True or false, size matters...

[ManOverBoard]

I've been told by a neighbor with a bantam rooster that he's just too small to mate with average size breeds. He can only fertilize bantam hens or other small breed hens
And If this is true, are bantam eggs smaller than say a brahma's eggs?

 

[The Moonshiner]

are bantam eggs smaller than say a brahma's eggs?

For that bantam hens sake I sure hope so.
But yes.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

The only reason a bantam couldn't fertilize a full sized hen would be because he couldn't get in the right position to reach her. It is totally possible though and it does happen

 

[HobbyHoarder]

Size certainly never stopped my bantam cochin from trying, he certainly um... made it into position so to speak, but I don't honestly know if he ever succeeded with fertilizing our normal size hens as we never let any of them sit on any clutches nor did we ever try to incubate anything.

 

[ManOverBoard]

Thank you!
She recently gave hatching eggs to another neighbor whom I've been helping with her first broody hen, and the chick that hatched looked like an average size chick, and the eggs looked like large eggs. So when she insisted her handsome little fella could only mate with the little ladies I was confounded.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Thank you!
She recently gave hatching eggs to another neighbor whom I've been helping with her first broody hen, and the chick that hatched looked like an average size chick, and the eggs looked like large eggs. So when she insisted her handsome little fella could only mate with the little ladies I was confounded.

More often then not they do just fine with the big girls.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thank you!
She recently gave hatching eggs to another neighbor whom I've been helping with her first broody hen, and the chick that hatched looked like an average size chick, and the eggs looked like large eggs. So when she insisted her handsome little fella could only mate with the little ladies I was confounded.

The size of the rooster will not affect the size of the eggs. Large Fowl (LF) hens will lay large eggs regardless of who or what breeds them. The chicks that hatch out of those eggs could be LF-bantam hybrids, if the bantam rooster fertilized those eggs. And those hybrids, when they mature, could lay small, bantam-sized eggs or, more likely, midsized eggs.

If I'm wrong, somebody jump in here and correct me.