A question about breeding bantam with large fowl...

[cupman]

I am considering getting a couple more roosters to look over my flock but wanted a little bit more information about breeding in case I ever wanted to incubate more chickens. First of all, will bantam roosters mate with large fowl hens? I saw a Craigslist ad that was getting rid of their rooster.. they said it was too small to get the job done with the big girls. My other question is what size will the offspring be if I mate a bantam rooster and a large fowl hen? Will it be somewhere in the middle of the road or what should I expect?

Thank you.

 

[nicalandia]

I am considering getting a couple more roosters to look over my flock but wanted a little bit more information about breeding in case I ever wanted to incubate more chickens. First of all, will bantam roosters mate with large fowl hens? I saw a Craigslist ad that was getting rid of their rooster.. they said it was too small to get the job done with the big girls. My other question is what size will the offspring be if I mate a bantam rooster and a large fowl hen? Will it be somewhere in the middle of the road or what should I expect?

Thank you.

I have seen bantam roos mate with normal sized hens, I expect this to be the norm unless the bantam is one those dove size breeds and the hen is a very large breed hen..

the size will be right in the middle.