Bantam chickens are a smaller variety of standard chicken, about a quarter of their size. Most pure breeds are available in quarter-sized versions displaying most of the same characteristics, so ...

Bantam chickens weigh 25 to 30% of what standard chickens do. ... If your child is planning to exhibit your chickens for 4-H or in a county fair, check the rules before you buy chickens.

If you want to mix bantams and larger varieties, either raise them altogether from chicks or make sure the ratio is at least 50:50 small birds to big. You can, of course, just keep a flock of bantams.

Smallholder Sally Coulthard shares why Bantams are the perfect chicken breed to own, as they don’t need as much space, eat less feed, don’t mind being handled and make great mothers.