Your bantam sounds like an amazing momma. Is it cold where you live to have chicks this late in the year?
Noticed your name as AMERAUCANAS4REAL -- I love Amer's too but my SoCalif climate wasn't good for our Amer's and I lost our last one during last year's insufferable heatwave. That's my Blue Wheaten Amer at 5 months in my Avatar pic. We miss her sweet gentle personality but she managed to be w/ us for 3 yrs before we lost her.
We're zoned for only 5 hens/no roos. This past year we lost 5 birds so you can imagine how much cycling of new juveniles we went through to keep the number up to 5 hens. I had a perfect flock last year of 2 Silkies, 1 Ameraucana, and 1 Blue Breda. We lost the Ameraucana and Blue Breda to immunity complications brought on by the heatwave stress, but had a juvenile Cuckoo Breda we added to the 2 Silkies. Then we ordered 2 new Blue Breda juveniles and by 6 months old they both died (not a hardy breed -- wonderful birds but too rare gene pool). Then we lost one of the older Silkies to an ovarian tumor. OMG - we were down to just one Silkie and one Cuckoo Breda left and that's when we scrambled last minute in August to get 3 Dominique chicks in hopes of having some layers by next year. Silkies, Dom's, Breda, and Amer's are my favorite docile breeds to get along w/ each other. Dom's are the most active but are a gentle breed to have in our flock.