Below is how blue normally works. I really like the color variations in the miners. I think my favorites are some of the flashy splash males and the males with a deep blue body and some other color of hackle and saddle. But hey, good birds are good birds!
They were developed from two game breeds, Old English and Malay. They weren't bred to be game, they are exhibiation (show) fowl that have the exaggerated look of a gamefowl. After cockfighting was banned in England.
I had a Modern Cock that died in an accidental fight with another one of my other roosters, when he escaped one day. Both were tore up, but the modern didnt survive. Is that Game? Id say yes he was...
All great looking birds SDM! This male above is excellent! Out of the late batch of chicks, there was one that had a slight tinge of brown on the down at hatching, so I have been watching it. It is a blue stag, and today I noticed some orange pin feathers coming in for the hackle and saddle. I will keep my fingers crossed that he turns out something like the stag above.
