Old English or Dutch?

[GotGame]

Quote:
Thank you for clearing that up. We are new to raising OEGBs, so these are the types of things we are trying to learn as we go.

a recommendation I would make to anyone really wanting to raise OEGB, is to buy the book 'Old English Game as Bred and Shown in the United States' by fred jeffrey, it is extremely helpful and informative on most of the varieties of old english...a must have for any person interested in breeding oe...

 

[DTchickens]

Quote:
Almost all of my "Old English" have slate legs...do they differ color to color? I have mostly blues and varities there of. Not but one or two pink legs in the house. All are supposed to be purebred OEBGs from both breeders and hatcheries. They have the red earlobes at least, not white.

Edit to say they all have slate/gray legs in various shades. Not all of them are super dark gray.

Should of been more clear in that it is possible for Old English to have slate blue legs, and black. But it is limited to the dark varieties like brown red, brassyback, black (and their crosses such as Birchen, mealy grey, etc.), blue varieties (and their crosses are sometimes permitted to have the blue legs), Ginger red/Mille Fluer, red/silver quill, Quail, Chocolate (which is really blue, being as it is dun), and the silver/golden laced patterns have the slate legs too. But that is due to the crosses with Sebright's to create them by Ideal and they were never selected for leg type. I don't guess it's a big deal really, most of the other birds are probably blue legged from crosses too if you asked me.

But the variety in question should match the description I gave, looks like a BBred bird which in OEGB would have white legs.

-Daniel