1. Old English Bantam Chickens
2. Black Tailed Red Old English Game Bantam

Old English Game Bantams In Order by Color Variety The following are the many different color varieties: Click on Variety Name to see! Birchen Cock Birchen Pullet Black Cock Black Hen Black Breasted Red Cock Black Breasted Red Hen Black Tailed Buff Pullet Black Tailed Buff Cockerel Blue Cock Blue Pullet Blue Quail Cock Blue Quail Pullet Blue. Old English Game Bantams are a hard feather breed that originate in Great Britain. They were first exhibited here as Old English Game Bantams in the late 1890’s.

The Bantam Old English chicks are one of the more popular breeds of show bantams in the United States. They have fun and active dispositions, and they require minimal space and feed. The Standard Old English Game Fowl are thought to be one of the oldest breeds of land fowl, and they are most known for their gameness. Black Breasted Old English Bantams are one of the more beautiful varieties of the breed. They were also one of the first Old English varieties admitted to the standard as game bantams. The head, hackle and saddle plumage of the male is a beautiful and deep red-orange.

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: Carlisle Old English Game and Oxford Old English Game.^[6] There is also an Old English Game bantam.^[6]

Old English Bantam Chickens

History[edit]

Characteristics[edit]

The Old English Game has many colour variants. Twenty-eight are recognised by the American Poultry Association,^[5] while the Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture lists thirty-three.^[7] In Britain, thirteen colours are recognised for the Carlisle type, and thirty for the Oxford type.^[4]

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[edit]

1. ^Breed data sheet: Old English Game/United Kingdom. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2014.
2. ^Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (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: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN9789251057629. Accessed November 2016.
3. ^ ^abcdefVictoria 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. ISBN9781405156424.
4. ^ ^abcdOld English Game. Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed November 2016.
5. ^ ^abAPA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
6. ^ ^abcBreed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
7. ^Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.

Black Tailed Red Old English Game Bantam