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

[bustermommy]

I only have or want LF. What do you do with excess bantam roos? You can't eat them, even if they are horrible. I also don't like how much higher and farther the bantams can fly, or how much easier they are for hawks, etc. to carry off. Bantams are cute, but I just don't have any desire to own them.

 

[SkyWarrior]

Large Fowl because you can eat them and they lay big eggs.

 

[gumbii]

can i have both...???

LOL...


started with OEGB, then got giant cochins, then shamo and now serama... well, i don't have shamo anymore... but i do love them and will have them again some day.... gorgeous birds...

 

[Animalian]

I'm a bantam person. My RIR bantam is 2 1/2 and lays eggs almost every day that are the same size as the store bought eggs. Just took a while for them to get bigger.

I have heard of people eating their bantams on here before.

You could also get an in-between bird. Or breed your own. My EE is 3/4 ameraucana 1/4 d'uccle and her size is kind of in between bantam and standard size.

also, 4 bantam hens cost me $30 a year to feed

 

[Svarthona]

I like both, but I guess I have bantams or really small standard chickens

they are not a real breed which makes it kind of hard to know if they would count as bantams or not lol. At which weight do you consider a chicken a bantam or standard or large fowl?
But I'd like to have some bigger eggs and better kitchen weight of the cockerels, so I'm working on breeding them towards a better size.
(Just replacing them with LF would be too easy

I like challenges.)

 

[Meara]

I have bantam easter eggers as well as a couple standard sized hens. Gosh, it would be hard to choose! I'm able to sell eggs from both kinds, but the standard size eggs fetch better prices. IMO it's almost impossible to know what breeds/sizes you will like the best until you just jump in and try them out. That's why it's justifiable to have a couple of everything!

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

I prefer bantams, because they're smaller and easier to feed and care for (in my opinion). But there's something about certain breeds of large fowl that makes them so appealing... And large fowl can free-range more safely. So I like both, actually.

 

[afchicken]

i like bantams for the variety and color in america you cant get standard sized silkies or seabrights that i know of 2 of my faverite breeds but i also like the giants just becouse i like when ppl come to my house and have no idea what that giant bird is running around my yard

 

[Gresh]

I really like both Large Fowl and Bantams, but in the last analysis I must say that LF top the Banties for me. True, banties are somewhat easier to care for in the sense of food, but they do not yield you the same return (i.e. eggs) that LFs do. Plus, Banties are the most susceptible to predation when they free-range or even if they're just sitting outside in a chicken tractor. LFs, on the other hand, though they won't always win against something bigger than a fox, have a better chance of survival because of their size.
LFs, like Illia said, are not usually less broody than banties. Orpingtons, Kraienkoppes, Asils, Shamos, and Malays are just a few examples of LFs that are notoriously broody--sometimes going broody every time they lay an egg. Purebred LFs will probably still have a tendency towards broodiness on occasion, regardless of breed.
Lastly, I like LFs a little more than banties because I really like big chickens. Nothing beats going out to the run and scooping up an eight-pound hen and cuddling her, or grabbing a ten-pound roo and letting him perch on your shoulder.

 

[destiny_56085]

If I had the space and an unlimited budget for feed, I would choose the standards. Over the years we've had many breeds and I do love them. I don't keep birds only as egg layers though and I don't even butcher my culls. When feed & shavings prices started going up dramatically, the large fowl and turkeys just got narrowed out. Still have some of our waterfowl too, just smaller numbers of those.