Here at KeydeMoore Farm we like variety and we love our poultry. We are especially
fond of our different breeds of Bantams. We currently have a breeding pair
of Old English Porcelain Game Bantams and a breeding trio
of Spanish Game-Fowl. We are adding to these as we go but
they are the only once breeding at this time.
A bantam is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically,
the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam, once a major seaport,
in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found
the small native breeds of chicken in Southeast Asia to be useful, and any
such small poultry came to be known as a bantam.
A true bantam has no large counterpart, it is naturally small.
However most large chicken breeds have a bantam counterpart, sometimes referred
to as a miniature. The Bantam rooster is famous its aggressive, "puffed-up"
disposition that can be comedic because of its diminutive stature. Bantam
hens are renowned for hatching and brooding purpose. Bantams clutch a variety
of eggs from quail up to two goose eggs, and are known as fearsome mothers,
with a high success rate in rearing any egg hatched.