The Japanese Bantam chicken is a true bantam chicken, in that it has no large counterpart. This breed has always been small, ...

However, silkies are considered true bantams because there's no full-sized silkie breed. Bantam chickens weigh 25 to 30% of what standard chickens do. As a result, they can be cheaper to care for ...

Silkie The beguiling, fluffy Silkie is thought to originate from China Marco Polo wrote of ‘fur-covered fowl with black skin' has a topknot and is unusual in that it has five toes instead of four.

There are about 18 breeds of bantam chicken, which include pekin, dutch and sebright, but silkie is gaining the most popularity in Kenya. ‘Weird’ characteristics.