Whats your ideal coop for raising exhibition bantams?

[Celtic Hill]

Im planning to get back into chickens after a 10 year hiatus. In my teens and early adult years I just threw together what I could afford for my show birds. Now I have adult money to relive my teenage chicken raising dreams.

If you were going to do an affordable set up for 3 trios of bantams, what would that look like for you?

 

[Debbie292d]

Hi!

I wanted to do more silkie breeding than I could so last year we bought an Amish shed, 12'x20'. Hubby remodeled it into a four-plex.

Outside:


One of the inside:

 

[ella2025]

Hi!

I wanted to do more silkie breeding than I could so last year we bought an Amish shed, 12'x20'. Hubby remodeled it into a four-plex.

Outside:
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One of the inside:
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Beautiful coop and cute birds! I have never seen grass in a chicken run. How many silkies do you keep per section? When I first moved 10 or so chickens to my run (used to be 10 by 10 but now 20x10) they ruined all the grass in 2 days.

 

[Celtic Hill]

Hi!

I wanted to do more silkie breeding than I could so last year we bought an Amish shed, 12'x20'. Hubby remodeled it into a four-plex.

Outside:
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One of the inside:
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Are your pens 3x5? Are you happy with that size?

 

[LoveMyPeepers]

Hi! Thought I might join this thread. Someday I want to breed showbirds, don't have enough space right now though. I think I have a question you might be able to answer though.

This is my bantam, Falcon, who recently passed:

Her mom was a purebred white bantam Silkie and her dad was some kind of chestnut bantam frizzle. Both parents passed as well, but not falcons sister.
This is Happy feet:


Based on these two, do you think that their dad was a cochin frizzle? I read somewhere that a frizzle wasn't a breed but like deformed feathers or something?