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.
Yes, it can be done but the bantam rooster may have trouble mounting the standard hen. Bantam roosters are gregarious and often present themselves as the "boss" bird. Many standard hens will assume the mating position close to the ground thus enabling the bantam rooster to mount the saddle area on the back of the hen. From this position the rooster must be large enough to touch cloaca to cloaca in order to deliver the sperm packet.
Chickens are not bound by human moral issues. It is wise to freshen the gene pool every few years by replacing the rooster to ensure healthy offspring. Yes, allow the rooster to mate with his flock.
Yes, one rooster is plenty for that many hens as the rooster does not need to mate with each hen daily for the hen to lay fertilized eggs. One mating will suffice for as long as 10 days. Roosters deposit a sperm packet into the hen which attaches into the hens oviduct near the ovaries and releases sperm as needed.
Eggs are fertilized inside the hen by the rooster. Hens will lay eggs whether they are fertilized or not.
Yes Hens and roosters mate to fertilize the eggs the hen produces
mine do! my top rooster who owns the yard is a bantam and almost all of his hens are regular size.
Yes, it can be done but the bantam rooster may have trouble mounting the standard hen. Bantam roosters are gregarious and often present themselves as the "boss" bird. Many standard hens will assume the mating position close to the ground thus enabling the bantam rooster to mount the saddle area on the back of the hen. From this position the rooster must be large enough to touch cloaca to cloaca in order to deliver the sperm packet.
Banty is short for Bantam. The old folks back in the day just always call Bantam Roosters, "banty" roosters. In addition this term is used to describe the behavior of some short men who may tend to walk with a swagger and adopt a somewhat exaggerated male posture. They are called banty roosters after the bantam rooster both because of their size and because their behavior can "out-rooster" the more standard sized rooster. Bantams are about 1/4 the size of what is considered a "regular" chicken. They are sometimes referred to as domestic game birds. Most people raise them as pets, unfortunately there are those who still raise and use them to fight. A Banty rooster will try with all his might to mate a standard hen. Whether he can actually make the connection to fertilize eggs is a whole nother question.
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YES. We didn't think it could happen so we let one little Bantam hen keep an egg because she wanted to lay on it. Then all of a sudden I am checking for more eggs and BOOM! We had a baby chick. We were shocked. We have two Rhode Island Reds and an Egyptian-looking chicken. We are pretty sure he got to the Egyptian-looking one because we always see him trying to get to the Rhode Island Reds, but with little success. Now our little Bantam rooster is actually a very large Bantam... his dad was less than half his size and he some how turned out huge so maybe this influenced his ability to get up there! Another view: They will certainly try, but most Bantam roosters are too small to 'make it'. If a bantam rooster is the only male in the flock the hens will often make adjustments for his size. The hens will flatten out or squat down fluffing their feathers after he does the signal dance. (the rooster dances side ways around the hen he has chosen to mate with) The rooster stands on the hens back and mating takes place.
Yes, they are all part of the same species (Gallus gallus domesticus), so it is possible for them to mate and produce fertile offspring. One of the only reasons that wouldn't work is if the hen or the rooster is too small. If one is a bantam, it will be hard.
yes any rooster will mate with any hen just give them time
Chickens are not bound by human moral issues. It is wise to freshen the gene pool every few years by replacing the rooster to ensure healthy offspring. Yes, allow the rooster to mate with his flock.
because they want to mate with hens
He is trying to mate.
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Yes because the young turkey is part of the chicken rooster