I have a Bantam White Crested Black Hen for sale right now. I live in Midtown.
bantam hens
No. Regular sized roosters can mate with Bantam hens, and Bantam roosters can mate with regular sized hens. The resulting offspring will be a small to medium sized chicken.
About the size o a volleyball Sources: own them Added: Silkies come in both Bantam and Standard sizes. However, the Standard size itself isn't very big with Roosters averaging 4 pounds and hens averaging 3 pounds. The Bantam variety that is more common in the US and represented in the APA, lists Roosters at 36 oz and hens at 32 oz.
A term rooster is used for the male bird (the hen is a female bird) of certain species . There are chicken roosters and hens, pheasant roosters and hens, turkey roosters and hens etc. Ducks are drakes and hens. Geese are the "Goose and the Gander".
Well, hens are girls and roosters are boys...that cover it?
No, Bantam roosters do not take care of eggs, his job is to fertilize those eggs, guard the chickens from predators, and crow.
It is likely that the roosters are aggressive, too rough with the hens, or that there are not hens in ratio to the amount of roosters.
Hens
The amount of roosters needed for breeding hens is about one rooster per ten hens
Hens.
Yes they will.
No.