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Bantam Chickens For Your Backyard
If you are looking to find some of spunkiest and most fun chickens to have as pets, you should definitely check out a bantam chicken. They may not lay eggs as big, so do not get all bantams if you are looking for great eggs, but they are cute, friendly and fun. Bantam chickens are basically miniature chickens, many breeds of large chickens will have a bantam chicken breed as well. These bantam breeds are often 1/5 to 1/4 the size of the larger breed, but they act just like the big ones.
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Chicken Bantam – Smallest and Most Fun Chicken?
Chickens come in a variety of sizes. The average sized chicken found in most breeds, the huge chicken that can probably feed a home for two days, and then there’s the small chicken bantam.
Bantams are naturally small. You can compare them to other small chickens in size, but these guys are special because they don’t come any bigger. Bantam chickens will only get as big as twenty-two ounces.
So what’s the big thing about these bantam chickens? They don’t make for very good meat providers, and even if they produce a lot of eggs, the eggs are… Continue reading
The Bantam breed of chicken
The Bantam variety of chicken is a small chicken and the name comes originally from the city of Bantam. Bantams are popular birds because they are small and come in a wide variety of colours. The Bantam can also be kept in smaller gardens, making them popular with the hobbyist or someone just starting out. Bantams are used for their eggs although their eggs are only about half the size of other breeds.
Bantams are known for their personalities and many describe them as having a more varied personality than other chickens. They also make fearsome mothers and are… Continue reading