Size of Eggs?

[kathleenlowe]

Hello Everyone, I have been doing chicken for a little while but still do not know everything. So this time I decided to have small banny's polish chicken hens and roosters mixed with regular size hens and low and behold the eggs are coming banny size not regular size. So do I need to have a regular size Marion or road Island rooster? to get my egg size back up to what it use to be?? Thanks

 

[imnukensc]

Size of the rooster has nothing to do with the size of eggs. Don't need a rooster for eggs.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Hello Everyone, I have been doing chicken for a little while but still do not know everything. So this time I decided to have small banny's polish chicken hens and roosters mixed with regular size hens and low and behold the eggs are coming banny size not regular size. So do I need to have a regular size Marion or road Island rooster? to get my egg size back up to what it use to be?? Thanks

So you have hatched birds from the flock you've listed here and the resulting chicks are now laying eggs that are smaller than expected, is that correct? How old are the birds that are laying the eggs which are smaller than you expected?
Yes, introducing Bantam genetics into your laying birds can result in progeny who produce eggs smaller than your standard laying hens would produce.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Size of the rooster has nothing to do with the size of eggs. Don't need a rooster for eggs.

If one is breeding, yes the rooster very much has something to do with the egg quality size and frequency of any resulting female chicks that he produces.

 

[imnukensc]

If one is breeding, yes the rooster very much has something to do with the egg quality size and frequency of any resulting female chicks that he produces.

Agreed. I didn't read anything about breeding nor did the poster indicate anything about breeding from what i could discern from the post. A bantam rooster can breed a brahma hen, but it's not going to change the size of the egg she lays was my point.

 

[New2Chicks97]

Hello Everyone, I have been doing chicken for a little while but still do not know everything. So this time I decided to have small banny's polish chicken hens and roosters mixed with regular size hens and low and behold the eggs are coming banny size not regular size. So do I need to have a regular size Marion or road Island rooster? to get my egg size back up to what it use to be?? Thanks

The Banty Polish hens will lay Banty sized eggs. They are a small breed and will lay small eggs.

The full size breed hens if they are young may start put laying smaller eggs but those will likely get bigger as they get older and more regular in their laying.

If you aren’t happy with the smaller eggs then you probably don’t want Banty chickens.

All of my Easter Egger pullets started out laying smaller sized eggs and it too them a few weeks to build up to bigger eggs.

 

[WVduckchick]

Nothing wrong with small bantam eggs. They taste the same. Just need to adjust recipes and such, but otherwise they are just as good.

 

[New2Chicks97]

Nothing wrong with small bantam eggs. They taste the same. Just need to adjust recipes and such, but otherwise they are just as good.

I agree. And the wee little eggs are so cute! But I gathered from the OP post that they weren’t happy with the smaller eggs.

My daughter has a little Banty Silkie that is so tiny. When she lays an egg finally I bet it is the size of a nickel at most.

 

[WVduckchick]

Yes I guess we need clarification from @kathleenlowe what the goals are.

 

[kathleenlowe]

If one is breeding, yes the rooster very much has something to do with the egg quality size and frequency of any resulting female chicks that he produces.

Thank you.... that is what I was wondering might happen, I changed the roosters size because they damage the hens to much wanted to know because when I use smaller roosters for my regular size hens they eggs come out the size of my bannys. I have them mixed into the flock all grew up together. Darn might have to change back.