Is it possible..... *Help Please!*

[Bec]

for a standard to successfully breed a bantam? Or the other was around? I am pretty sure on the answer to that, yes, BUT the real question would be...IF a smaller breed of chicken that lays smaller eggs was bred by a bigger breed, wouldn't the mixed breed chick be too big for the little egg instead of being in an egg that is bigger from it's own kind??

 

[debilorrah]

Good question!!!

 

[Bec]

I was wondering if the chick developing in the egg under my broody belongs to the roo of her kind or the BIG cochin roo...lol. Curiosity got me!

 

[sandypaws]

an egg is an egg.... the HEN decides on how big the egg is,, not the rooster... . once it HATCHES then the rooster genes make the chick grow big...or????

 

[Chickenaddict]

A bantam roo will mate with a standard hen, and vise versa. I don't reccomend letting a standard roo mate with a bantam tho because of the damage they can cause to the poor little bantam hens

 

[Bec]

Well mine aren't exactly bantams, They are about the size of a standard polish and may have been bred accidentally by my cochin.

Ok, so the baby will be as small as the egg will let it, then it will grow...got it.

 

[conny63malies]

If it helps i have a male doxie seen mating a female St Bernhard. If there is a will there is a way.

 

[Bec]

THAT would be interesting to see!!

 

[Marlinchaser]

Quote:
It was no accident, he ment to do it.

 

[Bec]

Oh, he sure did...