Bantam cock and hen | |
Conservation status | |
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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]
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]
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]