Can a bantam hatch from a full size egg

[3 Chicks]

I have 2 chicks (about 16 weeks old) who appear to be bantams. However, I'm certain they hatched from full sized eggs. Is that possible?

 

[sourland]

If sired by a bantam rooster they may very well mature mid size between the bantam and the large fowl mother.

 

[chickens really]

What actually are you asking?...Definitely a Bantam egg can hold a cross...

 

[3 Chicks]

What actually are you asking?...Definitely a Bantam egg can hold a cross...

I'm asking if a bantam can come from a full sized egg. I know what I put under my broody hen. They were full-sized eggs. But the chicks that hatched are bantams. I'm asking how that can be.

 

[3 Chicks]

If sired by a bantam rooster they may very well mature mid size between the bantam and the large fowl mother.

That makes sense. So the full sized mother laid a regular egg which was holding a bantam-fertilized embryo.

The roo was a bantam. I'm not exactly sure who the mom was.

 

[chickens really]

I'm asking if a bantam can come from a full sized egg. I know what I put under my broody hen. They were full-sized eggs. But the chicks that hatched are bantams. I'm asking how that can be.

It can't be if you don't have Bantam?

 

[3 Chicks]

It can't be if you don't have Bantam?

I bought fertilized eggs from a friend. She has a bantam roo who obviously fertilized these eggs. I just thought that because they were hatched from a full sized egg, that meant they would be full sized chickens.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Agree with @sourland

 

[chickens really]

I bought fertilized eggs from a friend. She has a bantam roo who obviously fertilized these eggs. I just thought that because they were hatched from a full sized egg, that meant they would be full sized chickens.

I bought fertilized eggs from a friend. She has a bantam roo who obviously fertilized these eggs. I just thought that because they were hatched from a full sized egg, that meant they would be full sized chickens.

They definitely fill the egg but grow as Chicks to the cross they are.

 

[3 Chicks]

They definitely fill the egg but grow as Chicks to the cross they are.

Got it. Thanks for the reply.