Ideas On A Bantam Flock?

[RodNTN]

Good afternoon everyone! Sometime (not exactly soon, but in a couple of years or so) I want to have an all bantam flock. Overall I want docile birds with a variety of colors. What breeds do you all suggest?

Here are my favorites:

Silkie: White, Buff, Splash, Black, etc.
Cochin: Splash and/or Mottled, and Frizzled.
d'Uccle: Mille Fleur, Self blue
White Crested Black Polish
Black Tailed Buff Japanese
Sebright: Gold and Silver
Easter Egger
Barred Rock
Old English Game: Wheaten, Spangled, and Red Pyle (maybe Self Blue?)
Brahma: Buff
Columbian Rock
Serama

Do you all think that these birds would get along? Also, where can I find a Serama breeder? I have no idea where to look for them

What do you think of these breeds? Thanks in advance!

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Bantam Cochins are small my OEGB are tiny both have great personalities. I can pick up my Cochins and snuggle them, my OEGB are independent and not snuggly. I love both breeds.

 

[WunnySharbit]

My daughter's fitting and showing chicken was a bantam cochin. I stopped having bantams -- the neighbors can feed their own cats!

I think the first step is to figure out why bantams and what you plan to do with them. I mean, are they going to be for show or your pets or genetic fun or hatching for sale or diet eggs or just cute little chirpy garden fluffballs or ???? Breeding or show stock would need to be separated to keep breed purity. Each of my puffballs is a different color, so my yard is a rainbow of chirps--no rooster, no hatching, no chicks. Free-ranging bantams can also be an adrenaline rush because everything sees them as bite-size morsels, but it could be a great weight-loss program running outside, down the stairs, across the yard with a broom every 15 minutes!

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

Silkies all the way. Super docile. My roo is SUPER nice.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s so cool. I’ll have to look into them more. I had a cochin Bantam frizzle that was a pistol she kept all the LF in line, sadly she passed away last fall at age 10 her best friend was my LF Brahma hen.

 

[Cyprus]

I would leave out the Silkies and Polish. They get bullied for their crests.

My D'Uccles don't fight back, be forewarned that they get driven off food. My banty Cochin cockerel was a monster.

 

[Ra_]

I think you'll be happy with Silkied Serama.

 

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

The silkies and cochins get pretty big as far as bantams go, especially the roosters. so it depends if you want all mini breeds or big and little bantams. Also they might pick on the others because they get much bigger

 

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

My Bantam Cochins are small my OEGB are tiny both have great personalities. I can pick up my Cochins and snuggle them, my OEGB are independent and not snuggly. I love both breeds.

Im so stupid, for some reason I thought she was talking about LF cochins I don't know why because she is talking about a BANTAM flock

 

[RodNTN]

My Bantam Cochins are small my OEGB are tiny both have great personalities. I can pick up my Cochins and snuggle them, my OEGB are independent and not snuggly. I love both breeds.

I love my OEGB's, but they just don't like to snuggle, huh? But their funny personalities are one of my favorite things about them!
I would also love a couple Buff Orpington bantams, my standard ones are such sweethearts! It would be nice though to have a lapdog that isn't 6 or 7 pounds