Issues and Challenges
Bantams lay round 2 eggs per week. Their eggs are quite a bit smaller than a regular hen, which may make them an important possibility for somebody who doesn’t want plenty of eggs. They make an cute pickled egg.
Many breeds of bantams are infamous for the need to go broody, that’s, wish to sit on eggs to hatch out their very own chicks. The highest two being Silkies and Cochin bantams. They make fantastic moms.
In the whole lot there’s at all times a draw back. Bantams do require a bit further safety from predators. Whereas they’ll conceal in smaller areas when predators come round, they could even have a tougher time in seeing predators equivalent to with Silkies, their head poof, can prohibit their vary of imaginative and prescient. They’re additionally extra prone to sleep on the bottom of the coop which makes them the primary goal when a predator enters a coop at evening.