It is a true or realy bantam chicken that comes from Beijing. The British Army brought the Chicken from China at the second Opium War and give it to the Queen Victoria who lead United Kingdom at the time.
This is an interesting bantam and you can raise at your backyard. The are tame and they are prolific too. the hen are good sitter and very attentive to its chick, while the rooster could be aggressive when other chicken enter its region.
The chicken have round shape body with the thick plumage. This chicken is soft feather chciken.
there are some various of the full feather shank buff, birchen, coulmbian, barred, cucko, lavender, mottled, partridge, silver partridge and white. The bantam also named as Cochin Bantam. West people said that Cochin is Shanghai.
This chicken is small. Thee roster wieghs 680 gram , while the hen weighs 570 gram.
