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Is this a black breasted red modern game bird?

post #1 of 16
3/3/10 at 7:36pm
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Hi I got Ruby and Rosy form someone who told me they were black breasted red modern game birds? Or red, blackbreasted modern game birds.  If that is right I don't know why, they certainly aren't black breasted and they aren't really red either.   Does anyone know what they are?

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Edited to add: Also, because I'm bad at the picture thing, I uploaded some pics earlier, very proud of myself for dong so, but now I can't find them and it says I can't upload duplicates?  Where are my pictures living?  How do I get to them? I hate to be so computer illiterate.. . .


Edited by kayri - 3/3/10 at 7:51pm
With Sarah (white rock) Adele (Barred rock),  Rosy Runs Fast and Ruby Runs Faster (BB red modern games) Priscilla (welsummer) Sammy (cat), oh and of course Lucas (15) and Katarina (10) Peter my SO, and a really big garden
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With Sarah (white rock) Adele (Barred rock),  Rosy Runs Fast and Ruby Runs Faster (BB red modern games) Priscilla (welsummer) Sammy (cat), oh and of course Lucas (15) and Katarina (10) Peter my SO, and a really big garden
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post #2 of 16
3/3/10 at 7:39pm

Leghorn  idunno

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TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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post #3 of 16
3/3/10 at 7:59pm

Definitely not a leghorn.  Maybe an american game.  Not a modern game as they have very long legs and an upright carriage.


Edited by PotterWatch - 3/3/10 at 8:01pm

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post #4 of 16
3/3/10 at 8:07pm

Maybe an OE game... I had a Pheonix X Game Her tail was much longer... Course yours could be OE x Pheonix and has the OE tail instead?
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll216/cthrash3865/DSCF1676.jpg

Have a great hubby, mother to two great kids... We have a Barred Rock, Buff Std Cochin, EE, Buff Columbian Cochin bantam, Blue Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, FBCM, Game hen, frizzle, a splash Polish pair, one handsome Black Ameraucana roo and a handful of play pretty Silkies.
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Have a great hubby, mother to two great kids... We have a Barred Rock, Buff Std Cochin, EE, Buff Columbian Cochin bantam, Blue Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, FBCM, Game hen, frizzle, a splash Polish pair, one handsome Black Ameraucana roo and a handful of play pretty Silkies.
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post #5 of 16
3/4/10 at 7:35am
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I don't think I would have guessed leghorn- we had a little flightly white one for a while, and these are not like her at all.

Thanks Cthrash1.  Is that a picture of your phoenix cross OEG?  She looks like mine.  Although mine have green- willow colored legs.  I don't think her tail is much longer than Ruby or Rosie's.  Is that coloring a black bresated red?

With Sarah (white rock) Adele (Barred rock),  Rosy Runs Fast and Ruby Runs Faster (BB red modern games) Priscilla (welsummer) Sammy (cat), oh and of course Lucas (15) and Katarina (10) Peter my SO, and a really big garden
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With Sarah (white rock) Adele (Barred rock),  Rosy Runs Fast and Ruby Runs Faster (BB red modern games) Priscilla (welsummer) Sammy (cat), oh and of course Lucas (15) and Katarina (10) Peter my SO, and a really big garden
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post #6 of 16
3/4/10 at 8:31am

Hi KAYRI. Your hens are Black Breasted American Games.They name the color because of roosters black breasts.In game breeds roo present the breed.

Black Leghorns- they are my main attention, White Leghorn,I still have a few Light Brown Leghorns, but am not going to breed them.I keep small flock GS Barred Rocks, small flock New Hampshire's and am starting to think about good SLW. I do not call myself Breeder- I am backyard chicken lover.

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Black Leghorns- they are my main attention, White Leghorn,I still have a few Light Brown Leghorns, but am not going to breed them.I keep small flock GS Barred Rocks, small flock New Hampshire's and am starting to think about good SLW. I do not call myself Breeder- I am backyard chicken lover.

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post #7 of 16
3/4/10 at 9:19am
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Originally Posted by kayri 

I don't think I would have guessed leghorn- we had a little flightly white one for a while, and these are not like her at all.

Thanks Cthrash1.  Is that a picture of your phoenix cross OEG?  She looks like mine.  Although mine have green- willow colored legs.  I don't think her tail is much longer than Ruby or Rosie's.  Is that coloring a black bresated red?


Yes that is mine... She past on over rainbow bridge this last Fall.  Got sick and just couldn't shake it even with antibiotics... I believe the mother was a BBR Am Game and the father was a Pheonix.

Have a great hubby, mother to two great kids... We have a Barred Rock, Buff Std Cochin, EE, Buff Columbian Cochin bantam, Blue Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, FBCM, Game hen, frizzle, a splash Polish pair, one handsome Black Ameraucana roo and a handful of play pretty Silkies.
Say anything to anyone... As long as you say it with a smile
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Have a great hubby, mother to two great kids... We have a Barred Rock, Buff Std Cochin, EE, Buff Columbian Cochin bantam, Blue Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, FBCM, Game hen, frizzle, a splash Polish pair, one handsome Black Ameraucana roo and a handful of play pretty Silkies.
Say anything to anyone... As long as you say it with a smile
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post #8 of 16
3/4/10 at 9:21am

I agree though about it def not being Leghorn... My brown leghorn does look just like that but her legs are yellow.

Have a great hubby, mother to two great kids... We have a Barred Rock, Buff Std Cochin, EE, Buff Columbian Cochin bantam, Blue Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, FBCM, Game hen, frizzle, a splash Polish pair, one handsome Black Ameraucana roo and a handful of play pretty Silkies.
Say anything to anyone... As long as you say it with a smile
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Have a great hubby, mother to two great kids... We have a Barred Rock, Buff Std Cochin, EE, Buff Columbian Cochin bantam, Blue Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, FBCM, Game hen, frizzle, a splash Polish pair, one handsome Black Ameraucana roo and a handful of play pretty Silkies.
Say anything to anyone... As long as you say it with a smile
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post #9 of 16
3/4/10 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by ve 

Hi KAYRI. Your hens are Black Breasted American Games.They name the color because of roosters black breasts.In game breeds roo present the breed.


Thanks ve, pardon my ignorance but is the American game bird different than the modern game bird?  Are they red, black breasted or just black breasted?  I don't know why I want to know, I guess just curious. . .

With Sarah (white rock) Adele (Barred rock),  Rosy Runs Fast and Ruby Runs Faster (BB red modern games) Priscilla (welsummer) Sammy (cat), oh and of course Lucas (15) and Katarina (10) Peter my SO, and a really big garden
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With Sarah (white rock) Adele (Barred rock),  Rosy Runs Fast and Ruby Runs Faster (BB red modern games) Priscilla (welsummer) Sammy (cat), oh and of course Lucas (15) and Katarina (10) Peter my SO, and a really big garden
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post #10 of 16
3/4/10 at 11:34am

I would say she is definitely most likely a American game over a OEG (which only have white legs), and a Modern game (which should be much taller, refer to feathersite for photos). But even then, she just seems like she could be a Indian red junglefowl as well, she looks identical to the two i purchased from Ideal 7-8 years ago.

Is the American game different than the Modern? Yes, in carriage, temperament, history, etc.


ETA: Black breasted red (BBR, BBred), black breasted, red black breasted (all depends how people word it, though black breasted red is the correct name and black breasted can refer to other colors as well), should all look like this. http://www.bantychicken.com/OEGBCA/variety/BBRcDougPierson1stCTb.jpghttp://www.bantychicken.com/OEGBCA/variety/BBRp2HeatherHayes1stPTb.jpg

Birds are OEGB's, taken from http://www.bantychicken.com/cgi-bin/OEGBCA/index.cgi?action=showhtml&id=varitiemain. They're not my birds.


Edited by DTchickens - 3/4/10 at 11:40am

Fourth generation poultry breeder focusing on Kraienköppe- the breed that won my heart and replaced all others on my farm.

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Fourth generation poultry breeder focusing on Kraienköppe- the breed that won my heart and replaced all others on my farm.

No matter how hard things get, always fight for what you believe in- Daniel
http://www.freewebs.com/dtsfowl/

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