No, really, my LAST Bantie purchase...really....

[shelleyd2008]

Layers, well, let's just say you should probably not depend on them for your breakfast. Unless you have a lot, cause their eggs are small and they go broody fast!! I have one that lays at the most 7 eggs before she plops down on them. And she only lays every other day. But they are good broodies, and excellent mamas for the most part, so they make up for it. Mine also didn't lay at all this winter, and once she started laying, 2 weeks later she was broody!

ETA: The one I was asking about was the bigger one that you said has barring or stripes on its wings. What color was that one's down?

 

[amamaofmany]

ETA: The one I was asking about was the bigger one that you said has barring or stripes on its wings. What color was that one's down?

The down on that chick was medium yellow, with some faint reddish-brownish marking along its back and head. Not as dark yellow as it looks in the first picture (without flash) but not quite as light as the second with the flash.

Layers, well, let's just say you should probably not depend on them for your breakfast. Unless you have a lot, cause their eggs are small and they go broody fast!! I have one that lays at the most 7 eggs before she plops down on them. And she only lays every other day. But they are good broodies, and excellent mamas for the most part, so they make up for it. Mine also didn't lay at all this winter, and once she started laying, 2 weeks later she was broody!

I now have 12 banties, and probably will have at least 6 or 7 be roos - and they will need to be rehomed unless they learn to whisper - so maybe I'll have enough out of the ones remaining to enjoy some breakfast from time to time. I actually got them hoping to have some go broody to hatch eggs for me when I need new chicks. Now, I didn't need quite so many, but they hardly seem to be a whole bird next to a standard chick!

I was also thinking that little eggs would be perfect for the littlest boys here - they love eggs but always choke on the yolks - if the eggs were smaller, the whole thing might go down a lot easier for them. I might get more than just peanutbutter & jelly sandwiches into the two little guys!​

 

[shelleyd2008]

You should try quail, my son loves their eggs

 

[amamaofmany]

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Oh, heavens! If I bring home any more birds of any kind, I'm going to be sleeping in the coop with them!

Husband is a good, loving and tolerant man, but its getting harder and harder to justify my buying so many teeny birds....