California - Northern

[EZFarms]

Going off the old wives tale i should get three males and one female but I'll feather sex when they hatch

 

[EZFarms]

Anyone house bantam and standard together? I'm getting bantams in the spring and I'm afraid they will get sat on. Also I'm getting nankin and Jap bantams would they be able to live outside in winter?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Anyone house bantam and standard together? I'm getting bantams in the spring and I'm afraid they will get sat on. Also I'm getting nankin and Jap bantams would they be able to live outside in winter?

I have some of my mid age Black Penedesenca in with Bantam Brown Red Ameraucana

 

[SpringPeeper]

I hear you!

Tj's is on my way home from work. Whole foods is walking distance from my Office. The eggs I set were only 7 days old.

Fun! I love my TJ hens.

Anyone ever hear the old wives tale about "sexing" eggs?
The tale is that the pointier the eggs the more likely a male the rounder the more likely a female. I'm wanting to test this theory

I have heard it. I am not convinced by what I have read about it, but since I intend to hatch two different sorts of sex-linked birds in the spring (my own black sex linked crosses, BCM over Dominiques, and some sex-linked chocolate Orpingtons) I am going to double-duty my hatch-alongs and also post in the 'sexed egg' one for fun and for the benefit of those trying to investigate it.

 

[EZFarms]

I'm getting some awesome bantams' (including jal bantams and nankin) I'd cry if some of the banana got squished. I'm still needing tj eggs lol four eggs I'd not enough xD

 

[SpringPeeper]

I'm getting some awesome bantams' (including jal bantams and nankin) I'd cry if some of the banana got squished. I'm still needing tj eggs lol four eggs I'd not enough xD

I know it was just an auto correct, but I am laughing over "I'd cry if some of the banana got squished"!

I won't mix bantams with some of my birds, but I do have some Orpington grow-outs in the Silkie pen currently, and I have been considering getting a few Polish hens to keep with the bantams just for fun. Depends on the birds for me. Some bantams are tougher than others, and some standards are more laid back than others.

 

[ronott1]

Fun! I love my TJ hens.

Three of the Whole foods eggs have hatched. One of the TJs egg is zipping.

The Whole foods chicks are solid yellow so far.

Video from today:

 

[prizepete]

Anyone house bantam and standard together? I'm getting bantams in the spring and I'm afraid they will get sat on. Also I'm getting nankin and Jap bantams would they be able to live outside in winter?

i keep my seramas with two black austrolorps

 

[EZFarms]

Ah i love autocorrect lmao. I'm gettung d'uccles, Dutch bantams, japs,nankin,oegb,polish,cochin bantam sebright and silkie (along with yokohomas,sultan,houdan,and orloffs) and as for keepomg serama with them thats how i lost my first serama pair

 

[QueenMisha]

Anyone house bantam and standard together? I'm getting bantams in the spring and I'm afraid they will get sat on. Also I'm getting nankin and Jap bantams would they be able to live outside in winter?

Yeah, with proper introduction it should be no problem. I've had two foot Shamo hens in the same pens as their little 1lb Ko Shamo cousins.

I got a Jap Banty roo outside in 30 degree weather, he's doing fine. Only banties I seen have a hard time in the cold is Seramas. You get down to 45F and they start shivering.