Buff Orps and Bantams - happy together, or WWIII?

[BuckeyeFoodie]

Hey everyone! if you've seen my post in the welcome forum you know that I'm getting back into chickens after a few year hiatus. Well long story short, after spending some time on this website I chose to add some Buff Orpington's to my hatchery order. 20 of my 26 hatchery chicks will be bantams, with three Buff Orps, and three Araucana's (and I've got six more on order at my local feed store). I am thinking about calling the hatchery and altering my order again to six Orp's.

After doing more reading, I'm concerned that some of the bantams will beat-up on the Orp's if I keep them all together - many of my Bantams are Silkies, and I've never seen them beat up anything, but I know the Cochins can be aggressive little sh**s. I do have the option of separating my flock into two separate runs, but I was really hoping that since I have to re-do half the fencing anyways on the first run, to combine the two runs into one large one to allow my flock to have as much "free-range" as possible.

Which do you think my best option is? separate my large breeds from the Bantams, or all together like my original plan?

 

[kazoo1111]

If they're nice they're fine

 

[KaysKoop]

I only have Buff hens but they get along great with my bantums and even the bantum rooster are in love with the hens.

 

[chickielove87]

I have Red's, Silkies, Easter Egger's and Americana's all together and they all do fine. The only problem I've had is the big Easter Egger rooster and my Silkie hens for obvious reasons, so I separated the rooster from the rest of the flock until I get a divider to split the Silkies from the larger birds so the Roosters mate with hens of their own size...