Augsburger Bantam
The Augsburger Bantam is the small counterpart of the Bavarian Augsburger chicken, carrying the same cup-shaped comb and tidy black outline in a lighter exhibition bird. It is chiefly maintained by rare-breed and show poultry keepers, so the goal is not heavy egg or meat output but preservation of recognizable Augsburger type at bantam scale. Hens lay smaller white eggs, and the birds tend to be active enough to benefit from room beyond a cramped pen.
Augsburger Bantams do best in small-chicken housing with predator protection, dry litter, balanced feed, and perches that do not force crowding. In breeding pens, the cup comb, body balance, leg soundness, hatch vigor, and steady handling response all need attention. Small bantam populations can lose diversity quickly, so exchanging unrelated stock and recording parentage are practical safeguards. A neat show bird gives little back to the breed if fertility, chick strength, or ordinary flock manners are weak.
Colors: Barred, Birchen, Black, Blue, Brown, Buff, Columbian, Crele, Cuckoo, Duckwing, Gold, Gold Laced, Laced, Lavender, Mille Fleur, Mottled, Partridge, Penciled, Porcelain, Red, Silver, Silver Laced, Spangled, Splash, Wheaten, White
