What does the Game in gamefowl mean?

[Nickeyo]

actually old english and american game birds are quite small compared to lets say welsumers

 

[Nickeyo]

i love this bird what breed is he. he is beautiful.

 

[gallorojo]

actually old english and american game birds are quite small compared to lets say welsumers

Correct, however, Centrarchid is right when he says they are larger than pure wild junglefowl, they are MUCH larger, almost or literally twice as large as jungle fowl, which was his point. He was not saying they are large birds generally, just larger than the wild ancestor.

 

[centrarchid]

Correct, however, Centrarchid is right when he says they are larger than pure wild junglefowl, they are MUCH larger, almost or literally twice as large as jungle fowl, which was his point. He was not saying they are large birds generally, just larger than the wild ancestor.

Gallorojo does better with my intended point. I also left out the purely ornamental fowl and some of those (bantams) have been selected for dimunitve size but to my knowledge they were derived from standard sized fowl of some sort, not directly from any jungle fowl.

 

[Judy]

It would appear this thread has run its course, considering BYC rules. Thank you for your participation.