Bantam chickens.. a friendly discussion about all pure and mixed breeds.

[MysteryChicken]

Some chicks I hatched this year. Wifi is slow. Would be quicker in the mail. View attachment 1934288View attachment 1934289View attachment 1934290View attachment 1934291View attachment 1934292

I like the silkie cross.

 

[chickens really]

I like the silkie cross.

A Chicken Little I make...........

 

[chickens really]

Anyone else notice with chickens that's all good till hell breaks loose in a flock and it can happen as quickly as turning on a light switch?
I'm not having anything going on thank the Lord but just wondering if anyone's experienced that?

 

[HuffleClaw]

Anyone else notice with chickens that's all good till hell breaks loose in a flock and it can happen as quickly as turning on a light switch?
I'm not having anything going on thank the Lord but just wondering anyone's experienced that?

I did mostly with Largefowl chickens... and quail...

 

[chickens really]

I did mostly with Largefowl chickens... and quail...

Yes...Why I don't have large birds anymore...

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Love the little bitty bantam babies. I hatched nothing but bantams this year, including my own Silkie mixes, but I also have two LF Easter-egger pullets that I bought to add to the brood because I wanted more blue / green eggers and I was sure all my hatchling EE mixes were cockerels... I was wrong, but at the time I was sure. This li'l stinker fooled me because she came out of the egg with a HUUUUGE comb. She's a Silkie x EE cross, but she definitely got her size from her Silkie side.

Baby pic with her brothers, a bantam Cochin x EE mix and another Silkie x EE mix. She had the blue leg band:

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Anyone else notice with chickens that's all good till hell breaks loose in a flock and it can happen as quickly as turning on a light switch?
I'm not having anything going on thank the Lord but just wondering if anyone's experienced that?

Holy cow, this just happened a few days ago here! Two of my OEGB cockerels just decided suddenly that they can't live together anymore. I had to separate them because they'd beaten themselves bloody!

 

[chickens really]

Love the little bitty bantam babies. I hatched nothing but bantams this year, including my own Silkie mixes, but I also have two LF Easter-egger pullets that I bought to add to the brood because I wanted more blue / green eggers and I was sure all my hatchling EE mixes were cockerels... I was wrong, but at the time I was sure. This li'l stinker fooled me because she came out of the egg with a HUUUUGE comb. She's a Silkie x EE cross, but she definitely got her size from her Silkie side.

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Baby pic with her brothers, a bantam Cochin x EE mix and another Silkie x EE mix. She had the blue leg band:

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Awesome....

 

[SueT]

Hi banty peeps! Here's my Sebright Moonshine dressed up for the Halloween contest. She challenges you to join the fun....https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/best-halloween-chicken-in-costume.1335462/

 

[chickens really]

Hi banty peeps! Here's my Sebright Moonshine dressed up for the Halloween contest. She challenges you to join the fun....https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/best-halloween-chicken-in-costume.1335462/

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Adorable...Hmmmm? If I can I'll post a picture...