Breed or Gender...help?

[LunarRayne]

I think it is a little early to tell gender, but I don't have any experience with leghorns.

I have bantam chicks, one of which is 5.5 weeks old. We call her Sunshine. Here is her pic at 4 weeks. I don't think it is a bantam. My chick is still the size of a standard hatchling.

 

[t_4_turtle]

OH! SHE is ADORABLE! ok, I see the difference in size. Now I really want a bantam chick!! how cute!!

 

[LunarRayne]

Correction, she is 3.5 weeks in that pic, but she hasn't grown very much. She is really feathering out, though.

I love her. My daughter helped name all our bantams(Sunshine, Fuzzy, Cloe and if the last one is a boy, Chip... She tends to be correct about gender though...) (and our 2 ducks Corey and Ming-Ming). The only one she did not name is our Silkie, which my husband named Fuzzy before we even had it paid for!
I have decided that a great present for my birthday tomorrow (and my daughter's today) is to buy more bantams. So we will be waking at around 8am tomorrow and be heading to the local feed store to get there when they have just received their new chicks.

 

[t_4_turtle]

Well HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you and your daughter!!! My boyfriend said I can only have one. I"m trying to figure out how to convince him to let me have more. Maybe if I show him how small bantams are he will let me get some? He was totally anti-chicken before I got our chicken, I love Tiger or Tiger Lilly so much and because of that my boyfriend happily allows me to keep our chick. I say everynight before we go to sleep " I love my chicken" my boyfriend replies "I'm glad baby"

 

[chickengrandma]

You definitely do not have bantams. The chicks are about half the size of yours. They are just itty-bitty.

Also, do NOT get only one bantam. They need to have buddies - and the full size chickens will "eat" the bantam if it is by itself - especially if you get one after you already have "grown" chicks. The new little bantam will be picked on terribly.

I would suggest 3-4 banties

 

[t_4_turtle]

Even better in a way to suggest more than one!! Thanks. So after ( if i can get any at all) when they are all grown (bantams and full size chicken) can I house all of them together?

 

[LunarRayne]

Thanks for the birthday wish!

We plan on housing the seperate because we want them to be the pets for the kids. I want my daughter to go gather the little eggs while I am gathering the big eggs. I think it will be great practice and she will have her own little (haha) farm. She love animals so much! She is asking for cats, dogs, bunnies and more chicks for her birthday!

 

[smokeykk]

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Yea they can be housed together when they are older. At least thats what i'm doing. I have 2 silkie bantams and 4 regular sized chicks. They get along fine for me. There are only a few standoffs, and only one was from a normal chick to a bantam. My two chicks, Chrissy and Charlotte always standoff. Hopefully they are sorting ot the pecking order and aren't showing signs of roosters.

 

[Frizzy Chicks]

Here is my before and after shot. As far as we can tell they were two weeks when we got them (pic 1) and they are 7 weeks now (pic 2). Both pics are the same bird. I dont know what he is either.


Pic 1

Pic 2

 

[t_4_turtle]

Oh wow, so you have no idea what kind of chicken you have? Nice bird though. So would you say that was a bantam? looks small for 7 weeks.?