Bantam/Large Fowl flocks

[BritneyBradshaw]

I would love to hear personal experiences with bantams and large fowl breeds living in the same flock? I just introduced a 3 month old golden sebright roo to my flock of 14 pullets and one other roo... my girls have already started picking on the poor little guy, but now he is hanging out in the coop while everyone else is free-ranging.

Oddly enough, so far my other young roo has paid no attention to him at all and has not even thought about picking on him.

I have some other young pullets still in a brooder box that I will introduce to the flock at the beginning of July and several of them are bantams as well. Do most people have success keeping tiny bantams with larger breeds?

 

[littlekatzz]

I would love to hear personal experiences with bantams and large fowl breeds living in the same flock? I just introduced a 3 month old golden sebright roo to my flock of 14 pullets and one other roo... my girls have already started picking on the poor little guy, but now he is hanging out in the coop while everyone else is free-ranging.

Oddly enough, so far my other young roo has paid no attention to him at all and has not even thought about picking on him.

I have some other young pullets still in a brooder box that I will introduce to the flock at the beginning of July and several of them are bantams as well. Do most people have success keeping tiny bantams with larger breeds?

I run a mixed flock banties, young, old, and bigger birds. My lil creole old English comes up to the spurs of my full sized rooster. And while the of are top of the pecking order most just seem to go around minding their own business . The ones that get picked on the most are actually my turkeys who at three months are larger then everyone. I'm pretty sure some of my two weeks old chicks are smaller then the turkeys foot. But so far everyone is more intrested in eating weeds and finding bugs then harassing each other. Might be a different story if they were trapped in a small coop together as I have 25+ birds

 

[BritneyBradshaw]

Thank you!

When my young chicks are incorporated with everyone else I will have a flock of 25 as well.. They stay locked in a 9 x 12' coop at night and free range during the day.

 

[maggiemo]

I gave a broody Wellsummer 5 bantam d'uccle two day old chicks last spring to raise, and they were/are just fine. I would even say they are top to middle of the pecking order. Certainly not the bottom. The bantams have always held their own.
I have about 20 large hens and 5 bantams.

 

[BritneyBradshaw]

any other feedback would be welcomed!

 

[Bostonbea]

I have added 2 D'Uccles to my small flock. They were purchase with a New Hampshire Red so the newbies have one regular sized girl in the mix. All 3 are 12 weeks old and getting pecked on but just to let them know where they stand. I have friends that say they have no issues with a mixed flock. Maybe its our human concept of "small" that makes it seem like they'll be picked on more.