| Formation: | 1914[1] |
| Purpose: | Poultry Fancy |
| Location: | Augusta, NJ |
| Region Served: | U.S. & Canada |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Matt Lhamon |
| Affiliations: | American Poultry Association |
The American Bantam Association is a poultry fancy association for breeders of bantam poultry. It publishes the Bantam Standard, with detailed descriptions of all the bantam breeds and varieties that it recognizes; in most – but not all – cases, these are the same as those recognised by the American Poultry Association. It also publishes a quarterly magazine and annual yearbook, hosts poultry shows and provides judges for them, and provides information on bantam breeds.
It sanctions or has sanctioned a number of poultry shows across the United States held by local groups, such as the Poultry and Rare Bird Show at the Los Angeles County Fair[2] and the Ohio National.
The first president of the association was Charles E. Rockenstyie, who died in 1944.[3]