Yes, they can! There are no problems associated with hatching mixed breed chickens. If you have a rooster in your flock, he will try to breed ALL your hens, nevermind if he is a different breed or even if the hens are different sizes, bantam and large fowl.Click to see full answer. Accordingly, can I put a bantam rooster with standard hens?1. A bantam rooster might not be able to reach a full size hen. You may get small eggs from large birds and Large eggs from bantams that might kill her.Subsequently, question is, does inbreeding affect chickens? You are perfectly fine to inbreed your chickens, particularly if you are only doing it in the short-term. It’s called linebreeding instead of inbreeding, and basically involves breeders diluting as many characteristics as possible by breeding related animals. Similarly, can brother and sister chickens breed? You can safely mate brother and sister chickens for at least a few generations. Linebreeding is a form of inbreeding where a child chicken is mated back to its parent. This is done with many types of animals to ‘lock in’ desirable traits.Can a rooster be too big for a hen?Very large roosters can be a problem, even if his hens are his own breed.
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