Raising My First Batch of Bantam Chicks!

[FarmerGirl101]

Hi Pecky…I didn’t abandon you…I had a stroke (actually 2)but I am doing better…just keep me out for a while having my little chicks to take care of was a great encouragement and something I look forward to and enjoyed it very much. I was looking at them yesterday and remembering that you had a Cochin bantam and Mille Fleur d’uccle…
The Cochin bantam is hilarious to look at, don't you think? I told my grandson I was gonna nickname her buddy because she look like one of the Budweiser Clydesdale horseshow are you and your little chicks doing?

Hope you are doing better! Glad you had something keeping you motivated and that you looked forward to. Wishing you all the best.

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Chick update! They are no longer free ranging with our standard hens because 2 of my Silkies got killed by some animal (including my favorite Silkie: White Toes). So I had to do some unexpected payments to buy them a coop and run and THEN a run extension (the gray one). Oh and that white tub has dirt in it for them to dust-bathe because they’re in all grass, but they haven’t used it yet…

Otherwise they are all safe and happy now.
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They were all in the coop for these pics despite it being daytime and I’m hoping this means someone’s laying and egg soon! I have standard hen’s eggs in their nest boxes to help promt them.

I’m down to 9 bantams. This is because 2 Silkies died and I gave away 2 other bantams to a friend (Penny, a cochin pullet, and Pickles, a Japanese cockerel). Nothing was wrong either of those two and I loved them, but I was freeing up space in my banty coop and I had planned to give some away anyway when I bought them.

They all look so pretty! Really makes me want to get back in bantams. I used to have seramas and I miss them so much.