Bantams that are worth ordering! 🥰🐓

[ChickenWhisperer101]

The only bantams I have are Cochin Bantams (lovely breed by the way) but they would not do well in your climate. Have you ever raised silkies? I tried, and failed. Then got 6 Cochin bantams, expecting some would die, and all 6 lived.

I had two recently

 

[sassychickens76]

Then you should be fine, just don't want anyone to make the same mistake as me and overestimate their hardiness.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

My favorites that ideal has are
White silkie
Gray silkie
Black silkie
Buff silkie
Silver laced sebright
Millie fleur d’ uccle
Blue laced red Wyandotte bantam
Red laced white Cornish bantam
Blue laced red Cornish bantam
Self blue cochin bantam
Mottled cochin bantam
Red frizzle
White frizzle
Barred old English bantam
Black tailed white japanese bantam

sorry there’s so many, it impossible to choose just 10 chicks. These are ones that they have available. Really wish they had EE bantams available. Thanks for the responses and guidance.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Alright, so I ordered a lot of those, let me just explain what I got.

Silkies: out of 8, 7 had toe mutations (spliced toenails, missing toes, odd shaped and sized toes)
Cornish: constantly substituted colors and even breed once. You better like the dark cornish in my experience cause that's what you'll get
Sebright: 2 put of 7 have single combs
Self blue Cochin: 4 males, 3 are very ugly at 7 weeks, with 2 not able to grow back feathers for some reason


Now, I love IDEAL, but just be prepared

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Alright, so I ordered a lot of those, let me just explain what I got.

Silkies: out of 8, 7 had toe mutations (spliced toenails, missing toes, odd shaped and sized toes)
Cornish: constantly substituted colors and even breed once. You better like the dark cornish in my experience cause that's what you'll get
Sebright: 2 put of 7 have single combs
Self blue Cochin: 4 males, 3 are very ugly at 7 weeks, with 2 not able to grow back feathers for some reason


Now, I love IDEAL, but just be prepared

I will say though, the silkie colors are stunning. I kept a grey and a partridge and they're just lovely

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Alright, so I ordered a lot of those, let me just explain what I got.

Silkies: out of 8, 7 had toe mutations (spliced toenails, missing toes, odd shaped and sized toes)
Cornish: constantly substituted colors and even breed once. You better like the dark cornish in my experience cause that's what you'll get
Sebright: 2 put of 7 have single combs
Self blue Cochin: 4 males, 3 are very ugly at 7 weeks, with 2 not able to grow back feathers for some reason


Now, I love IDEAL, but just be prepared

Thanks for the input

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Are the partridge silkies pretty? I was debating those.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Are the partridge silkies pretty? I was debating those.

Here's a grey and the partridge. The other Ps were more brown than orange but still nice looking

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Here's a grey and the partridge. The other Ps were more brown than orange but still nice looking
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I will probably almost for sure be getting a white, possibly 2 and a grey silkie. If I get a fourth silkie it will probably be a partridge. Thanks for the pictures. I think I’m gonna order one white laced red Cornish and see what happens. Still not for sure on other breeds. I’ll do more research tomorrow before ordering them. Thanks for the pictures and help,
-ChickenWhisperer101

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I will probably almost for sure be getting a white, possibly 2 and a grey silkie. If I get a fourth silkie it will probably be a partridge. Thanks for the pictures. I think I’m gonna order one white laced red Cornish and see what happens. Still not for sure on other breeds. I’ll do more research tomorrow before ordering them. Thanks for the pictures and help,
-ChickenWhisperer101

Here's the current flock (3 WLR hens, a WLR rooster and a dark hen) I have. They're friendly birds and I usually get 2 or 3 eggs a day. Grew fast too.