Cackle?

[NatJ]

I can understand the run on laying hens and meat birds as people stress over the pandemic but selling out of all the bantam breeds? What that all about?

Bantams go broody in the spring. So instead of buying an incubator, you can buy bantams, and you'll be able to hatch your own chickens next year (when the panic is either over or worse.)

Or because some people get puppies when they're stuck at home, some get kittens, and some get bantams. They're one more kind of cute pet.