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    Road testing bantam chooks

    Feb 28, 2022 3 minutes

    WHY BANTAMS?

    There are many reasons you may want to consider keeping a bantam chicken over a larger chicken breed, besides the adorable factor.

    • Lack of space is top of the list. With the ever-expanding urban landscape, people’s backyards are getting smaller and smaller. The thought of fitting four to six large Australorps on a 500 square metre block may mean a loss of gardens, utility and entertaining areas, playgrounds and so forth. Instead, you could easily fit six+ Pekins for example on

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