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Bantam X Large fowl??? HELP

Discussion in 'Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying' started by Brandon97, Jun 12, 2011.

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  1. Jun 12, 2011 #1
    Brandon97

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    hey its brandon
    I really need to know if you can cross a bantam cockerel with large fowl hens.
    Thanks in advance
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  3. Jun 12, 2011 #2
    Brandon97

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    Also, would the off spring be banty or LF?
    Thanks
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  5. Jun 12, 2011 #3
    Hangin Wit My Peeps

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    Well I had an active Serama roo mating my big hens (FUNNY let me tell ya!) And I tried to hatch out some of the eggs. I DID get one to hatch and it was so cute...A little bigger then a bantam. Then the neighbors dog killed her! [​IMG] It can be done but not sure what you would call it. Mediums maybe?? LOL [​IMG] Thats what my hen was...inbetween.
     
  7. Jun 12, 2011 #4
    Squishypuff

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    The hens may not find the little guy all that impressive... [​IMG]
     
  9. Jun 12, 2011 #5
    howfunkyisurchicken

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    I had a japanese banty who loved my big BO hens. The chicks they hatched were "in betweeners". Not bantys but not large fowl. I did have one teeney tiny hen but most were medium sized birds.
     
  11. Jun 12, 2011 #6
    Saltysteele

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    my sussex tries many times a day to "get" my banty, but her eggs are not fertile. I started incubating them, but they did nothing. the more i thought about it, though, i don't know what would happen - a half full sized chicken, half banty growing in a banty egg.

    regardless, despite many tries, my large fowl is not able to get my banty. HE finishes, but to no avail
     

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