Brahma - Bantam

In my opinion, Brahma Bantams are the perfect city chicken. They are super docile. Easy for kids to pick up and carry. Their feathered feet don't damage your yard. Best of all, they rooster's crow is low and deep, not easily heard in all the surrounding area. They tolerate cold temperatures extremely well. They lay well (for a bantam) and usually lay during the wintertime when other hens are "on vacation". They are a good chicken for beginners to start showing, since they are very patient with bathing, etc.

I have two little hens.  They are pets only, so egg laying and meat are of no importance to me, so my review is based strictly on personality.  If you want a nice compact feathered best friend, I highly recommend them.  Mine are super sweet and snuggly.  I got them as companions for my Red Jungle Fowl rooster, and they are really tolerant of his antics as well.  I wouldn't trade my girls for anything.  I get major snuggle time with them daily where they can't seem to get close enough to me, and thrive on face rubs and (yes you read it right) kisses.  They are bright little birds that are curious about everything around them, and a joy to have around.  I got mine from a rescue, so purchase price is also irrelevant.

Our Buff Brahma, Goldie, is such a sweet girl. She is beta, and helper to the alpha, Pearl. She is the mother chicken of our flock, always keeping peace between the more flighty birds of my flock. She is also such a card to watch! When she runs, I can't help but laugh at her fluffy self :P. She doesn't fly much, which is good because we have a lot of ways to get out of our yard. :) I would recommend this breed to a beginner, although bleaching and the feathers on her feet make it hard to let her out when it's especially sunny.

I love my two little bantam brahmas, one light and one buff. They are the sweetest, cutest chickens I have ever owned and I have owned EE's, Australorps, Sussex, and Hamburg. They are flat adorable really.

One just hatched 6/8 eggs and is an excellent momma! However they have been such sporadic layers that I didn't even notice when she started hoarding eggs. She had eight, we figure five days of gathering with donations from her sister based on egg shades.

As to the "not the brightest" comment. Neither one of them could figure out how to get up the ramp into the eglu we had. We even modified it to improve the angle and make it a solid ramp, ground to door. Every night for six months we crawled under the coop to pull them out and put them in the coop. We ended up getting a lower coop with a lower angle on the rungs. It still took them two weeks to figure it out.

My 4 little ones are just 3 weeks old.  When I got them (1 week old) they had pasty butts and had to have baths each day.  They are doing well now and last bath was a few days ago.  Love the little feathers on their legs.  Very cute and inquisitive. I have 1 light, who I think is a little roo, and 4 dark, 1 of which may be a roo.....If they are roos I will have to determine whether or not they will get along with my Silkie roo (1 yr old) and my EE roo who is 8 weeks old.  Not sure if they can all get along or not....waiting game for now.

My buff Brahma bantam is one of the feistiest chickens I own. I bought her as a chick from My Pet Chicken and I named her piglet because whenever I would pick her up she would squeal like a pig in indignation. She kind of darts around like a little football player as if she's dodging tackles. As an adult she squeals a little less because I think she's realized mostly that there's no point in protesting, I'm going to pick her up anyway, but she's no less vigorous. She's the smallest chicken in my flock but she's by no means at the bottom; I've seen her take on chickens twice her size. I like her a lot but if I had anything to gripe about it would be how she treats new comers in the flock. Very few of my chickens make  a point to go after new additions but she does and she's downright vicious. I think it's the bantam breeding that makes her the way she is because she definitely does not fit into the typical Brahma personality.

It's true they lay 'smaller' eggs and maybe not as many as other breeds do, but they more then make up for that with their calm manners.  Beautiful birds to have around the yard!  We have two of these and love ours.  The Brahma will be a breed we hope to raise forever!

Very nice chicken great for a small set up