I hadn’t kept bantams until, about six years ago, a friend gave me two Lavender Pekins. Quickly named Pam and Betty, after my beloved Bolton aunt and granny, they proved as feisty and formidable as ...

Since then she has been showing for more than 20 years and now keeps up to 250 Pekin Bantams at a time. “We were given two as a school project and it all started from there,” she said. The local ...