Our Bantam Chicken Flock

By Lloyd Kahn on February 8, 2013

Golden Seabright and two Silver Seabright bantams, our little beauties. Getting about a dozen eggs a day now. Both bantam chickens and their eggs are about half-size of full size chickens.

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

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8 Responses to Our Bantam Chicken Flock

  1. gary green says:
    February 8, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    llody, love your chickens.i like the sounds they make when they are happy. i like hang out with them.your fan gary

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  2. Anonymous says:
    February 9, 2013 at 4:09 am

    These ARE Beauties. Myself, i could see me spending time just watching them. We have a good bunch of wild birds visit our back yard, including pheasant, and it is sould satisfying to watch…

    I'm thinking eventually these ones will make it to the oven? Such beautiful feathers, maybe you could sell them. Read something where someone was raising chickens with beautiful feathers, just to slaughter and sell for the feathers.

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  3. Richard says:
    February 9, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    Beautiful birds, Lloyd. We keep bantams in our back garden (Leicsester UK), and while they may not be the 'friendliest' of birds, there really is something unique about their size and personality. We have also hatched birds and had them imprint upon our children who they then follow around everywhere, one insisting on sitting on my daughter's shoulder while she watches TV. And while the eggs might be small, they are like golden treasures. Well done and thanks for your amazing blog – we love it. Richard

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  5. Anonymous says:
    May 26, 2013 at 4:55 am

    well, as it happens, i dont use the "stuff", but i suspect some of your readers may take advantage of a green thumb to source organic "stuff"…

    for those wondering what to do with the bits leftover, science now has an answer…—- raise a few Chickens / Pigs / Ducks…

    apparently the critters flourish – happily…

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/20/us-usa-marijuana-pigs-idUSBRE94J0PL20130520

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  6. Anonymous says:
    June 4, 2013 at 3:10 pm

    hi Lloyd, ran accross this on raising backyard quail. thought it might interst..

    http://wakeup-world.com/2013/04/05/city-farming-with-backyard-quail-an-alternative-to-raising-chickens/

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  7. Anonymous says:
    April 1, 2014 at 12:00 am

    Your chicken's are beauties, Lloyd. Am sure they would come out in top in a beauty pagent…grin…

    However, have to admit, this is the first time I have heard of

    The Curious World of Chicken Beauty Pageants

    http://twistedsifter.com/2014/03/the-curious-world-of-chicken-beauty-pageants/

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  8. Anonymous says:
    July 25, 2015 at 3:24 am

    Lloyd,
    here's a giveway, to add to your flock/coop

    http://www.motherearthnews.com/chicken-starter-kit-2015.aspx

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