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josie555

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Hi is there anyone out there who keeps bantams from England, I have 6, do you have advice about how often do you get eggs and what do you feed them apart from layers pellets, somebody told me that game bird pellets can increase egg production is this true?
Nicki from Devon, South West England.
 


I'm not in England, but I have bantams. I just feed them what I feed the rest of the girls. On the laying..they all lay different. I'm not familiar with the game bird and how often they lay, but the silkie bantam usually lays pretty well..at first..then off to being broody, like most bantams. :) Some will lay almost every day for a month or two..then go broody. Some, may not go broody for longer period of time, they are all different.
 
Hi Cynthia,
Thank you for your advice, I have found BYC really helpful and enjoy talking to like minded people, I have a different breeds of bantams as large fowl would have been too big for my garden,. I have 2 pekin, I light sussex, I plymouth rock, I Orpington blue and an australorp, 3 canaries and a nutty springer spaniel. What do you use in the nest box? Straw or sawdust and do you worm them I heard that you do not have to unless you see any in their droppings?
Regards
Nicki.
 
josie555 said:
Hi Cynthia,
Thank you for your advice, I have found BYC really helpful and enjoy talking to like minded people, I have a different breeds of bantams as large fowl would have been too big for my garden,. I have 2 pekin, I light sussex, I plymouth rock, I Orpington blue and an australorp, 3 canaries and a nutty springer spaniel. What do you use in the nest box? Straw or sawdust and do you worm them I heard that you do not have to unless you see any in their droppings?
Regards
Nicki.
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I'm in England too. Pekin's lay relatively poorly, I'd expect the light sussex, plymouth rock, orp and australorp to lay fairly well (for a bantam) as their large fowl counterparts also lay well. But bantams lay fewer eggs than large fowl in general, as none are bred for egg production! My wyandottes are all laying daily at the moment, but this is an exception and I usually get an egg every other day from them (when they aren't broody). We use straw in the nest box, it's cheap as bales and does the job just fine. You can get an organic wormer (i think) from pets at home in the chicken section, we use it just for precaution.
 
I use cedar shavings. I am not one to worm without having seen worms in droppings. Happened a couple of yrs. back, all of my girls got wormed. :)
 

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