Bantam vs Standard chicken

[sassysarah]

I usually wait until all are broody, than break them as a group by blocking the nestboxes. They are always so spitting mad when I do that. It's so adorable, everything a bantam does is adorable to me.

Lol! Poor girls!

 

[sassysarah]

Some of this year's kids a few month ago. Notice the standard breed butt behind them on the other side of the fence for size comparison.

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Woah! That butt is bigger than a whole bantam chicken!

 

[Alexandra33]

Bantams, bantams, bantams! How can one resist the charms emitted by something so tiny, affectionate, and personable? And the ability to fit twice as many itty bitties in your coop, to boot? Win-win situation. For me, the pros far outweigh the cons, making bantams a winner in my book. It's easy to scoop up and snuggle several at a time, too.

Bantams are like potato chips. You can't have just one. You must get them all.
Please don't tell my big girls.... (I love them, dearly, too)

~Alex

 

[sassysarah]

I don't mean to monopolize your thread, but come on, look at those adorable bird butts.

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Ikr???! So stinkin' cute!!

 

[sassysarah]

Bantams, bantams, bantams! How can one resist the charms emitted by something so tiny, affectionate, and personable? And the ability to fit twice as many bitties in your coop, to boot? Win-win situation. For me, the pros far outweigh the cons, making bantams a winner in my book. It's easy to scoop up and snuggle several at a time, too.

Bantams are like potato chips. You can't have just one. You must get them all.
Please don't tell my big girls.... (I love them, dearly, too)

~Alex

Haha! They're sweethearts!

 

[Timothy Menezes]

I always viewed bantams as a hobby or a pet, and I have enough pets.

Standards can also be pets but as they pull their own weight by producing eggs for my family they are in a different class.

Its funny, when I started with chickens I had a strong preference for larger duel purpose breeds. And I had a dislike for the white leghorn as it was a purpose bred commercial animal.

Strange how things change, my first white leghorn was sold to as a Buff Orpington. I was annoyed when she turned into a leghorn. But as time went on, she turned into a beautiful friendly little thing that became my all time favorite chicken. That tiny chicken was my friendliest and most productive chicken I ever had. On the rare occasion she didn't lay an egg, she would lay 2 the next day to make up.

So now I have 4 silver leghorns to replace her, they are very good layers but not super powered like she was, which is fine. They are friendly, yet predator savy at the same time. To me, the tiny little leghorns are the perfect chicken.

 

[Alexandra33]

Forgot one detail: small roosters hurt less. Their attempts at intimidation are laughable.

~Alex

 

[sassysarah]

Forgot one detail: small roosters hurt less. Their attempts at intimidation are laughable.

~Alex

Good point!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Forgot one detail: small roosters hurt less. Their attempts at intimidation are laughable.

~Alex

Most of my bantam roosters can run off the large roosters. What they lack in size they make up for in attitude. I can keep more bantam roosters than I can keep standard, so that's a plus to me too.

 

[Alexandra33]

Most of my bantam roosters can run off the large roosters. What they lack in size they make up for in attitude. I can keep more bantam roosters than I can keep standard, so that's a plus to me too.

With diminutive size comes an extra dose of spunk.

I suppose I meant it's impossible for tiny roos to intimidate me. Other birds are certainly a different story!

~Alex