Bantams that are worth ordering! 🥰🐓

[FuzzyCritters]

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.

Ideal is a pretty good hatchery. A word of caution on the frizzles though: Ideal breeds frizzle to frizzle, so there is a possibility of getting a frazzle. Frazzle are birds with two copies of the frizzle gene and have super fragile feathers, and some frazzles get other physical defects such as enlarged hearts.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

So I have 9 chicks in my cart and don’t know what to do for the last one. So far I have
White silkie x1
Grey silkie x1
Buff silkie x1
Mottled cochin bantam x1
Silver sebright x2
Millie fleur d’ Uccle x2
Black tailed white Japanese bantam x1

Not sure if I should do another Japanese bantam, another cochin bantam or an old English bantam. I’ve done lots of research between yesterday and this morning and these are the ones that I found to be best for me. I avoided all black chickens (I know the mottled cochin has black feathering, but it will have shade). I decided to not go with frizzles because of their fragile feathers. Thank you all for the help.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Another quick question, since they are all sold straight run I will likely get more than one rooster, so how many roosters max can I have in this flock. Probably only one right?
Thanks,
-ChickenWhisperer101

 

[JacinLarkwell]

So I have 9 chicks in my cart and don’t know what to do for the last one. So far I have
White silkie x1
Grey silkie x1
Buff silkie x1
Mottled cochin bantam x1
Silver sebright x2
Millie fleur d’ Uccle x2
Black tailed white Japanese bantam x1

Not sure if I should do another Japanese bantam, another cochin bantam or an old English bantam. I’ve done lots of research between yesterday and this morning and these are the ones that I found to be best for me. I avoided all black chickens (I know the mottled cochin has black feathering, but it will have shade). I decided to not go with frizzles because of their fragile feathers. Thank you all for the help.

Did you look at the buff sebrights? Or cornish?

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Did you look at the buff sebrights? Or cornish?

Those are cool, I’ll have to look into those more. I think I’m gonna hold off on the Cornish because apparently they aren’t very heat hardy from what I’ve read.

 

[FuzzyCritters]

So I have 9 chicks in my cart and don’t know what to do for the last one. So far I have
White silkie x1
Grey silkie x1
Buff silkie x1
Mottled cochin bantam x1
Silver sebright x2
Millie fleur d’ Uccle x2
Black tailed white Japanese bantam x1

Not sure if I should do another Japanese bantam, another cochin bantam or an old English bantam. I’ve done lots of research between yesterday and this morning and these are the ones that I found to be best for me. I avoided all black chickens (I know the mottled cochin has black feathering, but it will have shade). I decided to not go with frizzles because of their fragile feathers. Thank you all for the help.

That's going to be a great flock!
I'd vote OEGB for the last one so you get a lot of variety in your flock. Plus Ideal has a lot of rare/fancy OEGB colors.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

That's going to be a great flock!
I'd vote OEGB for the last one so you get a lot of variety in your flock. Plus Ideal has a lot of rare/fancy OEGB colors.

What colors do you recommend?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Those are cool, I’ll have to look into those more. I think I’m gonna hold off on the Cornish because apparently they aren’t very heat hardy from what I’ve read.

Huh. Mine handled the heat decently.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What colors do you recommend?

They have a lemon blue that's really pretty. Or crele is always a good choice

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

I really wanted both lemon blue and crele, but they are both sold out.