bantam

In March 2023, the bantam hen from Michigan was crowned the world's oldest living chicken by Guinness World Records.

It is not uncommon for this breed of bantam to be the top of the pecking order among milder-mannered breeds.

Jack and some of the other boys in his neighborhood would ride their bikes around carrying miniature bantam roosters, or banties, which they would take under a shade tree and pair up for fights.

Barnes grew up in Eastvale, just an hour from Los Angeles, and played for bantam and junior teams supported by the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks.

He was skinny as a young man, and the Toronto Globe and Mail once quoted some of his fellow fliers as saying he was “more like a wiry bantam weight.”