Heh. I guess its a regional thing we had banny chickens. At least thats the way we pronounced it. Meanwhile, they were Bantam chickens in real life. But maybe there is such a thing as a Banny chicken.
Its sort of like how we used to call a Brahman bull a bramer (sounds like bray-mer) bull. I was probably 16 years old and was at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and saw a leaflet that had a picture of a Brahman bull. I thought theyre high thats a bramer. But later I realized that our family was probably single-handedly destroying the English language. Ha.