It'd be fun to get Marshall

[897tgigvib]

That's right! Bantams!

Heck, with bantams I'd only need to make a 5 foot long by five feet wide, by 6 feet high concrete enclosure! I could get me a purebred silkie chicken and get her bred with a bantam rooster and come up with miniature silkies! Do the same with an easter egger chicken, and can't remember the breed that lays those darkest brown eggs; do that with them too! Then cross those up and do some selecting...

Shoot, I'll come up with new breeds in just a few years!!! Then I can get the cat fancy associations to approve the new chicken breeds as playmates for British Shorthairs!

Come to think of it, I might need me 2 concrete chicken coops, maybe three! They'd be nice n cool in summer and easy enough to heat in winter, especially since one of my mad scientist projects is inventing the HED, similar to the LED lights but that emit heat instead, very effective per watt. Once I get those HED's invented it'll be easy to heat it with solar power!

Ha! Look what I come into the cabin for late lunch to see! I love it here!

 

[MontyJ]

Come on Marshall! You can do it. Just buy that first chicken.

 

[digitS']

Don't worry too much about heat.

Those chickens come with down jackets. To stay cool, about all they need is shade.

Easiest livestock for care in the world. About the only things that require less time and expense - rabbits. Yeah, we need to get you lined up on rabbits. And, what with growing alfalfa for the rabbits - Holsteins!

digitS'

 

[MontyJ]

I have to disagree, Steve. Pigs are much easier than chickens. All you need is a good fence, a good ringer, food, water, and a place for them to get out of the rain. They are also much smarter. So, if Marshall's going to add rabbits and bovine to the mix, he might as well get a couple Yorkshires or Durocs.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

yeah, but the chickens produce their eggs longer than the pig can give you their bacon, ham, chops, etc!

 

[MontyJ]

I agree Chickie, but if Marshalls going to have chickens, he might as well have bacon too

 

[seedcorn]

Marshall, silkies are bantams. Some bantams-games- can fly like bird. I have Wyandotte bantams, they will only fly if induced. Cochins would just as soon die as do anything as energy demanding as fly.

Most breeds can be found in standard or bantam. Bantam eggs have as large of a yolk as standard eggs, just less whites. Dutch, ame may be some smaller but % wise not as much as you would expect from visual.

I like my bantams but they are somewhat useless. Really make me mad when they try to beat me to first tomato......

 

[so lucky]

I notice Marshall hasn't joined in this playful discussion........
C'mon, Marshall, aren't we tempting you at all?

 

[897tgigvib]

That's me hiding behind the bigfoot kid in post 11.

Some 32 ounce bantams seem cool! First I have to make the concrete bear proof bunkers for them though.

I checked, and SeedCorn is right. CackleHatchery has Silkies listed as Bantams.

Is there a way to get Parakeet sized chickens?

 

[so lucky]

That's me hiding behind the bigfoot kid in post 11.

Some 32 ounce bantams seem cool! First I have to make the concrete bear proof bunkers for them though.

I checked, and SeedCorn is right. CackleHatchery has Silkies listed as Bantams.

Is there a way to get Parakeet sized chickens?

Oops, sorry Marshall. I didn't see your post!
But, hey, a concrete bunker wouldn't be a bad thing to have.