I've been on a hatching spree this year as several neighbourhood dog attacks combined with newly resident foxes knocked me down from 20+ birds down to 4 in the space of a few months. I was never interested in breeding/hatching my phoenixes because they're SO tiny but, in the interest of numbers, I set their eggs anyway. So, first hatch I had set 3 golden phoenix eggs. Fathers were French black copper marans and black australorp. Those kids are now 13 weeks and all three are the size of my white phoenix. I was hoping the roo genes would add to their size, but didn't happen. And, in observing my youngsters from the following hatch in which I hatched a bunch of white phoenix crosses with the same very large roos, I've got the same story happening. Looks to me like increasing a bantam's size is gonna take several generations!
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