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
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...
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.
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
