Bantam rooster normal hens

[ChickenSal]

I want to try my hand at incubating some eggs and a co-worker has some chickens (Australorps I think) and a bantam rooster. He doesn't think the eggs are fertile because the rooster is so much smaller than the hens but I thought it might be fun to give it a try. This will be my very first attempt to hatch chicken eggs, so free eggs to try it out on sounds good. Do you think there is a chance that they could be fertile? If I successfully hatch some babies will they most likely be bantams, normal size, or somewhere in between?
Thanks for any in put!

 

[Ridgerunner]

This thread shows what a fertile egg looks like when you crack it. If one is fertile, the others could be.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008

Many bantam roosters successfully mate with full sized hens. It is possible.

I have not hatched bantam/full-sized crosses, and I do not know which, if any, is dominant. I hope someone else who actually knows will chime in. Just for curiosity's sake, I'd like to learn.

 

[The Wolf Queen]

Yep I have a few standard hens and 2 banty roosters (I do not own any standard roos yet) and I just recently had an egg from them hatch (it didnt make it

but it hatched

)

 

[jakmallex]

It's definitely possible. I have a chicken that had a full size Australorp mother and a bantam black frizzle father. The chicken I have is bantam size, her sister was a lot bigger than her, but not quite standard (but not quite bantam either). She hatched chicks last year, some where very small bantams like her, others were the mid-size not quite standard or bantam size. She was bred to a bantam rooster.

 

[cristy17]

Trust me -- where there's a will, there's a way. My banty roos will mount any one of my standards hens. I would love to hatch out some eggs just to see what they would look like.