Im hoping this is right spot question about standard size laying eggs

[Bock_Bock]

so what i was wondering if you have a standard size hen who mates with a bantam rooster, is it possible for the hen to lay an egg with a bantam size chick in it, after so long i wondered this, i dont know why considering i have a bantam hen now that from the batch i hatched was all standard size eggs so i was wondering, do this chicks hatch out standars size and just dont grow as fast or much as standard thus morphing to a bantam size or do the chicks just not take up all the room in the egg and hatch out smaller then standard?

 

[jenjscott]

good question. I know I have had a large fowl cross with a bantam hen, who laid a regular bantam egg. The hen hatched the same size as the bantams and grew faster. I think that a small chick might have trouble with excess fluid, so my guess would be like you said, that it hatches normal size, but just doesn't grow as much.

 

[Bock_Bock]

so your hen hatched as a bantam but grew faster and ended as a bantam or was closer to being the size of a standard?

 

[jenjscott]

She grew up midsize. This was a big Marans roo and a little BTW Japanese hen. They all hatched about the same size, but she quickly outgrew them. Here she is, the barred pullet, with her sister from the same hatch, a BTW Japanese.

 

[Bock_Bock]

thats a perfect shot nice looking too