Bantam Rooster + Regular sized Hen= ?????

[Terri O]

Well, I have several banty roos and they do get the job done! I call the resulting birds "my 3/4 size chickens." Their eggs are not appreciably smaller than their LF sisters. Once you introduce the smaller size into the flock it is hard to get it out though. T

 

[lbrown]

Yes, and the eggs those hens lay will most likely be smaller.

Does this work in the opposite? I have a beautiful huge rooster, (unknown breed(s) mix, but suspect some Jersey Giant in there somewhere, and RIR, DomInique, B Australorp, and B Orpington hens). Will the off springs of these cross breeds lay larger eggs, than the parent hen?

Lou in Florida

 

[gramma22]

Will a bantam rooster affect the size of the eggs laid by a normal sized hen? Will the eggs be smaller?

I've heard that the only thing that would happen but I incubated eggs and have 2 chicks with the bantum feet not sure about size at this stage and more white than rooster has hope these two are hens the rooster is nasty mean good thing he's little