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Help !! I have two lovely, very docile Silver Sussexs but i would love two bantams Could i add them to my existing flock or would they get bullied too much ???

please help me

Thanks

my neighbour has loads of chickens and bantams all mixed in together ~ they've worked out their own pecking order (I think the bantams are at the top)

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Thanks but do you know what sort of chickens they have??

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I've got bantams and large fowl chickens together, they get on very well (until there are treats about, then the pecking order has to be re-established!). I would advise you to stay clear of very small bantams like the dutch bantams, and polish bantams which have big headgear and this means they can't always see clearly to stay out of trouble. You could even get bantam equivalents of most colours of sussex. Wyandotte banties are lovely too. Bantam versions of light weight chickens like leghorns and welsummers tend to be quite flighty so be aware that they could fly over the sides of the run if it's not enclosed. Pekins are worth a look-in too, very friendly, but do have feathery legs (not good if the ground gets muddy) - oh, and they can brood for Britain, which is great if you want to raise some chicks, but not so handy if you want them to be laying eggs for your breakfast instead of sitting tight!

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Ye I've heard of Pekins they're really sweet, apparently they don't fly at all?

Thanks so much just got persuade my mum and dad to let me have two more

You could argue that as they are only small, they wouldn't take up much more space than a bigger hen!!!
When I had a bantam last year in with my flock of hybrids, she definitely ran the show.

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Yes bantams do fly, especially if they are trying to get away from a predator and sometimes take to the air just for fun.

My Pekins both fly - one of them over a 4 foot fence once, much to her (and our) surprise.

we had a banty, she ruled the roost (forgive the pun) and took no flack from any of the others despite the fact that she was only half the height on our biggest girl, Dolly...

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