Bantam (poultry)
Image:Bantam and standard chicks.jpg|thumb|right|Japanese bantam chick compared to an Orpington chick
A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck. Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects. A List of true bantam [chicken breeds|true bantam] chicken is naturally small and has no large counterpart.