Will this plan work?

[donnap1967]

Hello!
I am waiting on an order of 6 bantam silkie eggs due to arrive after Memorial Day. It will be my second hatch ever and my first in the homemade incubator I made. I sure hope they hatch, I am so excited!!
I am hoping to keep some bantam silkies and I was considering ordering about 5 or 6 standard pullets from My Pet Chicken that would probably arrive sometime late June. I want to order 1 Australorp, 1 Golden laced Wyandotte, 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte, 1 Buff Laced Polish, 1 EE, and 1 Barred Rock.
I have a lot of the supplies already to build a coop that I got from Craigslist and I am planning to build a coop around 4x8 in size and a run which I am not sure of measurements for yet. I only have room in my yard for one coop.
Will I be able to keep standards and bantams together?? Will these chickens all get along ok?

 

[mmajw]

I do not own bantams but I have heard that they should be kept seperate.

 

[donnap1967]

I stopped at a roadside farm not far from me because I saw they had chickens out there in their little zoo area. I had never seen some of the chicken breeds I always read about in real life so I wanted to take a look.
I noticed they had bantams and standards all together and they seemed to get along fine. I know that might not always work but I was hoping if they all "grew up" together it might work out.

 

[Cetawin]

If they are raised together and about the same age, they will so fine together.

 

[bangor777]

When I was younger we raised bantams with standards and had no problem. I have both now and plan on housing them together once they're out of the brooder.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

my barn owner has both and they are all fine together. Both in coop and free ranging

 

[donnap1967]

Ok then.....order placed with My Pet Chicken! Wooot!

I have been procrastinating about it for weeks. This was all the little nudge I needed

Thank you!

 

[Sequin]

You needed a nudge?!

I better not even think what would happen if someone gave me a nudge. I would probably end up with 1001 chicks in a brooder the size of my garage.