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130: 274: 25: 122: 262: 160:. 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. A 424: 389: 484: 479: 434: 308: 266: 89: 61: 317: 161: 68: 108: 42: 218:– bantam breed of duck originally bred to attract wild ducks within the range of hunters with guns, now kept as pets 221: 75: 513: 46: 57: 241: 210: 188:. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native breeds of chicken in 301: 523: 414: 35: 205: 294: 376: 82: 8: 336: 137: 368: 352: 328: 518: 469: 344: 409: 399: 360: 133: 381: 189: 278: 507: 429: 394: 177: 157: 129: 444: 404: 273: 419: 215: 185: 24: 464: 459: 121: 449: 454: 153: 492: 474: 286: 261: 192:
to be useful, and any such small poultry came to be known as a
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chicken is naturally small and has no large counterpart.
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Japanese bantam
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fowl
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List of chicken breeds
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Call duck
Dwarfism in chickens
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Bantam chicken breeds

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