Crossing a standard size hen with bantam Roo's?

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

I've been trying to do some research and I want to be sure of this prior to me attempted to hatch any of these eggs, I have a Bantam rooster mixed into my flock of standard and Bantam hens, my favorite standard hen has recently gone broody but I also have a lot of Bantam hens broody at the moment and I don't want to have too many bantams in my flock, will my hen hatch standard, bantom, or a mix of chicks? They're her eggs so they're pretty large and if you must know the breed the hen is a Rhode Island red and the roo is a banton coaching, any clues or experience with crossing sizing?

 

[HappyClucker7]

The babies should be kind of mid sized, somewhere between bantam and standard.
I assume you probably did this, but did you check to make sure that the eggs are fertile? I only ask because my bantam cochin has never been able to successfully mate with any of my standard breed hens, no matter how hard he tries.

 

[Ladybird CA]

X2 some bantam Cochin Roos are too fluffy to mate with hens their own size let alone twice their size

 

[NatJ]

Came here to research this question.
I have a young Buff O (standard) who has been the main squeeze for my bantam Cochin boys (also young - all hatched this spring). The hen is about a month younger than the Roos, and lays the most adorable little eggs. So consistently so that I was wondering if Bantam dads can cause hens to lay smaller eggs.

Pullets tend to lay small eggs when they first start, and over time they usually progress to laying larger eggs.

Living with a particular rooster will not change what size eggs a pullet or hen lays.

Well, anyway, she’s thinking really hard about brooding now, and has a whole clutch of adorable little eggs.

Considering the season (fall), and that those are small pullet eggs, I would just eat the eggs and break her broodiness. Then you could let her hatch a clutch in the spring, when the weather is getting nicer and she is laying larger eggs.

The best chance of a successful hatch would be in spring with normal-sized eggs from a pullet or hen who has been laying for a while. Small eggs can be hatched, pullet eggs can be hatched, broodies can hatch eggs and raise chicks in the fall and winter-- but all of these points make complications a bit more likely.

The usual advice is to not hatch the first eggs from a pullet, because her body is still working out the details of how to make an egg properly.

Also, a chick that grows inside a small egg will have to be a small chick. A chick that grows inside a bigger egg will be larger because it had more space to grow and more egg to grow from. Chicks from normal-sized eggs are usually healthier. So that is a reason to wait until a pullet is laying eggs that are a normal size for her breed, before hatching eggs from her.

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

The babies should be kind of mid sized, somewhere between bantam and standard.
I assume you probably did this, but did you check to make sure that the eggs are fertile? I only ask because my bantam cochin has never been able to successfully mate with any of my standard breed hens, no matter how hard he tries.

Yes and they all hatche

 

[Smileybans]

I have a frizzle rooster who is a mix of a light Brahma hen and a bantam Cochin rooster. He’s not bantam but also not as big as my standard size chickens. So probably a mid size rooster. He's just the right size where he can mate with both my bantams, silkies and Cochins, and standards though.

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

Dose size affect eggs much?

 

[nuthatched]

Does the size of the room affect the hens eggs? No, why would it?
The resulti.g hen chicks with lay smaller eggs than their mothers.

 

[Smileybans]

Dose size affect eggs much?

The size of the chick or the size the hen will lay? How big a chick will be depends on how big the egg was. As for size of the eggs a hen will lay I’m not sure. I think it depends on the size of the chicken. I have no hens that are a bantam standard cross to tell you for sure though. I only have a rooster that’s a mix from my bantam Cochin.

 

[NatJ]

Dose size affect eggs much?

The size of hen can affect what size eggs she lays. Bantams lay small eggs, larger chickens lay larger eggs, although extra-big hens do not always lay extra-big eggs. Chickens that are half bantam would probably lay medium sized eggs, but I don't know for sure.

The size of a hen is controlled by genes from her mother and her father, so a hen's parents both have some affect on the size eggs she lays.