Bantams that are worth ordering! 🥰🐓

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Around 4-6 weeks you should start seeing a bright red comb forming for your japanese bantam and d'Uccles. You're right about silkies, I have a set of five currently that are five months old and still neery a crow, egg, tail feather or neck feather streamers yet. I have two I'm about 100% positive are hens but the other 3? Lololol hopefully will know something in a few more months. Normally by about 8 months my guys tend to get sorted out, I can at least see feather streamers by then.

Thanks

 

[JacinLarkwell]

All of my silkies have 5 good toes, and not sure on the sebright and Cochin bantams but they seem fine so far. Will I be able to tell the if the sebrights have the right comb or not at this young or not? I think they hatched yesterday, but not 100% sure. Thanks!

Yep. Any singles will have single combs. If they don't, odds are that they're the right comb

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Thank you! I will go look soon.

Yep. Any singles will have single combs. If they don't, odds are that they're the right comb

 

[AngBantamLuv]

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.

Check ideal again... they have bantam ee listed!! Im going to get some in a few months!!

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Here are some of the bantams I got from ideal! They are 12 weeks old today!

 

[topochico225]

Here are some of the bantams I got from ideal! They are 12 weeks old today!

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Here’s some more pictures. The last one is maple, a EE pullet who has cross beak. She is living with the bantams along with a few other standard chicks. Right now I have 5 cockerels and 13 pullets in this flock. I’m hoping to rehome my golden neck d’ Uccle cockerel in the 3rd picture as a pet quality cockerel pretty soon.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

My roosters that I can see right now are

1. Golden Neck d’ Uccle- Popeye
2. Millie fleur d’ Uccle- Clyde
3. Black Bantam Cochin- Cluck Norris
4. Partridge Silkie- Popcorn
5. Silver Sebright- Spunky

In this order are the ones I want to keep

Clyde
Popcorn
Spunky
Cluck
Popeye (I’d rather rehome him)

How many roosters would y’all recommend keeping with 13 hens?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

How many roosters would y’all recommend keeping with 13

Depends on their temperaments. Most will say only one or 2 at most. I have a flock roughly that number with 3 males currently, but 2 know their places and the third isn't going through hormones yet

 

[AngBantamLuv]

My roosters that I can see right now are

1. Golden Neck d’ Uccle- Popeye
2. Millie fleur d’ Uccle- Clyde
3. Black Bantam Cochin- Cluck Norris
4. Partridge Silkie- Popcorn
5. Silver Sebright- Spunky

In this order are the ones I want to keep

Clyde
Popcorn
Spunky
Cluck
Popeye (I’d rather rehome him)

How many roosters would y’all recommend keeping with 13 hens?

3, plus 1 could die protecting everyone.. so 4. Chicken math works for roos too!