Bantam housing serve?

My father is buying a bunch (30 or so) of egg laying hens within the spring and he is letting me buy 5 Blacktail Buff japanese bantams. He is building the layers a huge barn and courtyard. He said I could put my chickens in beside his. The only problem is, I want my bantams to be for pets or show, I don't want them to mix within with the larger chickens and The company we are buying from solitary sell BTBJ's as straight run and I don't want any roosters to try and breed near the large hens he will buy. What sized barn and patio do 5 BTBJ bantams need and what adjectives should they have surrounded by there if they are pets, All my dad is putting within his is water trough and nurture pan, but specifically incredibly boring and I want my chickens to be like regular pet birds, so what can I put surrounded by there for them, resembling tires to climb on, etc. Any help, and any links to FREE blueprints for building a pen and house would be appreciated.
Answers: you dont have need of much - we built a small enclosure out of 2x2's and stucco cable (with extra chicken wire on the bottom)

we made 4 "panels" respectively panel was 8 ft long, 6 foot high-ceilinged with 2 braces (so that be four 6 ft long peices all together) after we put the stucco wire on respectively Panel (one panel was made to hold a "door" it in - also made of stucco rope and 2x2's but we set it in a frame of 2x4's...

anyhow consequently each panel be set up to make a square out of adjectives of them, an 8x 8 square...

then we made a house... freshly basically one they could jump in and we could conquer in to carry eggs we couldnt actually totter into... we had a covered place for the food... (so it wouldnt acquire wet from rain) and added some bigger branches and stuff for them to play on..

sorry I dont hold pics or blue prints - we just made it up as we go along.
Straight run of 5 chick, I am guess you will get three cocks and two, conceivably only one hens. That have been my luck from letters order straight runs. I dawdle till they 'tell me' they are roosters, to seperate them from others. I haven't have good luck next to bantams. I had several rodent attacks (weazel or possium, I don`t know groundhog) and one horrorable dog attack. My brave little silkie birds are the first to be killed. I own them in next to the bigger birds and they do fine.
I only hold one rooster at a time. Tried keeping two and they always fought. Males are pretty much dinner around here.
A few weeks past the fair or showing your pets, I would thieve them out of the population and put them in cage. So you can clean them up and control them down. Also, my silkie can not roost with others. They can't fly or fly that well.
Good Luck, enjoy fun

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