Chicks from banty hen plus standard roo

[Mrs. Mucket]

I think my tiny dark brahma banty hen got in with the 15# rooster somehow...her eggs look very fertile! (I know--ouch! I hope he straddled her without stepping on her!) I'm tempted to add some of her eggs to an incubator batch of intentionally fertile eggs next week. Has anyone hatched heavy standard X banty crosses?

 

[KirkKoop]

I asked the same question in an earlier post. I have 2 fertile and growing banty eggs (incubated by a broody standard WLH - on day 14). I don't think my banty roo ever got around to actually fertilizing her so that only leaves the RIR roo which I had seen pinning her down on various occasions. Should be interesting to see the hatch!

 

[InsaneBreeder]

I hatched out two chicks that were a cross between my ISA brown/BR standard rooster, and my bantam cochin hen. They are both bantam-sized, and have a bit of feather shafts on the legs.

 

[Mrs. Mucket]

InsaneBreeder, do you have any pics? I have a banty cochin, too. But as far as I know she has not been to visit the rooster.

Chicken genetics is fascinating to me...will an embryo always be the right size for its mother's egg, or is it likely a cross like this might get too big for the egg? Would a standard hen X banty roo be likely to have a bigger chick than a banty hen X standard roo?

 

[InsaneBreeder]

Mrs. Mucket :

InsaneBreeder, do you have any pics? I have a banty cochin, too. But as far as I know she has not been to visit the rooster.

Chicken genetics is fascinating to me...will an embryo always be the right size for its mother's egg, or is it likely a cross like this might get too big for the egg? Would a standard hen X banty roo be likely to have a bigger chick than a banty hen X standard roo?

I'm going to eat lunch, and then I'll take some pictures, if you like (but I recently sold one of the two and can't take a recent picture of him). I've read that crossing standards with bantams will produce offspring bigger than the bantam but smaller than the standard -- so a medium sized chicken. So then, I would imagine that a medium-sized embryo in a bantam egg would have less room, whereas a medium-sized embryo in a standard egg would have more room.​

 

[GAchick]

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I'm going to eat lunch, and then I'll take some pictures, if you like (but I recently sold one of the two and can't take a recent picture of him). I've read that crossing standards with bantams will produce offspring bigger than the bantam but smaller than the standard -- so a medium sized chicken. So then, I would imagine that a medium-sized embryo in a bantam egg would have less room, whereas a medium-sized embryo in a standard egg would have more room.

So if my silkie roo really is doing his job with my LF girls, the embryos should have plenty of room in the large eggs. My only roo, right now..

 

[sourland]

The egg provides the constraint for the size of the chick. Generally bantam/standard fowl X's grow to be mid sized chickens.

 

[KirkKoop]

Here is a pic of my two expectant parents...

 

[kmsek]

Realllllllly!!!!!!

 

[Louise's Country Closet]

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How did he not squash her? LOL