RJM @ 3, I've been wondering about this on and off for a couple of days and I suspect it's just because that was where they were first bred, or were commonly kept, or some such.
Rhode Island Red, and White Plymouth Rock, and Dark Cornish, and Speckled Sussex, and Jersey White, and New Hampshire Red aren't for small towns, just for places, but it's probably much the same for them too.
"A bantam is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically, the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam, once a major seaport, in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native breeds of chicken in Southeast Asia to be useful, and any such small poultry came to be known as a bantam."
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Is that a Norfolk Blue that has been dyed?
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yes.
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Anyone know why chickens are named after small towns? Orpington, Dorking etc.
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RJM @ 3, I've been wondering about this on and off for a couple of days and I suspect it's just because that was where they were first bred, or were commonly kept, or some such.
Rhode Island Red, and White Plymouth Rock, and Dark Cornish, and Speckled Sussex, and Jersey White, and New Hampshire Red aren't for small towns, just for places, but it's probably much the same for them too.
I don't know where Bantam is, though.
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"A bantam is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically, the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam, once a major seaport, in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native breeds of chicken in Southeast Asia to be useful, and any such small poultry came to be known as a bantam."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam_(chicken)
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RJM@03
Quite a bit of info here:
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html
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Charlie @ 5, oh, you *star*! :-)
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