Bantams

[fenwoman]

Does anyone else here keep poultry? If so, what breeds?

 

[grahamsokel]

I dont keep anything fancy
I only have leghorns,dutch and Silkies then the large light sussex and i am looking for a trio of belgian

 

[RandomWiktor]

I have a big mixed bred hen - very pretty, black with a brown chest. I think she's a meat breed as she's large, heavily built, and usually only lays every other day (and seldom at all in the winter). She's actually a "house chicken" - sleeps indoors and comes in during bad wether or whenever she is feeling lonely, and spends the day out in our fenced in yard with the dog. She's 100% imprinted on me, and seems to get the snot beaten out of her by all other chickens, so she's become more of a little feathery dog than a bird, really.
I've had bantams, leghorns, etc. in the past - they're all lovely birds. Bantams are convenient if you just want pets since they make smaller messes and don't need as large of an enclosure. But for eggs, they're something of a waste; too small for baking, and you need a ton for eating.

 

[fenwoman]

I dont keep anything fancy
I only have leghorns,dutch and Silkies then the large light sussex and i am looking for a trio of belgian

Dutch is one of the breeds I specialise in. I have one of the largest collections of colours. What colours do you keep?
Which Belgians are you looking for? I have some lavender Barbu d'Anvers.
Here is one of my best winning cockerels in blue partridge.

I also have buff, blue and white leghorns.

 

[andi-marie]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE i an looking for a pair of silkie bantams i have looked everywere for them and carnt find any anywhere
please if any one has any and you are not too far away please can i get some
just female tho

 

[William]

Welcome to the forums andi-marie, I'm guessing you're hoping to hatch some eggs with the silkies. It might help if you said where your location was.


Although it's an old thread, I thought I'd chip in, I've had several chickens, mostly bantams, some of the quite ornamental pekin varieties. Quite into ducks at the moment, have some runner ducks, magpie ducks and silver appleyards. A friend of mine has some Shamos chickens, these chaps are extremely tall, and absolutely deadly mice hunters around his sheds!

 

[grahamsokel]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE i an looking for a pair of silkie bantams i have looked everywere for them and carnt find any anywhere
please if any one has any and you are not too far away please can i get some
just female tho

Welcome to the forum,
I take it your in Cumbria by your PM anyway i have replied

Incase you havent seen mine these are the chicks i have just hatched http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=186480

 

[_cRaCkEr_]

Nice .... I used to breed fighting cocks I had like almost 600 of them

 

[dulce]

my parents have a few chickens that are just pets, a silkie, one polish (she is my favourite), they recently lost their Aracuna (she layed blue eggs !) , they really are affectionate animals once they know you!

We also have a lake which our ducks are on we have runner ducks on eggs at the moment and some runner eggs under a chicken as she left them due to being bullied by the swans !!

 

[WildernessLofts]

Guess you missed my post on what I've raised. I've had tons of different chicken breeds.

Silkies, d'Uccles, Cochins, Ameraucanas, Games, OEGB, Lakenvelders, Faverolles, Polish, and Langshans to name a few.

 

[dulce]

oh sorry didnt see that one what breeds have you got now ? can u post some pics?

Polish are just the best she gets stuck in trees cause she wont jump into the stinging nettles ha ha and my dad and boyfriend can never find her as she only answers me and my mum ha ha ha

 

[WildernessLofts]

oh sorry didnt see that one what breeds have you got now ? can u post some pics?

Polish are just the best she gets stuck in trees cause she wont jump into the stinging nettles ha ha and my dad and boyfriend can never find her as she only answers me and my mum ha ha ha

I don't technically have anything since I had to give them all up when I moved, but my grandparents let me keep a few chickens at their house. I just have a few games and a pair of Ameraucana Bantams.

Here are some of last year's chicks. They were about...three months old in these pics?

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof...egcockerel1.jpg

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof...egcockerel2.jpg

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof.../oegpullet1.jpg

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof.../oegpullet2.jpg

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof.../oegpullet3.jpg

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof.../oegpullet4.jpg

http/shadowlakerabbits.com/wildernesslof.../oegpullet5.jpg

 

[dulce]

They are lovely colouring, i love that bluey grey on chickens !

what other breeds have a similar temperment to polish, our girl is so much more responsive than our other chickens?

 

[WildernessLofts]

They are lovely colouring, i love that bluey grey on chickens !

what other breeds have a similar temperment to polish, our girl is so much more responsive than our other chickens?

Polish are quite the oddity. The roosters can become pretty aggressive if they don't have those feathers over their eyes. One of my friends had a polish rooster in with some other chickens and he got picked on and didn't move around much. The guy cut the feathers off from around his eyes and he became the top rooster in the pen. No joke.

I think a lot of how a chicken acts depends on the bird, itself. I know a lot of bantam breeds are tame and responsive. My OEGB would fly up onto my shoulders. I had one cockerel that repeatedly used me as his crowing post.

 

[dulce]

HA HA .. my parents only have hens at home, no roosters as my sister hates the noise !

Just got an email from my mum (i am in argentina) and crows have eaten the runner duck eggs she is gutted.. think a visit to the farm near us is in order when i get home !

i guess bird to bird its like any animal but our polish is just never like a chicken we have ever had, she runs up to you to be picked up!!!