Please explain the bantum thing

[chickenfanatic]

ummm i guess cuz they are cute thats why i keep them around something differant hehehe.

 

[Oceanseve]

well, I can understand how putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad thing, lets say you have 3 bantams or 1 standard heavy breed, you are looking at equivelant egg production, but then you go outside to find a chickensicle or mysterious predator attack, if you have one standard, bye bye eggs, if you have bantams you might still have an egg or two.

 

[desertgirl]

Good point...

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Bantams eggs aren't really that bad, especially if you're someone who doesn't eat alot. I know my neighbor loves my bantams eggs because sometimes she doesn't feel like eating a whole egg.

 

[Dawn419]

We decided to go with Bantams because we don't have alot of flat areas on our rented 2 acres and also because we don't need a ton of eggs, since it's just hubby and I.

We love using their eggs for baking. We just use 2 of their eggs to equal one regular large egg.

Since the days are getting longer and the weather is warming up, I'm getting from 9 - 11 eggs a day from our girls and we can't eat them fast enough or give them away fast enough.


Dawn

 

[jenjscott]

You just have to cook more of them,-they are just as good. Mine didn,t lay nearly as well during the winter though, as my red stars.

 

[mylilchix]

They're just prettier!! I love my standards (I have a bunch), but my bantams are my new precious babies. Last year I swore I'd never get any. Now I have 8, and I'd love to get more. lol I baby them more then my big girls.

 

[greathorse]

I have wondered the same thing. I have nothing against bantams at all and dont want to be considered snarky or anything like that. They have just not really appealed to me. If you go to a chicken show however the bantams outnumber large fowl 5 to one. Or at least they do in these parts. It has given me reason to consider them.

Why are they so much more desired as show birds? I did have one breeder tell me that he breeds for more attitude in Bantam birds as they do much better in the show pen if they display haughtiness.

Yep I wanna hear why so many more folks show them. Trying to keep talking myself out of the darn things.

 

[ranchhand]

I settled the isuue by having both!

 

[MNmommy]

I just became a chicken owner and researched all the breeds and went with the bantams for a few reasons. I like small animals in general( read my siggy) and I also have a smaller urban lot that is only about 1/3 of an acre so figure we don't have a ton of room for the bigger ones. Since this is my first experience with chickens I can't compare the 2. I just got the fuzz butts today and man they are tiny especially my mille fleur.