Talk:Bantam (poultry)

message: Could someone help me please do Bantam chickens dig holes to lay in when it is hot. Or should we be alarmed that there maybe something wrong with our chicken winnie  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.8.233 (talk) 05:33, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: one-fifth to one-quarter the size of the standard breed?

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message: And please don't tell me it's chicken. Myles325a (talk) 03:39, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: they taste like chicken Caucasianhamburger (talk) 03:40, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What do they taste like? 

message: Are they equivalent to human dwarfs? What happens if you cross a standard and a bantam? Are the offspring either standard or bantam, or is there a continuous range of sizes?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.76.228 (talk) 02:32, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are they smaller, genetically? 

message: In the spirit of Wikipedia accuracy, it looks like we ned to get the definition right, because at the moment it's very wishy-washy. In fact there are two outright contradictions!
In that spirit I contribute this: Pat Birchall, one of the most famous poultry breeders in all of Australia (there's my referenced source!), told me that it's ONLY a "bantam" IF there is an equivalent full sized breed. That is, not every small poultry breed is a bantam. 
Old_Wombat (talk) 03:03, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are two classifications of bantam. True bantam, which has no large counter part, and bantam, which has a large counterpart. Though generally bantam refers to any small chicken breed. Anjwalker  Talk 06:02, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need to get the definition right! 

message: This picture compare the chick of a known large breed with  the chick of a true bantem. If there is a 'bantam' version of every breed, that is what should be used for comparison. Rui Gabriel Correia (talk) 23:28, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed in essence. Not to mention Japanese are the 2nd smallest of the True Bantams according to standardised weights (the closely related Serama is the only one smaller), so it's not really a far comparison. But that said, unless a better photo is available I wouldn't remove it immediately. JTdale  Talk 02:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparing apples and pears 

message: no they are not.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.234.55.14 (talk) 02:42, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bantam chicken eggs are only about a third to half the size of a regular hen egg.