Are you a bantam person or a standard person and why?

[Tanichca]

I am a bantam person, mostly because I have some hand problems and a LF bird is very hard and very painful to pick up for a long time. But my LF are the egg layers, and I love them to death.

ETA: I'm planning on becoming a registered judge with the American Bantam Breeders Association when I'm 21.

 

[Tracydr]

Quote:
My favorite chickens are definitely bantams. I only keep LF for eggs and meat, although we of course eat bantam eggs, too. My LF are smaller LF, other than the meat chickens.
I love OEGBs. Not really useful except for the roosters as flock protection. I may try some cross breeding with some of the colored leghorns, since my silver leghorns look a lot like my OE BB red hens. The OE might give a calming effect to the flighty leghorn tendency, as well, I would hope.

 

[Oregon Blues]

I've got extra large breeds (of ducks and geese). The reason being that the local hawks tend to be rather small and the 9 pound birds are too big for them to attempt. I suspect the hawks would go for a bantam.

 

[Tracydr]

Quote:
I suspect you're right. Although my experience is that color is the most important thing. I've never had luck with white or solid color/lighter colored birds. Wild type colors and redder shades seem to be able to camouflage well and are less prone to predation. I've always lived in the country until the past six years and plan to move as soon as my husband finishes his PhD next year.
Until this past summer, when I got an urban flock, I've always had chickens ( and other fowl like gunieas and peafowl) in free range, high predator situations. I would lose every single lighter colored bird within a few short months of letting them out, gunieas include. Within 6 months, I'm down to the only Camo colored birds again. I have had some LF red naked necks survive, as well as pied peafowl but otherwise, no luck.
The OEGBs (BBReds and Silver Duckwing's) I can't remember ever losing to a predator, amazingly. They're smart little guys. But, I had a trio of Silkies for a very short while as well as some white with black Japanese. They didn't last long at all, especially the silkies.
I'm raising three silky chicks right now for my granddaughter. They should be fine in my little garden, although we do have a feral cat problem.

 

[mama24]

I'm a lf person really, since I wanted dual purpose birds. But since I got some little bantams, I find them amusing and darn cute. SO I guess they're good pets imo.

The eggs are pretty small.