Old English Game
.JPG) Golden duckwing bantam cock and hen | |
| Conservation status | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Traits | |
| Weight | |
| Egg colour | white tinted[4] |
| Comb type | single |
| Classification | |
| APA | all other standard breeds[5] |
| EE | yes[6] |
| PCGB | hard feather[7] |
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The Old English Game is a British breed of domestic chicken. It was probably originally bred for cockfighting.[4] Two different standards are recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain: the Carlisle Old English Game and the Oxford Old English Game.[7] There is an Old English Game bantam.[7][8]
Characteristics
[edit]The Old English Game has many colour variants. In Britain, thirteen colours are recognised for the Carlisle type, and thirty for the Oxford type,[4] while the Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture lists thirty-three.[6] Twenty-eight are recognised by the American Poultry Association,[5]
Use
[edit]Since the abolition of cock-fighting in 1849, the Old English Game has been kept primarily for show. Old English Game hens may lay about forty small tinted eggs in a year.[4]
References
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- ↑ Breed data sheet: Old English Game / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Chicken). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2025.
- ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Victoria Roberts (2008). British poultry standards: complete specifications and judging points of all standardized breeds and varieties of poultry as compiled by the specialist breed clubs and recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405156424.
- 1 2 3 4 Old English Game. Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed November 2016.
- 1 2 APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
- 1 2 Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
- ↑ Breed data sheet: Old English Game (miniature) / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Chicken). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2025.
