"Rosalie - you must post some photos on the progress of your chickens. I have all Bantams in my flock of 9, different breeds and all different characters.  Not too prolific with the egg laying - especially at present as they are all moulting as…"

"Bantam I think means "small".  We just got 6 Rhode Island Reds and they are just now 5 or 6 weeks old now.   "

"I'd like to try a lettace garden again this year, but I never have any luck.  Zone 6 south west Missouri has the wackiest weather.  There's either a late freeze that kills everything, or an early heat wave makes it bolt. …"

"Hi, newbie here.  Looking for luffa and any dry gourd types."

"Kimberly, I've never heard of Serama chickens!  They sound adorable!!!  Does your friend live in IL too?"

"I loved my silkies bantams. they were so gentle and soft.  Good with the kids as well!"

"I currently have 9 chickens comprising 5 silkies, that are actually not really bantams as such, just a true small breed. However my others are 3 bantam cochins (or Pekins as they are known here) and 1 Polish Bantam. I love having small chickens as…"

"I believe there are some that are standards breed down in size...as you can get the green egg layers as well as silkies, cochins.... my mille is a true bantam and has no standard size. there are several colors check out the silver sebright so…"

"Here is elie my mille fleur next to my orpington go to www.cacklehatchury.com they have a whole section of bantams, There is another member here who has this breed in a cage in the house and is very happy with them my sister keeps mostly…"

"Pretty much what Kimberly said: Bantams are the smallest kinds of chickens you can get, and there are many many different breeds of bantams, with more being developed all the time.  In fact I would say there are far more kinds of bantams than…"

"Different breeds can come in different sizes.  The sizes are Bantam, Standard, and Giant.   The giant ones can be MASSIVE.  A lot of bantams are easier to handle as "lap chickens" because of their size, and tend to have…"

"Hi I have a trunk in my yard which I call my habitat tree. It has many bird houses on it, a vine growing up it, the woodpeckers love it and its quite an eye catcher. It was a Douglas fir that lost it's top in a wind storm, I had it cut to…"

"You could plant a vine of some kind to grow up it in the spring and summer and have the trunk for Halloween."