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.