[muawiyah]

Since Bantams have their origin in Indonesia and the very heavily populated SE Asian regions ~ they may well be much more representative of chickens than you imagine.

These critters managed to make it to South America!

BTW, there are "miniature" varities of all the common breeds ~ these guys have their own design peculiarities and mtdna ~

[tacticalogic]

Since Bantams have their origin in Indonesia and the very heavily populated SE Asian regions ~ they may well be much more representative of chickens than you imagine..

I was thinking that something like a common domestic chicken might be more representative of domestic chickens.