Why Bantams? I don't get it....

[FrizzlesRule]

Bantams are the most loveable and precious little animals in the world. Some of them remind me of cuddly stuffed animals except they are warm and breathing and of course they eat. Life wouldn't be worth living without bantams. I love those little guys. I have three Frizzle cochins, three Belgian D'Uccles, a Silkie, a Sizzle and two mixed breeds. The hens lay eggs and are the pest pets one could have.

Another great thing about bantams is you can take them with you. I love to go to the park and I usually take Spike in my back pack. He fits with room to move around in.

 

[gryeyes]

Even after a hen's egg laying has diminished or stopped, she'll still eat bugs. Bantams are just as good at eating bugs and can even get into places LF cannot.

 

[stormylady]

I'm not a banty person myself but I do have silkies and I like em, and they lay really well, way better than I expected anyway and their eggs are delish!! How ever I have been breeding them to my SF roo so I can get a larger more broody chicken. Hmmm

 

[Toothless Willie]

From my limited observations it seems bantams have a higher motabolism leading to a more energetic and inquisitive personality. Our big girls are far more sedate than the hordes of bantams I am forced to contend with. The population of bantams in our little backyard barnyard is growing at an alarmingly prodigous rate. Of the four coops we have built, the last sub-divided, three are full of bantams, cheerfully working to produce more bantams. Their accomplice in this being one georgiagail, who snatches them up and plops the eggs into incubators. First of those cages which appears in our bedroom and I am outta here. I think I need to seek professional help. Anyone got the number for chickens annoymous?

 

[chicmom]

I need that number too Willie! Those darned bantams are too cute for our own good.........I've got 19 bantam eggs in the incubator and truthfully, I hope I have a great hatch, and then truthfully, I hope only a couple hatch.......

Wrong time of year to hatch here in Ohio......I still can't believe I hit the bid button and won those eggs.....

 

[Kadjain]

The question is very 'dual purpose' minded. Pretty silly question to ask on a chicken obsessed forum. I love my bantams and standards even when they're not laying, my goats even when they're not in milk and my bulldogs even though I don't have any bulls for them to fight.

Good question.

 

[AuberyMirkwood]

When I lived at my parents I raised Full Sized chickens. I loved them, their eggs, going to the fair. Now I live in the city and I missed having chickens. With only 1/10 of an acre I decided to get only bantams. They fit my mini farm, they were extremely colorful, smaller size meant I could have more variety in the same space, and they are pets. If I was just out to have production animals I probably would have not gone for bantams, but since they are here mostly as company their small size was a plus.

AND My city would not allow FARM animals but I convinced them that since bantams were essentially useless they didn't count lol. Like comparing a farm dog to a lap dog. Same Species, totally different uses.

 

[simplysophie]

We have a banty hen, she is very sweet and lays an egg every day and has not taken a break for about a month now.

 

[Fawkes]

I don't have any chickens yet but when I get chickens I'll have all bantams. I just love them. They're so cute, sweet, eat less, and I prefer small chickens. I don't care about eggs, I don't like them so I feed my pets my duck's eggs and will do the same with my chicken's eggs when I get them. I have animals purely as pets.

 

[johnson215]

my little bantams lay all the time.. i have all types and sizes, but i prefer the larger laying hens... i only have a few bantams mostly because i like watching them; but you can't beat the big gals.....