Selective breeding to create bantams?

[redchicken]

If you hatch only the smallest eggs laid by your chickens will you be able to decrease the size of the breed?

 

[Habibs Hens]

i think it would be better to selectively breed the smallest hens and roos to each other

and those offspring the smallest of them

ans so on and so forth

i don't think egg size matters

but as the hens get smaller in size the eggs will decrease in size naturally

 

[redchicken]

Okay thank you that would be second choice ha.

 

[cubakid]

Selecting the smallest hens should be first choice. Chicks contain genetic material that allow them to grow to a certain size. The egg shell does not affect all that much, except how small of eggs your birds will lay.

 

[Henk69]

selecting the smallest roo is even more effective. But still you need a lot of time and hope that you are not just selecting runts.