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Start a new thread in the section "What Breed or Gender is this," with clear photos of each bird. Try to have at least one good photo showing the comb & wattles, and one showing the body. You will get several opinions. If everyone agrees, they are probably all correct. If some people say male...

As regards the wing feather sexing, many internet pages forget to tell the most important fact: it does not work on most chickens. It only works when someone crosses a rooster with the gene for fast feathering and a hen with the gene for slow feathering. When a cockerel is first learning to...

How old are they? I think all 3 might be males, although I'm not certain.

Yes, bantams are just like other sizes of chickens in that respect. They may start laying at an early or late age, but it is within the range of ages that other chickens also start laying. Comb & wattles do turn red just the same as they do in big chickens (with the obvious modifications for...

2 eggs a week when laying, and no eggs the rest of the time? Golly, that probably makes a whole-year average of less than one egg per week! I've had several kinds of bantams, including Cornish bantams, and I had mostly seen the pattern of heavy laying alternating with no laying. I had not seen...

I have no experience with bantams specifically from Meyer, so I cannot tell for sure. I do notice that those bantams are listed as laying more eggs than some other bantams on their site, so it may be true that they are better layers. Maybe Meyer has been doing some strong selective breeding with...

I only had answers to some of them. Hopefully someone else can help with the other ones. Most bantams are poor layers. They keep taking time off to go broody. So if you have chickens for eggs, they probably give you less eggs for the amount of chicken feed you have to buy. (It is not that...