Talk:Bantam (poultry)

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The prose of this article seems a bit off. it drops into first person sometimes and the questioning paragraph is an odd thing for an encyclopedia. It also seems to have POV issues feeling a little like pro-bantam propaganda. The information seems good though. It should be noted there actually is an anti-bantam feeling among some too. mainly chicken raisers who don't want bantams to interbreed with their stock.

I have never heard of something called a "pekin bantam", and I hhave been a chicken fancier for several years. There is a Pekin duck, and there are bantam breeds with leg feathers such those described in this article, but they are not called pekin bantams. I'm concerned because it is such a common mistake to think "bantam" is a breed, when in fact, it is just a smal version of something. There are some breeds of chicken that only have a bantam version, and many others that come in either bantam or standard.

I have just learned that "pekin" is what Cochin bantams are called outside of North America.

___ There is a lot of information about the pekin (cochin) bantam. Shouldnt this be moved to its own page?--βjweþþ (talk) 12:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ive moved the information to pekin bantam What do you think?.

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I think that somebody should add the different breeds of Bantam Chickens. I know that some people would think that the Bantam Chicken is one breed. I have added information about the Bantam Chicken and i feel that somebody should be adding more aswell to this stump article.

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Bantams are known as the flower garden of the poultry world.

beg pardon, but this could use a bit more clarification 68.239.20.246 00:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

one-fifth to one-quarter the size of the standard breed?

The article says, "Miniatures are usually one-fifth to one-quarter the size of the standard breed". A bantam is one fifth of the size of a hen? That makes them about the size of a gerbil. Is this a mistake, a joke, or am I missing something? -- Euchiasmus 10:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've just been reading a book about poultry and discovered what I think is the answer. A photograph in the book shows a bantam as being about 60% of the height of its large fowl counterpart, but the caption says it's about a quarter of the size. If you reduce all the dimensions of something by 60%, its volume (and supposedly its mass) decreases by (0.6)³ which is 0.216. That's "one-fifth to one-quarter the size of the standard breed". When I read the article and inserted the comment above, I was imagining it meant a fifth to a quarter of the height. Silly mistake of mine, but I'll leave the comment here just in case anyone else misunderstands it. Euchiasmus 06:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]