Chicken Interrupts Soccer Match - What Breed Is It?

[Lothiriel]

Yeah, it's definitely a hen. Spurs don't mean much of anything when it comes to gender.

Well now I see it better I don't think it's an BBR OEGB... and probably not a Campine either, for the reasons Stephanie mentioned... hmm....

The pattern looks quill to me... I know there's a Silver Quill OEGB, but I'm not sure if there's a gold quill. It probably is a lot like the Golden Campine pattern, like this OEGB... I think it's also called Ginger, or Ginger Red.

 

[Coop Deville]

actully looking more closy at the bird....i take my answer bakc. The barring on the feather is wrong. it actully lookes penciled instead..and its earlobes are red...not white..its not a golden campine. its a hen...what country or state was the soccer game at??

Northeast of Liverpool in England. That prompted my guess of it possibly being a Cream Legbar.

 

[Habibs Hens]

its not a cream legbar

in UK cream legbars dont look nothing like that

but it does look similar to a golden campine

gonen try find out what it is

im sure it will be on BBC News later

in the mean time enjoy this video its well funny

 

[Habibs Hens]

i would have to agree OEGB

for 2 reason

1 it looks like one

and 2 it was in the north of england and the northerners as we call em tend to have more of these game type birds then other breeds

where as in south we tend to keep more of teh other breeds and stear clear of the game birds

 

[Time-Out]

Poor chicken It must have been stressed out of its mind.

 

[Pele]

I know. On one hand, watching people try to get it off the field would be hilarious. On the other hand, not hilarious for the bird.

Poor chicken It must have been stressed out of its mind.

 

[Poultriary]

So, this is a stale thread, but I'm going to throw in anyhow. The hen in the photo with the "cape" looks to me to be a Ginger Red Old English Hen, but not a bantam. Large fowl Old English hens are not as large a laying hens (they might typically run half the weight of, say, an Orpington). It does not appear to be the same hen that got clocked by the ball - I don't see markings on her.

As I understand it, "Ginger Red" in Oxford Old English covers both what I would normally describe as Ginger Red in the standards and Red Quill (which is not described in the Bantam Standard but may be in the Standard of Perfection). In some respects, it's all a matter of how far up the body the markings go on the female, but genetically there is one difference - the pattern gene is in Red Quill but not in Ginger Red. Both Ginger Red and Red Quill males are essentially Black-Tailed Reds, although if you lift their wings you'll see more black marks on the Red Quills body under the wings.

Also, in LF Old English games - and true games in general - hens are more likely to develop spurs than your average breed. Some believe that dams with spurs breed better sons for the purposes for which they were originally bred, so there was probably selection pressure for spurred hens.