OLD ENGLISH GAME

 

 

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ORIGIN:   Britain                                                                     

CATEGORY: Hard feather

EGG COLOUR:  Tinted (Sitters)

 

CLASSIFICATION

CODE

MASSES

BREED CODE

RING SIZES

Light breed

 

 

 

 

LARGE

 

 

176

 

Cock

10

1.8 to 2.5kg

 

C

Hen

12

1.4 to 1.8kg

 

C

Stag

14

1.8 to 2.5kg

 

C

Pullet

16

1.4 to 1.8kg

 

C

 

BANTAMS

 

 

430

 

Cock

10

850g maximum

 

A

Hen

12

750g maximum

 

A

Stag

14

800g maximum

 

A

Pullet

16

700g maximum

 

A

 

When the Romans invaded Britain, Julius Caesar wrote in his commentaries that the Britons kept fowls for pleasure and diversion but not for table purposes. Many well-known authorities have considered that cock-fighting was the diversion. In 1849 an Act of the British Parliament was passed making cock-fighting illegal in that country, and with poultry exhibitions then taking root, many breeders began to exhibit Game fowls. Over thirty colours of Old English Game have been known. The Old English Game Club split in about 1930 as there was already a divergence of birds being shown with larger breasted, horizontally backed, exhibition type birds tending to win. Breeders of these formed the Carlisle Club, developing only some of the original colours. Breeders of the original type, wherein the back is at 45º to the ground, maintained the well-balanced, close heeled, athletic fighting fowl, and formed the Oxford Club, retaining over thirty colours.

 

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