                      Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
                                      
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                               Pyncheon heads
                      Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
                                      
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                             A Pyncheon pullet
                      Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
                                      
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                          Another Pyncheon rooster
                      Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
                                      
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         A Pyncheon male with a pen of Mille Fleur OEG bantam hens
                      Photo courtesy of Robert Sweeney
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