What Is Your Favorite Type Of Game Chicken

[Vcomb]

i think part of what they are saying in terms of considering some of those breeds to no longer be game is that they have had other breeds bred into them at some point to improve them for the show ring or add new colors, thus diluting the original breeding. therefore, they are no longer truly game fowl. it would be like breeding a rosecomb bantam into a phoenix....is it still a phoenix? not trying to stir things up, i'm just saying everybody chill out, there's different opinions on what does and does not and for what reasons qualify as a game breed. i for example do not consider the aba recognized "american game bantam" truly a game due to the fact that red junglefowl and b.b. red old english or some other breed was used to create them alongside miniature pit games.

to each their own. i think what it boils down to is once a breed has had another breed put into it it can never go back to being that original breed, even if it looks and acts the part.

 

[prariechiken]

Yep...it is the referring to a fowl as a "game" breed even though their original and continued purpose had nothing to do with "gameness". Take the moderns for example....a pure show fowl, only "game" because that is part of their foundation families, but selection and breeding has taken them far from "gameness". Same with the longtails...purpose was the tail, game left em when the tail became the focus of the breeders. Early sumatra lines were way more game than what we are now left with. To each their own, not my place to tell someone what they can and can't call game....I only got a bunch of fluffy mutt chickens anyways......

 

[floridachickenman]

hey prariechicken! what kind of bird is in that pic? just curious and thanks for ur good insight, mark

 

[prariechiken]

Thats one of our young Thais. Oriental gamefowl breed from Thailand area originally. Great colors and excellent personalities. More like dogs than chickens. This one was following me around the yard......

 

[wclawrence]

I don't really have anything valuable to add at this point, since too many in this post have replied without reading the post above it.
I just wanted to say Whaaaa, whaaa, whaaaaa-aaaaa.

Dont you know that game chickens are the only game chickens?
Those other chickens that aren't game can't be game. If they were game, then they would be, but since they are not, then they aren't.

Other than that,
someone said "Sumatras are not game"
well, true in most cases. But I have a friend that raises game (the true fighting definition) birds and raises Sumatras as well. He has been raising pit worthy sumatras for a long time, but now most of them are crossed with hatch or whatever. He gave me a hen, and I raised some chickens out of her and my Asil rooster that were game to the core.
so MOST sumatras are not tough. but originally they were, and I know where some are that are tough and mean.

My new favorite GAME chicken is silkie x cochin. Just a joke nobody have a coniption fit.

Vcomb, you asked a very important question...it would be like breeding a rosecomb bantam into a phoenix....is it still a phoenix?

the answer is no, at this point. Here is why
If you breed a Rosecomb to a Phoenix, the F1 offspring will all be pretty much short-feathered. and mixed colors probably as well. But in show chickens, you only care about the phenotype. So when they look like phoenix, they are phoenix. In other words you could develop a Phoenix with a rose comb (no need really I have some already) by breeding your best F1(s) back to good phoenix, rinse and repeat.

 

[Vcomb]

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exactly! oh and your friends not the only one with pit worthy sumatras, i'm told by a reliable source there's some strains of them in South America still also.

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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You are using GAME as in actual fighting game that are used for illegal purposes. You are implying that Old English, Moderns or other poultry descendant from GAME chickens no longer can use that title because they are not used to kill other birds anymore.
What you are basiclly saying is that only birds that are used to kill other birds can use the title of GAME, correct?

first off..don't put words into my mouth..secondly..hopefully this thread will get locked! Now..as i said, oegb's are NOT game, Modern game bantams are NOT game and neither are sumatras..Game is Game..if you are any kind of breeder, which apparently you aren't you would know that preservation is a priority, not for illegal purposes!

then could you give me an example of a game breed then?

 

[MRNpoultry]

then could you give me an example of a game breed then?

Black Roundheads

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

I've never heard of that breed. I was asking ChinaChicks but thanks for answering.

 

[DTchickens]

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Black roundheads (Really are called "chickenlover" roundheads "dont get mad at me for that, just what their called". ) are a Strain of american gamefowl produced by Crossing a Black (Whatever strain), To a roundhead (whoever/whatever strain).