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The Booted Bantam or Dutch Booted Bantam is a European breed of true bantam chicken.It is characterised by abundant feathering on the feet and shanks, which gives it a "booted" appearance; and by vulture hocks, long stiff downward-pointing feathers on backs of the thighs, [4]: 139 from which the Dutch name Sabelpoot ("sabre-legged") derives.
This is a list of the true bantam breeds of chicken, breeds which are naturally small and do not have a corresponding "full-size" version. Barbu d'Anvers (Antwerpse Baardkriel) [1] Barbu d'Everberg (Everbergse Baardkriel) [1] Barbu d'Uccle (Ukkelse Baardkriel) [1] Barbu de Boitsfort (Bosvoordse Baardkriel) [1] Barbu de Grubbe (Grubbe Baardkriel ...
The Dutch Bantam (Dutch: Hollandse Kriel) is a breed of bantam chicken originating in the Netherlands. [6] [7] It is a true bantam, a naturally small bird with no related large fowl from which it was miniaturized. [8]: 136 It is kept mainly for exhibition, and has been bred in many color varieties; it is a good layer of small eggs. [9]: 45
Millefleur, black mottled and white varieties. The Barbu d'Uccle or Belgian d'Uccle, [7] [8] Dutch: Ukkelse Baardkriel, is a Belgian breed of bearded bantam chicken.It was first bred in the town of Uccle on the outskirts of Brussels, in central Belgium, in the early years of the twentieth century.
The Sebright is a true bantam chicken breed Japanese bantam chick (left) compared to an Orpington chick. A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck.Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects.
Rumpless breeds of chicken include: the Araucana or Rumpless Araucana of South America, both large fowl and bantam; [4]: 45 the Belgian Barbu de Boitsfort, Barbu de Grubbe and Barbu d'Uccle bantams; [4]: 75 the Japanese Uzurao, a rumpless equivalent of the Tosa-Kojidori bantam, [5]: 95 and Ingie (large fowl) from Kagoshima Prefecture; [5]: 103 the Rumpless Game of the United Kingdom (both ...
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