Difference in personality between bantam and full size

[jtbrown]

I started with 11 full-size chicks, went back to TSC 5 days later to get a different watered and came home with 8 mixed bantam ( so new to this I had never seen bantam chicks, so cute). I already had another brooder set up for chicks I am getting April 28. The bantams are quiet, they cuddle with me and are generally laid-back compared to the other 11 spazzy chicks. The 11 big chicks are loud, they are somewhat aggressive around feed. Is this normal of bantams? I am so new to this, I looked for another post similar and didn't see anything. My "chicken friends" have not raised bantams so I am curious will they always be like this?

Also, as a group the bantams don't go for treats -- boiled egg, yogurt, worms. Just curious the big ones gobble everything in sight.

 

[emys]

My uneducated guess is that your full size chicks are just older...

Alternatively, your standard size chicks are of a more rowdy type such as Rhode Island or Leghorns, while your bantams happen to be a more mellow variety such as Cochins.

 

[shellybean40]

I have 9 girls, who are all around one year olds. 3 of them are bantam cochins, from TSC. The big girls started picking on my little girls about a month ago.

I now have to let the little girls out for the day. The big girls only come out for a couple of hours in the evening, when we are around. They wander and we live in the city, without a perimeter fence(working on that one.) I am planning on building a separate banty coop, because those 3 are really more like pets, and I will probably keep them until they die of natural causes. They all roost together, but first thing in the am, I am putting the bantys out. Kind of a pain, but I wanted you to be aware that this could happen.

 

[jtbrown]

Thanks for thoughts. I hadn't planned on bantams but OMG they were so darn cute in the TSC. We are building three sections in our 12x24. One in middle will be where I collect eggs from both sides and be my potting shed/my space kind of thing. One chicken coop will be slightly smaller and would even hold a goat or two. I am prepared, but hope that doesn't happen. Also want to have a small pen or two in garden shed to hold babies or sick/ injured birds. So I think we will be good. I spent about 8 years dreaming up my coop, I hope I've planned well enough, I am sure there will be something I wished we had done different. There will be a run on each side of coop too. We are fortunAte to not have neighBors that can see us and enough land to expand if we need to.