I hadn’t kept bantams until, about six years ago, a friend gave me two Lavender Pekins. Quickly named Pam and Betty, after my beloved Bolton aunt and granny, they proved as feisty and formidable as ...

David Hager has a big hobby. “It’s like playing golf or anything else,” Hager says. “It’s a hobby.” However, Hager’s hobby is raising and showing some 240 bantam chickens at his home in Mount Ulla.

Meet Bean, TikToker @bittiesandbuns’ tiniest hen. Dutch Bantam chickens are known for their petite size, and to show just how tiny Bean really is, her family compared her to a few everyday objects. It ...

AMBOY, Minn. — Years of showing top chickens around the United States has merited Mark Peterson a lifetime achievement award from the American Bantam Association. He is one of only 18 ABA members who ...

Keeping a garden well and keeping free-range chickens are not the most naturally compatible of pastimes. Pecking beaks will wreak havoc with delicate, emerging flower buds, and dust-bathing, a ...