Bantams vs. Standards: ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN! 💥🥊🐔
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Our 5 yr old Easter Egger will sing when her sisters lay. Cracks me up. She can go for a bit and I remind her she didn't lay the egg, she stops...until I shut the door. When she lays an egg...OMG the whole town knows!!! LOVE IT. Best song EVER!
Same with my Easter egger/mystic black onyx mix she is so quiet and then the egg song for whoever laid that day! So cute.
"I'm starting to look like my chickens." 🤣🤣🤣
In the misfit department, when I bought some pullets, the lady threw in Poppy for free. She is Ancona, beatiful markings, blind in one eye, major swelling behind it, and significant head tilt. She does well, seldom needs help, and I love her❤
Aww that's so awesome she has you.
@Hoosier Pioneer The sweetest critters are the ones who have to struggle to live. Giving them love and making their way as easy as possible is a great gift. Nurturing chickens is the very best use of our opposable thumbs, EVER. I'm glad you're using yours to help little Poppy.
I have both. One day I was cleaning out my horse stalls, I heard one of my big hens yelling. She ran by me and on her back was my tiniest Serama rooster Corndog. I laughed for HOURS after that. 🤣😆
OMG HAHAHAHAA CORNDOG???!!! That is literally the best name, especially in the context of this story. 🤣🤣🤣
@@WelcometoChickenlandia My kids name all our chickens 😆🤣, they are much more creative than I am! 😆
Lol that serama sounds like his name is Horndog !!! 😅 That’s funny he held on while she was running 🏃♀️🐓
@@smokymountainangoras oh ya, he wasn’t going to let his size stop him 😆
The Corndog story is the most rollicking chicken tale I've heard in a long while!
I love your chickens and you! None of you are misfits, you are cute, beautiful and charming! I love your videos. I am a new chicken mama, I have 5 baby bantams that I am growing. Thanks for helping us newbies 🐓
Thank you so much!
Bantams can fly really well for chickens. My nephew had chickens and I would bring them treats whenever I visited. The bantams could fly fast and far when they’d see me walking up the hill. Their landings were usually uncontrolled or crashing into me.
Oh my goodness!!
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Silky bantams cannot fly, but they can jump!
I love you! Your videos are fun, uplifting and full of good information! Misfit? Na, not in my mind!
I love my hodgepodge flock! We live on a farm and I started out with rehomed standards that a friend gave me just to begin my journey which included Sexlinks, a Wyandotte, an Australopithecus, Standard Silkies, a one-eyed Red Star (my sweet Ruby), an Easter Egger/Naked Neck. Then I had a new house/run built for my Bantams, Silkies & Cochins, and I added 2 Standard Cuckoo Silkies. But I wanted more colored eggs so I got Ameraucana & Olive Egger chicks and we got them their own house/run. (A friend gave me a shed and we remodeled & re-sided it to match the other) Lastly, the friend that sold me most of my Bantams was getting rid of the rest of his chickens so we built another matching house/run and I bought his giant Lavendar Orpington Rooster, Giant Chocolate Orpington Rooster and 4 Orpington hens, 2 Lavender & 2 Chocolate. I thought I was done but I just got 5 Serama hens & 1 roo. They are in a cage right now but their small coop/run combo will be ready next week. I love them all. Such personalities. They have not been able to intermingle well so I alternate who free ranges. The meanest one is my Bantam Frizzle Cochin, Fonzie. He lets me come in to feed and treat them but I have to keep my eye on him. He’s beautiful and if I could catch him, I would walk around with him every day until I won him over. But right now, nobody messes with The Fonz!
I love my frizzle so much! And my bantams girls, and my rooster bantam, and my speckled Sussex is my baby girl and then there's my goofy Brock one and my sweet, big chubby all black one (forget the kind), and...and...and....and...hahaha
I just want to say, I love your personality and I love your videos💗
Aww thank you!!
We love watching and learning from you. Your energy is contagious😁. keep up the awesomeness!!!
Love your personality! We aren’t misfits. The rest of the world is 😂
Thanks for the information!
Another beautifully detailed video, in which I so adore. I also adore your loving heart to your animals. Take care sweetie 💕
We had a pretty standard flock last year and unfortunately due to an issue in a coop we lost them. This year I decided to order in my chicks and when thinking about what I wanted I decided I just wanted chickens that would late and chickens that would go broody but I didn’t really care what they looked like, so we picked out two surprise boxes of 50 chicks to replenish our huge coop and run and I got all kinds of bantams and standards and I am excited about every single one of them them
Sounds exciting! What do you feed so many when feed is scarce?
Bantam roos are hilarious!
They really are LOL
@@WelcometoChickenlandia And how is Philippe? He's such an arrogant little martinet!
I just love you, you are just so happy and funny..I love those glasses..
I have 2 Easter Eggers and 2 rhoad island reds. 1 crazy chicken from Mexico.
My reds lay every day .
Sounds like a super fun flock! I just got these glasses and I’m obsessed with them. 🤓🤓🤓
Just got a couple of Bantams, and I love them.
I love your smile and your sense of fun! I love watching your videos!
I’ve always been partial to bantams. They’re just too cute!!
They really are!
I got 2 bantums by "accident" and they turned out to be the cutest, friendliest, tasty egg layers I've ever had. They are also smarter. They haven't gotten eaten by the hawk.
I remember as a child we frequently went to Uncle Tony’s(someone my dad knew from work) farm to get goat’s milk for my sister because she couldn’t drink cow’s milk and Uncle Tony and his wife had banties running around everywhere.
When we get our forever home I hope to add several banties and a couple of roosters to my small flock. For now we have ones that will provide almost enough eggs for our needs within our small city’s restrictions.
I love your videos. Thank you for keeping me inspired to be a good chicken keeper!! I've been making changes here and there with chickens i inherited from my mother in law passing... One of her girls died, i didnt catch crop infection soon enough with no knowledge. Thank you for all the information you so enthusiastically share.
Hahaha, your girls are ALL precious, no matter their size! I didn't choose my first 3 birds--they needed me, so I changed my life to fit them in (and I'm glad I did!). I avoided exotics, then my Buff Orp went broody and I got 2 Deathlayers because of the breed. They're big birds, a year old on April 24, and love 'em! But I'd be terrified of stepping on a tiny little bird. I'm such a klutz!
Haha the tiny ones rule the roost over here!
I chose my chicks for laying.. I have 4 black australorps and one Rhode Island red. They are only 5 weeks old as of Monday and I absolutely love them!!
I haven't had chicken's sense 2013 so sometimes I feel like I'm starting all over.. 😂😂😂
Thank you so much for sharing your videos, I love watching them and soaking up all your information ♥️♥️
I'm so glad I can help! Congrats on your new babies.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia thank you
Love your channel.🙂 I'm new l love it. I have both they get along well together so far. Love my Bantams.
we of course need both! Like all things in the world we need them all! It takes all different types to make the world go around :)
I have never been so proud to be a misfit! Thank you Mrs President! 💜🐔🐓
I LOVE Bantams. Salt and Peppa are so sweet. & So is Beast!
Thank you!!
i love your content cant wait to catch a live xoxo
Thanks so much!!
I just got 12 bantams afew weeks ago..1 died..but my other 11 are doing great other than cleaning afew pastie butt's..I'm 62 first time I've had chicks since I was a young child...I'm excited to be a chick 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥 momma..thank you for all your videos..they are helping me tremendously
I’ve never had bantams, but you sure have made me want to try them. 🙂❤️
This woman is so awesome! Glad I found her channel
I love the variety u have. That’s what my favorite thing to have is, a mix of weird chickens. I love the comments people give when they see them.
I bought scratch and peck organic grower and I absolutely love the quality, and my babies love it too, thank you for the educational information you give us 🐓
You are so welcome!
You Lil Sister could not be more Adorable!!! I just Love your Vid’s & All your info!!! I’m on Key Peninsula here in Western Washington & I have 15 Layers + Frank (our Roo) & Josie (our Pilgrim Goose)…adding Mr. Billy (American Buff Gander) for Josie cuz I’m really hoping to raise “some” Geese for Meat Birds…possibly…those two shouldn’t be ready to Lay Fertile Eggs till next Spring. Josie in Laying but she’s not a year old yet. Mr. Billy is 5 days old, so…be long time for him…snicker. Loving your Attitude & Love for “Chickies”…like Me ❤
Sounds like a fun bunch! Thank you so much for watching.
The bantums that I ever had were so cute and loving.
did you turn your back yard into a micro nation?
and thanks this helps cuz i got 2 littel batams and i did not know if i can keep bantam chickens with big chickens but if things dont work out i will just put them with my Quails and if that dosent work out i will just bring them insid as pets
Excellent video
I have question about how to keep a flock of different breeds and at the same time able to hatch chicks of pure breed?
My new babies! They all seem healthy but I’m such a worry wart chicken Mama.
This is my Lil amazing random flock💛🐣🌞4 Buff Orpingtons
4 Light Brahmas
2 Pearl Star Leghorn
2 Black Sussex
4 Mystic Marons
2 OldEnglish Silver Wing Bantam
What size egg does your mixed bantam lay?
Ultimate showdown!
Do you have any videos on integrating baby chicks into a flock?
I saw one from Bawk Bawk and these 2 channels are friends. Both wonderful
Everyone up my hollow knows chickens since we all have them. I have a few standerds, but for eggs and meat I have ducks. Chickens are just and add on.
I been thinking of getting some ducks. I want to raise smaller ones because they will more than likely be in a pen with a pool and a place to lay. I was thinking of runner ducks. What do you recommend??
I have both and they mingle just fine!
Love her!!!!!
I LOVE ALL MY BANTAMS !!! The big standard girls give me grief everyday, I only keep them for the eggs 🍳!!!! 🤦♀️
Hahahaha They are worth it!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia …. Yes they can be sweet hams when they want treats from me, but all the screaming for the nest box or whenever drives me crazy !!!! 😵💫
Do you quarantine chickens when you adopt new ones? If so how long?
I have 6 bantams....Everbergs and D'Anvers. I love them all but am very excited to hand raise some standards someday. My little gals are attached and bonded, but they are skittish and can fly like you wouldn't believe! They are also hard to find if they get broody on the property! Ours are full of characters, but not cuddles!
Haha yes! Broody chickens are the crankiest LOL
If you're looking for cuddles you can't go wrong with Silkies. They're a bantam so you can add to your flock. A little pricey for chickens but trust me they are worth it, I absolutely adore my silkies
I created miniature silkies and they are as small as Seramas and are adorable ❤️
Omg I want them lol!! 🐥🐥🐥
@@WelcometoChickenlandia they are a pound or less, I've got 2 at the vets right now, and I lost 2 of my seramas last week, I had rehomed my mini's about 2 months ago to a girl who kept them inside like I had but let them mix with her outside flock and ducks on a few nice days, well long story short, she no longer wanted them so I brought them back home, and they must be carrying something, because after 2 weeks of them being home my serama Roo and his hen became I'll, I threw everything I knew at them to help them but by last Thursday they just weren't responding to any treatments, so I had them put to sleep, then last night my teeny tiny roo started making same rattling noise that my serama was initially making so we rushed to the vet immediately, A question I have is,. If it turns out to be Avian flu will the state order me to euthenizemy other bird's? I'm so beyond heartbroken, I have put so much effort and love into the birds I have, they have been the only thing that has kept me 6 feet above ground to be honest, it's my fault because my friend that took them and gave them back seemed to have had a healthy flock, and I just took it for granted it was ok to let them mingle after a week, so it is all my fault. I sanitize everything did it all but quarantined, it could have made all the difference in the world. 😭
Lol i have big easter eggers with silkies and quaill all the same age boy its fun lol big brooder two heat sources helps dont want them stepping on each other
How fun!!
I got three highland reds in Jan . The first one laid on march 8 the second a week later. The third , she was slightly younger than the others, she still hasnt laid . She doesn't squat yet when you touch her back. Shes a sweet happy girl. Is it possible she might never lay ? Does this happen?
What’s your opinion on Exhibition poultry and preserving the breeds? As someone who breeds poultry do the APA standard I always wonder what others think.
I think it’s great there are those doing that. ❤️
I have both in my flock. My bantams keep up with the big girls in egg production and are so much more friendly i love both but i prefer bantams more!
Bantams are soooo adorable
Aren’t they?? 🥰🥰🥰
I love my bantams!
I LOVE the diversity of your flock. I'm sure I'd enjoy bantams! To me your flock aren't misfits; they each have their own unique personality, are all so pretty, are a wonderful part of your flock, and I love the obvious affection they have for you, and you for them. Their communication and their antics are so much fun to watch, and your interactions with them are so sweet and often hilarious. I didn't have a choice whether I had standard size chickens or bantams when I ordered through our local co-op, and I'm not allowed to have roosters at all unless I have 2 acres or more of property; we don't have 2 acres. I can have a total of 10 chickens. So, I went for breed. I chose Plymouth Barred Rocks since they are personable, good with kids, can tolerate being in chicken runs, or free range, lay during the winter, and are a hardier breed tolerating both very cold and some pretty hot weather since we can get both types of weather. We don't get the extreme heat. We all are smitten with our chickens, and everyday they let us know they love us too!
I love my speckled sussex named Gemma, she comes to her name and falls asleep when getting a good pet.
Best overall bird is my easter egger, big blue eggs and she naturally has no comb or waddle and is super hardy for Ontario winters. My other birds always get a little frost bite each year
Does anyone have experience bantams being around regular size roasters? We just rescued some bantam chicks (the feathery leg ones). It wasn't planned and all our other chickens are standard size, including the rooster. We are wondering if we will need to keep them separate once they are old enough to be outside. Thank you for the video! I was having trouble finding good info.
Yes ma'am the sister chicken I noticed one has more black in the feathering around the neck area then the other one so that could be easy to depict which one decipher which between the two for the naming anything that you give a name it is very hard to depart with so never name anything that you plan on giving away or slaughtering for fresh meat and it'll be a lot easier
My two starlight green egger hens run to me whenever they see me. I even think they may be smarter than my black australorps!
I’m thinking of getting a smallish coop from Tractor Supply, adding wheels to make a Chicken Tractor I can move daily in my back yard. If I can get 3 Bantam hens (maybe 4?) with no rooster, I realize the eggs would be smaller but my flock would still be entertaining… any thoughts?
@Jrhnhemp Go for it. I would recommend 4 bantams if you can, in case something happens to one of them. Their eggs are smaller but not that much smaller. I think the yolks are close to standard hen sized yolks. I have 2 bantams and two standard size hens. My standards have a big open top run in the backyard. I keep the bantams in their coop because of birds of prey. The bantams are very cute, friendly and smart. They were free so I didn't mind that they were bantams. Now that I have had them for a while I really enjoy the bantams personalities.
I like both equally.
My cream colored flea market chicks grew to be very large friendly and attention needy my mixed Bantie youngsters except two are aloof like their moms that are apart of my org adopted older birds that are all the same way except for Bec’s she became our house bird for over a year but died recently after a log battle of a problem that never fully got better
Aww I'm sorry for your loss.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia her passing was sad but the joy she brought was worth her being in the house n front yard with the dogs it was like having a tinny feathered dog who picked up on their habit of politely or not begging n would watch scary movies on the couch if I forgot to lock her cage up at night n she heard me up watching tv n the dogs abandon me all alone
hello can I ask if I can buy bantam hens from you . I live I PEI Canada?
A couple of my standards are so loud! Seriously its like I have little velociraptors. One of them sounds like a turkey. And a couple are quite vociferous with their egg song! And I dont even have any roosters yet.
I keep trying to tell people there's no guarantee for a quiet chicken lol!
I have 2 standards and a bantam and my bantam hen Mr Kaplan is the boss. She really makes up for her size 😅
The bird flu is affecting uncovered enclosures really badly in US. Might wanna put some tarps or something over any area where wild birds can crap. I don't know anything about chickens, but my neighbors just lost 400 HERITAGE and rare birds. Half died, they called in the authorities to have the rest put down 😭
aww that's so tough. I hate when that happens!
You must be neighbors with the Marsala Family. It's beyond awful what happened to their flock. They had to have even the healthy birds put down. I'm new to being a chicken Mama, but I went out and bought a heavy duty tarp for the top of my chicken run before the girls went out there to live. They went out their yesterday and are still confined to coop because they're 7-1/2 week old silkies and need a bit more time inside. I feel so sad for the Marsala Family. I believe there is a GoFundMe that was set up for them, but I'm not sure.
Where is this area? Thanks
I've had both but I do have a soft spot for bantams.
Me too!
My good friend use to show chickens, bantuns are his favorite as well. He helped me decide on my breed, I wanted LF and black and white. He thought the Columbia wyandotte would be the best choice d/t rose comb and our winters, brown eggs were a bonus surprise. Hens are very friendly, roos are absolutely not. Those looking for duel purpose, this is not the breed, slow growing and meat is what I call stringy. I'm hoping to change to Aneeican Bress for duel purpose, hoping the roos aren't as aggressive.
❤😢 What do you do if you're shipping this one out?Stand up but it can eat and it can drink.And you only have one new.It's kind of like a baby too
Can I raise a bantam rooster with a standard size rooster?
I just started with chickens this spring. They are my pets as well as providing eggs, fertilizer for my garden, and for weed and bug control in my garden and yard. I have 3 smaller mystery chicks white and a few black feathers, with feathered feet and Mohawks, one grey mystery chick with feathered feed, 7 buff orpingtons, 2 lavender orpingtons, 2 ameraucana, one barred rock, one Rhode island red, one turkey, 2 ringnecked pheasants hens. The turkey is a complete mystery to us because I got the eggs from my inlaws they had barred rock hens and a barred rock rooster, Rhode island red hens and a white rooster with red saddle, feathered feet and a pea comb. No turkeys. But I hatched out the 3 white feathered footed chicks the grey one the barred rock, and the turkey. They all hatched at 21 and 22 days. I know turkeys take 28 days. But he is definitely a white turkey with a couple dark feathers on his wings, we call him Unicorn. I know I have 4 or 5 maybe more roos and I can't have them here because I live in town, but for now they are only 8 weeks old so it is OK for now. But next year I want to add 2 Bielefelder, 2 of each light, dark and buff brahmas, 2 jersey giants, 2 French black copper marans, 2 Cochin, 2 Columbian wyandotte. Thankfully I have a very large yard and no really close neighbors near the back yard lol. I am converting my gazebo/greenhouse into my coop and adding a large run. Right now they are still in the brooder during the night and rainy days and out in their covered pen during the day.
Just WOW!
So funny and it seems that you love chickens. I have the white breed that you showed . Sussex something like this right?
I love her she is so beautiful and I was lucky that we got a female and not a male when we took them as babies chiks.
❤️🙏🐥
Have you had any issues with your bantam and standards sharing a coop or introducing new bantam to standard members of your flock? Other than the usual issues of course with any chickens
No, but I follow a long integration process and only integrate tiny bantams when they are a little older.
Yes my red layers are not broody hens so im still getting eggs
Easter eggers are not very broody right now anyway but the silkies stole their eggs lol but not stealing anymore so we are getting some easter eggs
Silkies and seramas even the mixes are broody hens lol
Thats very handy
Our serama has actually hatched quail eggs but sneaks in her own eggs too lol
Aww that's so cute!
I have a silkie bantam I bought recently and realised that there is a problem with her. I'm really worried and stressed. She has aiming problems, can't take the snacks from my hand, pecks my hand instead, also pecks randomly in spaces with no food instead of the food in the plate, the same with water. Does anyone know what it could be and how to treat it? Her eyes look fine and I also trimmed around her eyes. But she still always pecks lower than where the food or treats are.
Does she have a crossed beak? I read chickens with crossed beaks sometimes have that problem. I have 1, but she has trouble picking up food, but seems to aim ok
I got super lucky and got 7 hens/1 rooster from my bantam batch. Right now they lay about 5-6 eggs per day here in central Ohio.
Wow that’s great luck! You should buy a lottery ticket now lol! 🐥🐥🐥🐥
@@WelcometoChickenlandia unfortunately the first batch was 10 and I lost 2 chick within 48 hrs, but the remaining 8 are little monsters!
I started with 3 standard red layers but a year later we discovered a place where we could get bantams ♥️- silkies, polish, gold tops ♥️, I love them both really much but I don't think I'd get any standard hybrid layers again got our 3 in 2019 at pol n not had a egg since May 2021 only two years of laying x
I've heard that's about all the hens lay and that's why you start small and gradually add more every year (chicken math). Chickens live 7-10 years in good conditions and protected from predators.
That’s unusual for high production breeds to just stop completely like that. Are you positive they aren’t hiding eggs somewhere? Sounds like a fun flock!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia no I have them separate pens and there isn't anywhere they could hide them, also they have never had a big moult either, I did wonder if person who got them for me had got older birds instead of pol but looking back at photos they did have smaller combs to suggest they were pol, so I have no idea x
Are you secretly watching me lol I literally just got 20 baby Ginger Red Old English Bantams Monday lol I loved my little girl Peep when I had her. Unfortunately she passed away a few weeks ago, I have a few if her eggs in my incubator. I found out what breed she is and got 20. She was so friendly and loved being around me. She was definitely spoiled!!! Lol
OMG I love love LOVE Old English!!! They are one of my favorites.
Im curious why you dont let your bantams hatch chicks,i love when they hatch them 🥺
I raise Rhode Island Red bantams and olive egger large fowl. Not all bantams are super small. My reds are prolific and lay medium to med/large eggs. The olive eggers lay different shades of large green eggs. I also have Call ducks which are bantam and lay well too. I like to say I’m driving my husband crazy one chicken at a time.
Bantam Silkies! They're corny and only lay 2-3 little eggs/week when they aren't broody. It's just me and my daughter, so (other than December baking) we don't need all the eggs the layers would give us. Ours just went in the coop yesterday (couldn't stand them in the house anymore). In about a week I'll activate the automatic door and teach them they have a run. The run has a dust bath, nesting swing, grass frame, automatic waterer, and a feeding tube. Love your videos and appreciate all your advice.
Lol silkies are corny but they are sooooo cute!!!
OH THE DUST! NOBODY ever tells you about THAT! Almost a year later and I'm still trying to get it out!
@@heatherk8931 Well, I ended up rehoming 4 of my chicks because they turned out to be roos. Then I went through Meyer Hatchery for 4 more babies. I went through them because you can get vent sexed day old chicks. I stuck with bantams and got 1 silkie, 1 mottled cochin, 1 green queen, and 1 steel egger. They were hatched Aug. 29th and raised in the garage for 3 weeks before they went to the coop in a cage for a week. This was in SoCal where it was extremely warm. There were no issues with them getting along with the 2 older remaining silkies. By-the-way, my 2 older silkies have been laying eggs daily, not 2-3/week. The only time they've stopped was for a week when we moved to Idaho last month! The 6 are living in a covered doggy play pen until I can finish the new coop . . . but it snowed a couple of inches today (1/19/23), so that has to wait, unfortunately.
@@Sarat0n1n Hey Sara! You sound like me, lol. My dad lived in Santa Ana till he passed last week. But I live north of Sacramento, where it's very hot in the summer -> 100-113 most of the summer. My babies were hatched 4/12/22, and I got 2 roos, 5 hens. 4 have been laying, but with all the cold wind, rain, only my Silver Wyandotte has given me an egg consistently, or only missed a few days.
It's been a crazy year for sure. I'd live to get out of California for the same as probably.
I chose standards. There’s a larger variety and my in laws only permitted birds so long as they earn their keep! Bantams were a little too delicate with our environment too. My girls are big, and only getting bigger. It’s pretty funny watching hefty big breeds try and run around in their backyard. I’d always love to introduce bantams, but my girls are sorta bullies and I wouldn’t like to stress new birds out and figure it won’t work. My smallest girl is a vorwerk, and I have a vorwerk rooster. I plan on breeding and preserving the breed since they’re quite rare here :)
I keep reading that bantam hens are at risk of being injured by a standard large size rooster.. I am hoping you might disagree as my chickens absolutely love free ranging and don’t want to separate them.. as it would mean that some will be in a coup.
My Cornish Cross roosters are just beginning to mount my bantams, they are 13 months old….I do have 7 Cornish Cross hens but the bantams are easier for them to mount it would seem…even though they’re definitely trying to mount the Cornish Cross hens….I have 2 roosters but haven’t decided yet which one to keep.
Hi! New subber.. Will Bantams try to hatch Standard eggs, if necessary? 🤔
Yes, if they are broody and want to be mamas, they totally will hatch out standards! They will even hatch and raise baby ducks haha.
Great! Thanks for sharing- glad to have found your channel! 🤗
Thanks so much for asking that, Shawty! I was wondering too, but I forgot to ask. Duh!
My colored egg layers win the show down in my flock ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Do standards treat bantams the same as other standard chickens or do they pick on them more because they're smaller? I would love to have some bantams but I have standards and I'm scared they would be so mean to smaller ones 😞. I have buff orpingtons, breese, and I thought I had 2 barred rocks but after watching your video today I'm now wondering if they might be Dominique's... 😂. I also have a roo who's a silky mixed with buff orpington and he's gorgeous 😍. I also have a roo that is either a road island red reproduction or an old English roo considered a, "fighting roo" I don't know for sure... but what I do know is he is going through rooberty right now and ugh... He's a handful. He doesn't chase thank God but he does kind of stalk and threaten here and there. He did jump my back once and he's gone after my husband a couple of times and we have been doing the thing where you gently but firmly hold them to the ground with the 2 fingers in a v shape behind their neck and a hand on their rump to show them your the dominant one. He's learning his boundaries and what's a threat or not a threat to his girls. For the most part he's getting better but he has his little moments here and there. I've raised him since he fit in my hand and have spent SOOOOO much time with him I was hoping and praying he'd skip this part buuuuut well ya know how that goes!! My silky roo is the absolute gentless, sweetest, but very protective guy ever and I also have 1 buff roo who isn't even crowing yet but was already being very mean and aggressive to me. I did the kiss the ground trick with him only 1 time and he's been great ever since ❤ buuuuut my Sunny roo - my baby... He's a feisty boy. I'm scared he would be so mean to little bantams. HOWEVER!! I'm sorry I run on so much but however Sunny has actually been pretty good to the younger chickens - it's been his 2 girls the "either bared rocks or Dominique's" that have been really territorial and kind of bullying (not really horribly bad - just pecking order stuff)... because they're spoiled 😂 and have had their own place to themselves since teeny babies until a couple of months ago. I also just started supervised free ranging with all of them and that helps so much with all the huge yard and space. The girls are getting better and everyone seems content and happy...
But back to the point - I just don't know if bantams could survive my standards and I'm scared to try. There are so many beautiful breeds I would love to have. It's like Pokemon - CATCH EM ALL 😂... My husband almost brought me home 2 bantam silkies the other day ❤ which I would have been absolutely head over heels crazy for but I'm grateful he didn't because I'm so scared they would endlessly torture and bully them and I can't take that 😞.
We have serama chicks hatching at the end of the month too silly broody momas
If i had to choose my seramas because i can keep them inside if i need to
They brood their own and quail
They lay lots of tiny eggs i don't mind small eggs sometimes for baking for just me i need a half of an egg
And you can eat the roosters if you keep hatching babies they are a nice white or yellow skinned chicken small but nice
I would love to have some quail!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia they are fun especially with serama they are ruffly the same size quail tiny bit smaller but not much
misfits
have a sweet cross beak olive egger.
with a bunch of other chickens of all kinds
from naked necks to Black Cooper Maran
i am the crazy chicken lady
my Rooster Casper is a silkie and he is pretty loud
What's been your experience with integrating bantams into a flock of standards? My wife wants to get some bantams to be broody for our not at all broody layers, but we're concerned about the bigger birds injuring them. Our Silver Wyandottes and RI Reds can be real bullies.
My alpha is a Silver Laced Wyandotte as well. First to lay and still going even in the cold wet of winter.
Which bantam breeds or standards have you found are the quietest?
🐔 ONCE A 🐔 FLY OVER MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a chicken Brahman
Well I guess it depends on who your surrounded with. As your followers we dont feel like misfits here much less would be the ... president... so :)
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