A Bantam chicken is a smaller breed of any variety of chicken breeds. The name ‘Bantam’ is derived from the port city of Bantam in Indonesia. This is where European sailors first encountered a smaller breed of chicken. After that, all smaller breeds of chickens became known as Bantams. Bantam chickens are also often referred to as miniatures as they are usually 1/5 ‘th to the size of their same breed counterparts. Bantam chickens have gained most of it’s popularity as pets or show birds, because Bantam chickens tend to come in more exotic colors as well as having a greater variety of feather patterns.

RFID (radio frequency identification) chips or tags as they are better known are as big as the smallest coin in your pocket, but they can hold huge amounts of data that can be used in ways that can do incredible things.

Year after year usually in the winter time of June and July in South Africa, one of natures great occasions comes about. Countless small sardines leave their breeding waters of the Agulhas Bank found in the southern waters of South Africa where the cool Atlantic Ocean and warm Indian Ocean meet. It is the coming together of these 2 oceans which make the waters perfect breeding grounds since they are loaded in nutrients.