can a bantam rooster "mate?

[pringle]

Hi, I recently bought a very healthy, old english game bantam form a person I know and im going to get 8 chicks soon.My questions are if that little rooster can mate with a big austrolorp and lakenvelder hens im also getting some other bantams for him to and my second question is when are the hens ready to get mated and go broody.thx

 

[cariboujaguar]

Yes bantams can often mate with standard hens (I just learned his myself) I think any healthy determined roo will find a way...

I have some 11 mo old hens who went broody, I think they lay at 4-7 mo depending on the breed, but I'm just learning here too...

 

[flip9109]

I tiny have a serama roo who only likes big silkies, I don't know how he gets it done, but i have little serama silkie babys. hens start to lay around 20weeks old. my 2 OEG's go broody more than they lay in fact they are right now. when they go broody I can break them the only way I get them to stop is by letting them hatch something.

 

[pringle]

Thanks so much for the replies,now I wonder what a bantam old english game crossed with a lakenvelder would look like,well theres only one way to find out

 

[EweSheep]

Yep they do find a way LOL!

 

[chickens3]

Yes they can.