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How many bantams in an eglu?

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As most people say two (three at most) chickens in an Eglu with the normal run, I'd say three (four at most) bantams. The more room and less crowded they are, the better all round.

 

What bantams are you thinking of? Yep, I'm a bantam fan!!

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well omlet suggest five bantams in an eglu.

 

we had two hybrids and three bantams in ours, all were healthy and happy and at night, when we peeped in, they were all snuggled up leaving loads of space inside.

 

ours free range when we're about, but are quite happy to trundle back into their run. I would suggest that if you get home from work after sunset (especially in winter) that you leave them plenty of greens to munch on :D

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Until last Sunday we had three bantams in our eglu but due to Mr Tod we currently only have two. About a month ago, when two of them were broody, every time the third wanted to lay we'd often find all three of them snuggled up together in the nest. Like Tara, ours are free range in a mini-orchard of roughly 750 square feet so I'm hoping to replace poor Geraldine with two or three thereby bringing our total to four or five. At a guestimate I'd say five or six would be about the maximum.

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There's plenty of room in the Eglu itself for lots of bantams and yes, they do love snuggling up together. But if you're out at work during the day and they are shut in the run until you get home, I'd really would stop at four. There's a much higher risk of bullying, parasites, stress etc etc if they don't have enough room during the day.

 

If they could free range all day, I'd change my opinion and say eight!!

 

Have you made your mind up on what breeds you're getting?

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Go for it - they are super friendly and have wonderful personalities. Mine do go broody though once or twice a year. I haven't a clue how old they are as I adopted them.

 

At least three years old maybe more.

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I have just been looking at all of mine, and I reckon that the way they pile on top of each other you could get about 48 :lol::lol: and tuck a few more around the edges.

 

Every time I read this title it makes me visualise those stunts they used to have years ago in the 60's.................

 

How many people can you get in a telephone box, how many people can you fit in a mini, that sort of thing :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

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we had two hybrids and three bantams in ours, all were healthy and happy and at night, when we peeped in, they were all snuggled up leaving loads of space inside.

 

Tara, can I ask how your hybrids & bantams got on together? I had heard that it could be difficult keeping flocks of different sizes.

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Well i have 5 big girls, ( used to have 6 till poor penny died, ) but anyway, and i have two blue pekins ( the twins) , and i will say they get on great together, the only prob i do have occasionally is when i put their porridge in, the big girls tend to try and keep the twins out of the way, so i just put in a seperate bowl for them and that has seemed to have cured the problem.

 

The twins seem to just avoid the big girls and stick together, x

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