Porcelain (O.E.G)
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 ones breeding at this
time.
A bantam is a small variety of poultry, sometimes referred to as specialty chickens. The name bantam is derived from the city
of Bantam in Indonisia. This was once an important Seaport. 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.
