Olandsk vs. Mille Fleur OEG Bantam

[Farmers Chicken Farm]

I love the Mille Feur coloring and am also a fan of bantam breeds.

I'm trying to figure out the difference between two different bantam breeds, Personality, egg quantity, fertility rates, heat/ cold tolerance, etc.

Olandsk dwarfs
vs.
Mille Fleur OEG bantams

Thank you!

 

[kurby22]

Well I can’t speak to OEGBs since I haven’t owned them— @ChicksnMore has both of these breeds and might be able to help with the primary differences in personality and such!

I do have ODs so I can share my experience with them. I have a rooster and two hens and I love them. The rooster is gentle, has never shown aggression to anyone, and is a highly efficient mate that serves his ladies well. They have a big strut for their size, but the ladies love him. The hens are good, consistent layers of tiny tinted eggs and last year I had a 100% fertility. The hens I have are active, indifferent to people, and are very easy going with the others in the flock. Good luck!

 

[ChicksnMore]

I love the Mille Feur coloring and am also a fan of bantam breeds.

I'm trying to figure out the difference between two different bantam breeds, Personality, egg quantity, fertility rates, heat/ cold tolerance, etc.

Olandsk dwarfs
vs.
Mille Fleur OEG bantams

Thank you!

My OEGB'S are so much fun and so pretty. Great personalities. My Spangle oegb's were naturally curious about people and a couple of them like to jump up on me, make eye contact and burble at me. My crele oegb's are less people interested but still good personalities. They all grew up together under the same conditions so I think there's personality differences between the colors. They're poor layers of nice sized eggs. Egg size is same as the dwarfs. They lay best when their nest is undisturbed, and they're also prone to going through long spells of no laying. They dislike eggs being collected and they'll try different nests trying to find one you leave alone. Mine aren't so easy about excepting fake eggs...they kick them out of the nest box. They'll go into pouts about egg collecting after trying different nests and just quit laying for a bit. Quickest way to get them laying again is to move the nest boxes around, so best nests for them are movable boxes not attached to the coop. They tend to like laying in the same nest but only one hen will brood...no multiple hens trying to brood the same nest and only one hen laying at a time. I've never had them go broody with no eggs under them. They're good brooders, hatch and care for babies great and the roosters are attentive and protective of the ladies. I have had one rooster turn mean. He's so small it's not a worry and he's not bad... he'll get me in the back occasionally though, but just once. Then he struts around and loudly asks the ladies if they saw how brave he is.

I really love the dwarfs. My experience with them is the same as @kurby22 . Good layers, easy personalities, wanna be mom's. I get some of those also that are naturally people curious and friendly. I've never had one turn mean. They're similar to the oegb's in having some fussing about egg collecting, occasional pouting about it etc. But not as much as the oegbs. They'll kick fake eggs out of the nest...though they'll occasionally except them too. They'll occasionally go broody with no eggs under them but that's rare. They're equal to the oegb's in hatching and raising but they like to nest share for brooding as well. You'll end up with several hens all crammed into one nest trying to brood. They're the closest bantam I've had to normal sized good egg laying breeds for laying consistency.

Their egg size for body size is really great too. The following picture compares egg sizes. The serama is close to a 1 lb bird, the dwarfs are 1 1/2-2 lbs, yokos are 3-4 lbs, alohas are 5-6 lbs. Pretty amazing egg size for bird size. I did pick the biggest dwarf egg layed that day for this pic...lol. But I find the egg size versus body size amazing in both oegb's and dwarfs.

 

[kurby22]

I love the Mille Feur coloring and am also a fan of bantam breeds.

I'm trying to figure out the difference between two different bantam breeds, Personality, egg quantity, fertility rates, heat/ cold tolerance, etc.

Olandsk dwarfs
vs.
Mille Fleur OEG bantams

Thank you!

Oh and I live in the very hot CA valley, they are quite heat tolerant and seem to fine with the cold we get here. The roosters have good sized combs, so they will struggle with frost bite if you live somewhere super cold in winters.

 

[Farmers Chicken Farm]

… they will struggle with frost bite if you live somewhere super cold in winters.

I’m in southern Ohio so temperature depends on the day. We have our current bantams in well insulated coops but we bring them inside if it’s expected to get below 20F.
I would like to find a bantam breed that lays a normal-ish size egg.

 

[kurby22]

I’m in southern Ohio so temperature depends on the day. We have our current bantams in well insulated coops but we bring them inside if it’s expected to get below 20F.
I would like to find a bantam breed that lays a normal-ish size egg.

Yeah, the OD eggs are on the small side...I would say if you want decent sized bantam eggs my bantam Brahmas and my silkies both lay a pretty good-sized bantam egg!