Figure 1.

Traditional Dutch chicken breeds. (a) Large fowl. The bird shown here is a Drenthe fowl boolstat, a breed of chicken whose main trait under selection is the absence of the tail. (b) Neo‐bantam. The individual is a bantamised bird of the Dutch fowl breed and thus called Dutch fowl bantam. Neo‐bantams are usually 2/3 the size of the original large fowl counterpart. (c) Bantam. The bird shown is the Dutch bantam, one of the few true bantam breeds that exists only small in size. Bantam chickens are usually about a third to half the size of a regular large fowl chicken