I have the sweetest chicken, Carmen, who is a bantam. BLB Dutch. She follows me around, does the craziest things (gets into the garage and lays her egg in the rabbit hay & chicken feed) and whenever my parents are in the garden, she goes by them and just talks. Not like squaking, just just talks to them. But, the standards give you eggs, and I just personally like their size better. I have 16 standards and 4 bantams .