Showing game chickens

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City: Boone, NC. City: Tri-Cities, TN. City: Dothan, AL. City: Hickory, NC. City: Columbus, GA. City: Nacogdoches, TX. City: Columbia, SC. 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. Photo Rupert Stephenson. In addition to the Modern Game club, many smaller clubs appeared in Britain, catering for some of the colour varieties such as Brown-Red and the Pile.

At the Second World War outbreak, these clubs, like many others, suspended their activities and never reopened their doors but were replaced by The Modern Game Bantam Club in , which later became The Modern Game Club covering both large and bantam sizes. Today Modern Game bantams remain a favourite and are far more popular than the large size.

Modern Game are slow to mature and not terribly hardy, so adequate shelter is needed during colder weather. The following books are available. Bantam: Cock: —. Origin: Cornwall, England. Eggs: 60 — 90 tinted. Weight: Cock:. Nowadays American Game chicken is become more popular as a show or ornamental bird. Like the American Poultry Association, there are organizations that have standards for showing these birds, like the American Gamefowl Society.

Unlike most other fowl, the American Game chicken is broken down into strains. The names of strain originated from people that performed well in the pits with the birds they made themselves through selective breeding. There is a bantam version of American Game chicken.

American Game is one of the most beautiful poultry breed. They come in a wide variety of colors. Their comb can be found as single and pea comb and with combinations of each.