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Old 10-17-2009, 02:55 PM  
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Chicken Question

We just got two Golden Seabright Chickens(Bantams) two weeks ago. They have a nice pen and I am wanting to put in with them my standard hen chicken. The seabrights are a rooster and a hen. I would like to have all the chickens together but do you all think my large standard Hen would pick on my small Bantam chickens? I am pretty new to chickens so don't know how all this works Thanks!
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Old 10-17-2009, 09:19 PM  
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im not a chicken expert, but i do know those bantys are mean as heck. for as small as they are. id prob be worried about them picking on your big hens.
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Old 10-17-2009, 09:26 PM  
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im not a chicken expert, but i do know those bantys are mean as heck. for as small as they are. id prob be worried about them picking on your big hens.
Yeah, I'll look out the window here & see my 150lb Great Dane pup running to the house with his tail between his legs, looking frantically over his shoulder only to see this little bitty bantam on his butt!

We kept our chickens & ducks together & they got along just fine. The adults anyway...the ducks would kill the chicks for some reason. I think your guys should be okay together. Do it at a time when you can watch them so you'll know for sure though.
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Old 10-18-2009, 08:46 AM  
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I'm worried for your rooster. Seabrights are a very small bantam weighing a pound or less and a standard hen can weigh 5 pounds or more. He could wear himself out trying to woo the larger hen.

All depends on the size of the pen and temperament of the birds. Some large breed chickens have reputations like the rhode island red and rock breeds.
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Old 10-18-2009, 02:52 PM  
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Well here are a couple pics of the Seabrights we have. For now I am keeping my other hen separate. I may just "find her a new home" like I did the roosters before winter anyway. We will see. Oh and one picture of the ducks we got yesterday for good measure. Now with the chicken pictures what do you all think. Is the one a rooster and the other a hen or is one a younger rooster than the other? The one is obviously a rooster but I can't decide on the other. They were caged together at the auction so I would think a hen but I don't know!





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Old 10-18-2009, 10:11 PM  
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They are a pretty pair. One rooster and one hen. If she were a he she'd have bigger wattles under her beak. Just one of the cues I use to tell them apart.

Her eggs are edible but oh so tiny. I call them the dieters special.

Love the ducks.
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We have 50 birds, a mix of bantams, full size, and a pair of Pekin ducks thrown intp the mix, and they all get along just groovy. As long as they have room to move and get away from each other, they're fine in our experience.

But yes, as someone else alluded to, our hens don't give the bantam roos any respect
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Old 10-19-2009, 08:19 AM  
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I thought she was a hen but I really wasn't sure! Not too shabby for $1 a piece at the auction. And only $1.75 each on my ducks. I won't be hitting any chick days any time soon for those kind of prices at the auction.
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