When you think of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, you probably envision horses, cattle and bulls, but there’s a unique show you can only find in the poultry barn. Inside, the world’s ...

So what exactly is the bantam chicken breed? They are small domestic fowls that are often miniatures of standard breeds but are characterised by exotic colours and feather patterns. There are ...

Serama chickens are a bantam breed native to East Asia that are kept as pets and entered into beauty contests, with big cash prizes awarded to the winners. The tiny birds are the smallest breed of ...

Credit: Peter Rae "Some of the breeds at small bantam size produce really interesting coloured eggs. There's duck-egg blue. Green. Traditional white eggs, chocolate brown," she said.

A TINY chicken's egg laid in Suffolk could be smallest on record.The egg laid by a bantam chicken in Stanstead, near Sudbury, is only one inch across and belongs to the Johnsen family.

They strut around like supermodels, oozing glamour and with their chests held high, but despite the attitude, the world's smallest chickens are lucky to have survived.