Can you help me identify this chicken?

[crait]

I'm positive that this is some kind of modern game but what breed is it exactly?
It was a feral chicken that I'm going to adopt and I don't even know if it's a boy or a girl, either!

Can you guys help me out?

Thanks in advance!!

 

[crzychickenlady]

My guess would be an Asil.......

Definately a "boy"

 

[houndit]

It does kind of remind me of an Asil or Shamo.

 

[crait]

Thanks, guys. I was thinking it was a girl, though because it's pretty big. It's bigger than my gold sex link and black australorp that look a bit older than him/her and he/she doesn't have spurs. I've never really dealt with game birds so I couldn't really tell by the comb.

 

[Illia]

Actually everything but the tail says girl, but it looks rainy anyway. . . - Looks like a Shamo though. Keep it away from other chickens it it will be the best pet chicken you've ever had.

- Well, depending on its previous life.

 

[crait]

Oh, yeah. This chicken's already the second most tamest chicken I've ever held. Second behind my first rooster.

R.I.P. Kermit...
But I digress- It kinda snowed in central Texas today. (The most snow I've ever seen in my life fall from the sky.) And in Texas, any snow we get is a mix of ice and rain, so it's damp. And he/she's pretty beaten up.

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

I was wondering what a shamo was so I did a search. Your new bird does look like some of the pic's in this thread page 1:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3498507

 

[Illia]

Shamo's are an oriental game fowl from Jspan, much like Asils and Malays and all the rest of the "buzzard" looking birds. But as someone else once said - This does look crossbred. The reason I wasn't so sure on gender (but pretty sure it is a pullet) is because its comb and head are so underdeveloped. Sure do hope you keep it though

I loooove Oriental Game Fowl, and can't wait to get my own trio.

 

[crait]

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Whoa! Are Shamos really expensive?!

 

[Illia]

Ideally, yes. That spangled one was sold really cheap (lucky duck) but the good, true, purebred ones go for $100 each or more. The cheapest I've ever seen for good Shamos is an $85 one because it was young and had a busted beak. They're well worth it to me, though. I'm surely going to spend a few hundred bucks for some.