Mixing sizes

[jgconnor]

Do Bantams do OK with other breeds? I'd love to have a few just for the heck of it but, I don't want to have "social" problems.

 

[addictedtochickens]

Bantams should be fine as long as you get a few. You should never get just one bantam in a group of larger birds. There is much more strength in numbers and it is less likely to get picked on this way.

 

[Blue]

I've kept bantams and standard-sized chickens together, and they get along fine. I definitely second what the above poster said about making sure to get more than one bantam.

 

[BrianT]

I have one bantam variety chicken in a flock of 9 and she does fine. I got her before I even thought maybe there should be more than one, but they all seemed to get along fine so I didn't get any more. Here she is; father was a bantam buff brahma and her mother was a buff cochin. She lays a little tan egg.

 

[boogiedog]

I have bantams and standards mixed -all hens- 14 breeds total. I would be cautious, however, if you have a standard-sized rooster in the group. He could inadvertantly hurt a small bantam hen.