Hen: 2. Bantam: Cock: — g. Useful to Know: Modern Game Bantams will tame easily, making excellent pets and are an unusual addition to the garden with their tall, slender looks that will not scratch as much as other breeds.
Photo courtesy of Rupert Stephenson. Modern Game Chickens originate in Great Britain. They came about thanks to the ban on cockfighting in because Game Fowl breeders started showing their birds in competitions instead. As the years went by, the show scene made certain characteristics more desirable: taller birds and hard feathering were required if an exhibitor were to win one of the top prizes.
By the s, the Old English Game name was being used by some. A Modern Game Club had been formed, and some birds were exchanging hands for large sums of money. Since they were purely an exhibition breed that was fetching high prices, newcomers could not afford them, and they were not productive, laying few eggs.
They would have cost breeders a lot to keep at a time of food shortages and hardship. By the time of the Second World War, Modern Game chickens were in very few hands and believed to have been extinct even though many had been exported to Europe and America. Thanks to a German breeder Paul Hohmann who received some hatching eggs from America in the s and started breeding in numbers and recreating many of the colour varieties we have in Europe today.
Modern Game Bantams began to appear in the s and by the early s like their large counterparts had evolved into the type of birds we see today. Their numbers did not suffer like their large counterparts during the First World War as they were far cheaper to keep, consuming less feed.
As in many breeds, there are both standard and bantam sizes of Modern Game. According to the standard of the Poultry Club of Great Britain, standard-sized cocks weigh 3. Today, the bantam version is the most popular among poultry fanciers. History After the outlawing of cockfighting in Britain in the midth century, many cockfighting enthusiasts turned to breeding for shows as an alternative poultry hobby, and the Modern Game was developed from crosses of Old English Game and Malays.
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Pure whites, white and black, and white and brown. Contact: Call or Text: Join the conversation at our Facebook Group! Blue: The comb, wattles, and earlobes are mulberry and the beak, eyes, shanks, and toes are black to leaden black. They have standard blue plumage. Blue-Breasted Red: The beak is horn and the eyes are red. The shanks and toes are willow. Male: The head is light orange and the hackle and saddle are golden red.
The back is rich red and the front of the neck, breast, body, legs and tail are blue. The wings are blue with red and bay highlights. Female: The head is orangy red and the hackle is light orange with a blue stripe down the middle of each feather. The front of the neck and breast are light salmon shading to ashy gray as it bends with body feathers. The body, wings, legs, and tail are bluish gray stippled with brown, which gives the overall effect of a dreary brown.
Brown Red: The comb, wattles, and earlobes are mulberry and the beak, eyes, shanks, and toes are all black. They have standard brown-red plumage. Crele: The beak is horn and the eyes are red. The shanks and toes are yellow. Male: They have barred orange red against a pale yellow straw like color on the head, hackle, back, and saddle. The remainder is barred gray and white. Female: The head and hackle are pale gold barred with grayish brown. The front of the neck and breast are salmon that shades to and ashy gray as it blends with the body.
The remainder is dark to ashy gray with some barring. Cuckoo: The beak is horn and the eyes are red.
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