The Bantam Club

[sue25]

Here are a few.of my babies.

 

[krazychknladi]

That was him almost two weeks ago here he is on my boyfriend do you want me to post a pic of him now? That pic is pretty recent but yes that's my little frizzle serama rooster

He is gorgeous. I have a smooth feathered serama that has the same coloring.

 

[danielley101215]

He is gorgeous. I have a smooth feathered serama that has the same coloring.

Aww thank you! I adore him! You should post a pic of yours? Id like to see!

 

[HUGHES555]

Lets see if i can remember them all. 11 silkies (4 of those are frizzles), 9 cochins, 2 old english game, 2 oeg/cochin mixes, 1 americana, 2 americana/cochin mixes, 1 polish and 3 buff black tails. Thats all the bantams we have right now. Here are a few of the pics I have with me.

 

[Cl2Abbeyrd]

Hiii Bantam friends! My husband and I are researching 3 bantam started pullets as a mini backyard flock. They are so cute and the perfect size for us!

Which bantams generally lay the most or largest eggs? And are the most likely to handle Wisconsin winter the best? Because that's what we'll likely get!

I was looking at bantam EE's, but not a ton of info on them, and seems hard to find ones that aren't little chickies.

 

[HUGHES555]

Hiii Bantam friends! My husband and I are researching 3 bantam started pullets as a mini backyard flock. They are so cute and the perfect size for us!

Which bantams generally lay the most or largest eggs? And are the most likely to handle Wisconsin winter the best? Because that's what we'll likely get!

I was looking at bantam EE's, but not a ton of info on them, and seems hard to find ones that aren't little chickies.

Cochins are a good bantams that do well in colder climates. From all the different bantam breeds I own they all lay about the same size eggs (small). But we get about 1 a day from our cochins. And they are very friendly, even our Cochin roos are friendly.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

All of my cochin bantam boys have been terrors! I haven't kept a single one.

I think a pretty bantam mini flock would be a Cochin, a Japanese, an Old English, and a Sebright or Rosecomb. My Sebright does lay my smallest eggs, though.

I love bantam EEs and want more. I got hatching eggs from Ebay last year and three of the four pullets that hatched died from egg yolk peritonitis. Needless to say I will find another source this time.

 

[HUGHES555]

All of my cochin bantam boys have been terrors! I haven't kept a single one.

Really all of mine have been great. I have 3 of them right now. They are good with the hens and great around people. Of course we hand raise all our roosters in the house until they are old enough to go out with the flock. I will not have a rooster that I haven't raised in the house and handled almost every day. both of my daughters can go out and pick up our roosters without any trouble.

 

[WVduckchick]

Hiii Bantam friends! My husband and I are researching 3 bantam started pullets as a mini backyard flock. They are so cute and the perfect size for us!

Which bantams generally lay the most or largest eggs? And are the most likely to handle Wisconsin winter the best? Because that's what we'll likely get!

I was looking at bantam EE's, but not a ton of info on them, and seems hard to find ones that aren't little chickies.

My bantam chocolate orpingtons lay the largest eggs of my bantams, followed by the bantam cochins. OEGBs and Seramas lay the smallest.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Really all of mine have been great. I have 3 of them right now. They are good with the hens and great around people. Of course we hand raise all our roosters in the house until they are old enough to go out with the flock. I will not have a rooster that I haven't raised in the house and handled almost every day. both of my daughters can go out and pick up our roosters without any trouble.

Ah I start integrating all my chicks by a few weeks old. I don't raise any in the house, but I do handle them. I've never had a mean rooster. The bantam cochins are always very aggressive serial rapists though. I'm sure it would get better with time.