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 |
|
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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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