 About Us
Welcome to Ozark Bantams, and thank you for visiting our web
site. We maintain a very pampered
flock of feather-footed cochin bantams. We keep both the black and
white variety of this breed. We also raise white call ducks and black
east indies, both of which are bantam sized domestic ducks. In
ornamental wild fowl, we raise mandarin ducks and golden pheasants. Our
small avian hobby farm
is nestled in the Ozark foothills of Southeast Missouri near the
beautiful
and scenic Current River. Although we often have pet and breeder
quality birds and hatching eggs available for sale, we are
backyard poultry and aviculture hobbyists, not breeders of
show quality
birds. In other words, we do not raise fowl for exhibition
purposes. Instead, our primary goals are to raise these fowl
for
enjoyment and to breed healthy
birds that conform to type and breed characteristics without
compromising egg production and fertility.
We acquired our first generation of black cochin bantams in the spring of 2007. We have since introduced (i.e. out-crossed) a new line into our original flock with the goal of improving type, egg production, and overall flock health. In 2009, we began keeping white call ducks and mandarins. We currently have three pairs of mandarins, including two pairs of split-to-white mandarins and one pair of white mandarins. In 2009, we also acquired a nice pair of white cochin bantams. This pair will serve as the foundation stock for a future flock of white cochin bantams. As of February 2010, we began raising red golden pheasants, an ornamental breed of pheasant from the forests of central China. We are very pleased to have aquired excellent stock of this beautiful and exotic bird. We are a member of the American Bantam Association, National Call Breeders of America, and the Heart of America Game Breeders' Association. In October of 2009, we were pleased to become certified as a pullorum-typhoid clean flock in accordance with the National Poultry Improvement Plan. Our unique N.P.I.P. participant number is #43-699. We are very proud to be sponsored by Brinsea, one of the leading manufacturers of incubators and other avian products. We use only Brinsea products for incubating our bird's eggs. And we're glad to recommend their products to visitors of our web site. So please take a moment to visit the Brinsea web site today by clicking the banner at the bottom of each page of our site. This web site showcases our flock of bantam chickens, our bantam ducks, and our ornamental wildfowl. If you are interested in staying current with us and our birds, then we suggest that you visit our blog regularly. Our blog features recent news and updates concerning our flock and will hopefully provide useful information for other backyard poultry hobbyists and ornamental fowl enthusiasts. If you are interested in acquiring hatching eggs, chicks, ducklings, or adult birds of the breeds we raise, then we suggest you email us for our current prices and availability. Please feel free to contact us by clicking the email icon below. Once again, thank you for visiting our web site. We hope that you will bookmark this site and visit us again soon.
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