Adding sebrights and seramas to a LF flock? Is this OK?

[DUCKGIRL89]

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I have two Sebrights:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/58939_peepermint_patty.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/58939_marigold_sebright.jpg

They are not very big, and can FLY really well. Mine don't free range unless I am out there with them because we have hawks in the area and they wouldn't fly away because they love the mealworms I have with me way too much. But they can fly up into a tree, across the yard, pretty much wherever they want. I don't have any large fowl, but do have them in a smaller flock situation with easy-going birds that they get along with well.

WAY to cute!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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You might like bantam EEs. They lay really well, too from my experience.

I LOVE EE bantams. The splash are so pretty! Are they sold in hatcherys? Any ideas on who my mom can order eggs from?

I had some that I bought from McMurray.
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/bantam_araucana_bantams.html

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

What color is that? They are cute! I would be interested in some splash more then anything. (BBS is good to) I saw some for sale a bit ago. I wanted a pair SO bad

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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Are you referring to the sebrights or to the bantam EEs?

If you are talking about the EEs, the colors you get are unpredictable just like in large fowl.

 

[PeeperKeeper]

Ii have 55 chickens and 2 of them are Seabrights. They all live in the same coop but free range daily. No problems.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Are you referring to the sebrights or to the bantam EEs?

If you are talking about the EEs, the colors you get are unpredictable just like in large fowl.

Yes, EEs.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

I would never mix Sebrights with a standard flock, they are very, very small and fragile.

 

[Wolftalk]

They would be fine. I have 2 seabrights and they would be okay with bigger chickens. However if you just let them free range durring the day and put them in a separate coop at night thats the best thing to do.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

When I first got my Sebrights I tried to mix them, the poor roo was beat up so bad by the standard hens he nearly died. Both the sebright hens and roo were chased away from the feeder and not allowed to eat.

 

[gryeyes]

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This is almost exactly my situation. I have two Silver Sebright roosters and a Silver Sebright hen in the flock. The roos are feisty as heck (one is obnoxious but it makes me laugh most of the time) and Alice can scamper in amongst any other chicken - or fly, if necessary. She has chosen to roost in the rafters of my coop, which used to be a garage. A bantam EE hen and a white Leghorn hen also roost up there.

Everybody ranges freely during the day.