Which do you prefer: bantam or standard?

[Mahonri]

I like my standard fowl.

Big eggs, more meat....

 

[armdchicken]

i like both. Standard mainly because of the eggs...and bantams because they are calmer than the standard

 

[Nitrous]

our RIR miss red keeps a safety zone unless you have something ..edible or otherwise attractive in which case she turns from a cheeky little booger chicken into an acrobatic ninja theif..... needless to say we feel so lucky to have only one of her kind

Right! When you walk outside with any edible thing, in your hands you become a ROCKSTAR! There is cheering, jumping up and down and screaming "HELOOKEDATMEOHMIGODHELOOKEDATME!!!!!"

 

[quercus21]

I like the standard breeds for a couple of reasons. We have red tail and cooper hawks that make their appearance known. Seems like when the crows are gone, they are here. Our NHR roosters are equal if not larger then the hawks, so there hasn't been a problem with them. With large roosters you should have appropriate size hens. Their coops aren't heated, so I figure larger body mass more winter heat. We also like the size of the eggs. If need be, we could have a meal with one of them. We do raise cornish x for that purpose.

 

[CarolJ]

Standards for me. Someday I might want a bantam, but I really doubt that ever happens.

 

[Henny peeny]

I like both have had both but if you don't have much space a bantam is good as for eggs mine never had to lay to be with me I just like then as they are. but the standard I feel don't warm up to you as fast I have one now Half and half and she DEMAND I give her a pet she yells at me until I do. Then there was the rooster cornish he was very freindly I don't know if this is the breed of the conish (male) all of them are like this, My two bantams was friendly but not demanding then I had a blue Amreacauna but it was after we had operated on her the first time she would walk up to me and want to be cuddled I am not sure but maybe she was trying to thank me. I think it goes both ways ???

Rhayden

 

[swift4me]

At my farm, the only problem I have with the banties is that they range further from the house, so I'm always worried about the hawks. Right now I've got three of them, and 6 bigger birds, and they all stay prettty close due to the cold and weather. In the summer the banties just take off. The neighbors all have the same experience.

I've got one that I raised from an egg and I still have her mother. When the chick was young I brought them back to town on weekends as I didn't trust the waterer to stay clean after all the scratching. The mother and chick, (after coming here 5 or 6 times), are the most traveled chickens in southwestern France I'm sure.

I don't mind the small eggs, and I like eating the young roosters when I get them.

Definitely no problems with the bigger birds. The banties take care of themselves just fine.

Pete

 

[ChickLover98]

I wanted to only stick with large fowl bit I accidentally recieved a Bantam frizzled cochin. She is really sweet, but she's got some sass towards the other chooks. So I'm going to go with LF because they are the sweetest birds I have. They lay nice eggs which make us money to buy feed, etc, while the bantam doesnt really pay for its weight in food. I love Rosie and all, but I wouldn't purposely buy anothe rbantam unless it was a silkie pair, to make silkies and sizzles, with Rosie, to put her to some use other than being adorable.