Crossing bantams with large fowl

[aseelpak]

crossing bantam with LF im really curious can any1 have any pictures??

 

[Phoenixxx]

I just acquired a bunch of phoenixes and was curious if they could breed with my red star (? Large brick and white roo with yellow legs, anyway) and my young australorp roos. Found this thread, glad it's possible! The phoenixes are WAY tinier than I expected (the full-grown ones are no bigger than a pidgeon!) so I want to try and get some bigger birds out of them. Has anyone else done this cross?

 

[QuoVadis]

The babies usually turn out in between, but closer to the mom's size, maybe because they hatch from her egg? When our male New Hampshire bred our D'uccle the baby turned out a little smaller than a leghorn, but bigger than most bantams. When the same D'uccle had a baby with a a rooster that was half LF, half banty, the baby was basically a bantam size. We also had a Sebright hen who must have mated with our a LF/Polish cross, and those babies turned out a little smaller than the standard Polish.

 

[tobit]

Has anyone ever crossed a pekin/cochin bantam cokerel with a black copper maran hen or a barred plymouth rock hen?

 

[MsRiderUp]

Just curious: Do bantams, or bantam cross hens always lay smaller eggs? I had two Norwegian Jaerhorn bantams that I sold. They laid smaller eggs, but I wasn't sure if this was the rule.

 

[aart]

Brought this thread up while looking for an answer to a question on another thread.

If a LF roo fertilizes a bantam hens egg, can those eggs be hatched successfully and will any resulting pullets lay an egg too big for their smaller physique?

 

[Phoenixxx]

Brought this thread up while looking for an answer to a question on another thread.

If a LF roo fertilizes a bantam hens egg, can those eggs be hatched successfully and will any resulting pullets lay an egg too big for their smaller physique?

My bantam white phoenix was fertilized by both a bcm and a ba, both roos are VERY big. All her eggs hatched no problem. The chicks are smaller than the chicks from LF moms. The oldest ones are only 9 weeks so I can't yet answer the second half of your question

 

[Pinkaboo]

Has anyone ever crossed a pekin/cochin bantam cokerel with a black copper maran hen or a barred plymouth rock hen?

My cuckoo maran cockerel has been mating with my chocolate pekin hen
Too scared to incubate the eggs incase it would cause health defects
Plus maran is only four months old so prob not very fertile

 

[tobit]

Thanks, I've since acquired pekin bantam hens so now I have an aqual match but thanks

 

[SammyRouen]

I have a small but mighty BO bantam roo who has been breeding with my red sex link. Now red sex link are already pretty small so I'm hoping to set a few eggs and see how the cross will turn out. Hopefully small-ish!