Malaysian Serama
There are legends of the Serama being descent from a chance cross between a pigeon and chicken. The modern breed is attributed to the efforts of Wee Yean Een from Kelantan, who named the breed “Serama” after Raja Sri Rama, a character in the Wayang Kulit (or shadow puppet plays). Many breeders have a style or type that they breed to, but often breeders keep several “styles”. These styles are often names given by breeders to describe a blood line of a champion, but may also be more general shape, characteristics or behaviour (e.g. slim, ball , apple, and dragon). Hence there is quite a lot of diversity in Malaysia.
In Malaysia, they are described as brave warriors and archangel chickens, because of their very human like appearance.
(Source: Wikipedia)
