Just joined and have hybrids and bantams

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Debbiesue

Debbiesue

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May 26, 2013
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Hi I'm from Orpington Kent.

We have had chickens for about three years now. Started with 6 hybrids which last year we increased to thirty. Four weeks ago we bought the youngest daughter 4 Perkins and 2 Welsummer Bantams. They are now eight weeks old and went outside today for the first time. Back indoors now for the night but hoping by next week to move them to their new coop and run.

Looking to extend the family by adding a couple of frizzle pekin bantams and a couple of silkies. We would love to allow them to breed however cannot keep more than one cockeral as we live in a fairly built up area.

Absolutely addicted to chickens especially the Bantams.

I have been using this site for advice ever since we have had chickens so thought it was about time I joined.
 
Hi, again, bantam addiction is good. You can fit twice as many in the same space.
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I agree on banties, you can have more in the same space, and they are easier to hide. Plus silkies look like small fluffy dogs just stick a bow in their crest. Say you had them "de barked" and that's why they make funny sounds
 
Hi everyone and thanks for making me welcome.

We have been in the garden today clearing a site for the new bantam coop and run. The run will be 6 foot wide and 27 foot long. Is it worth grassing or do you think they will just destroy the grass. Our bantams are 8 weeks old now and we have 6 although hoping to extend to up to 15.
We cannot let them free roam as we have too many foxes. As it is we have to fully wire the coop and then cover with soil to give them digging room. Not sure if the bantams will dig as much as the big birds.
Any thoughts?
 

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