Choose my bantam chicks for me!!! 😃🎊

[LizzzyJo]

Hi BYC!! I will be ordering bantam day old pullets from Meyer (local for me ) and I would love your input! I will probably get 4. I am not a bantam expert, so I need help!

1. I currently have all social/docile breeds and no rooster.
2.They will NOT have supplemental heat or light and I live in the Great Lakes area
3. They have a decent covered run, but free range 3-4 hours at least every other day on 3 acres of prairie/marshland. Guarded by a LGD.
4. Dark chocolate and blue eggs preferred but not required.

You guys pick and I will make progress posts along the way

Future big sister

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Hi BYC!! I will be ordering bantam day old pullets from Meyer (local for me ) and I would love your input! I will probably get 4. I am not a bantam expert, so I need help!

1. I currently have all social/docile breeds and no rooster.
2.They will NOT have supplemental heat or light and I live in the Great Lakes area
3. They have a decent covered run, but free range 3-4 hours at least every other day on 3 acres of prairie/marshland. Guarded by a LGD.
4. Dark chocolate and blue eggs preferred but not required.

You guys pick and I will make progress posts along the way ❤

Future big sister ⬇View attachment 2438752

This will be fun!!

 

[HappyDuckie]

My favorite bantam chickens are old English game bantams. I’ve never had one, but bantam Cochins seem pretty cool, too. This sounds like fun!

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

Beareded (barbu) D´Uccles. They have boots, muffs, and are very docile. Meyer has mille fleur and porcelian varieties.

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

Beareded (barbu) D´Uccles. They have boots, muffs, and are very docile. Meyer has mille fleur and porcelian varieties.

Their eggs are a cream color sometimes pink. They do not lay a lot but are fine broodies.

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

Mine stay warm well.

 

[black_cat]

Bantam. Cochins. CUTEST things ever.

 

[black_cat]

After looking at the meyer options, I'd go with a bantam cochin, a silkie, a bantam polish, and a bantam barred rock or bantam brahma.

 

[Xouie]

Bantam. Cochins. CUTEST things ever.

YES!!!! Nothing cuter than little round mini fluffballs — wearing feathered pants!! Super mellow too (usually).

*But regular brown eggs.

 

[LizzzyJo]

After looking at the meyer options, I'd go with a bantam cochin, a silkie, a bantam polish, and a bantam barred rock or bantam brahma.

I have wanted a polish FOREVER - but are they cold hardy? I'm talking about 1 week every few years of polar vortex -15ish degrees (-30 wind chill, but they don't venture outside). My big girls have always done fine (orpingtons, etc. )