Bantam Fowl to Standard Fowl.

[Teach97]

standard suffers at first...you have to find those that are the largest but still close to standard. If you try for perfection to standard as well as size...try thinking much much longer. It is easier to get close to standard and achieve the size then start breeding the size you want to get back to standard

 

[karabbitry]

With most animals it is easier to breed down than to breed up. This is the case in chickens as well.

 

[Tikka]

Interesting. I was trying to understand what a bantam is, and why there are bantams of so many breeds, whether it was a particular mutation or a cross between existing bantams and standard breeds. The question came up because someone in the chick area has a baby between a bantam father and a standard mother.