Modern Game

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Modern Game
Livestock Conservancy (2024): threatened[3]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • Standard: 3.20–4.10 kg
    • Bantam: 570–620 g[4]: 185 
  • Female:
    • Standard: 2.25–3.20 kg
      Bantam: 450–510 g[4]: 186 
Classification
APAall other standard breeds[5]
EEyes[6]
PCGBhard feather[7]
  • Gallus gallus domesticus

    • The Modern Game is a British

    gamecock stock, but solely as an exhibition
    bird.

    History

    A hen in the United States

    Malay stock to develop an ornamental bird for exhibition.[9]
    : 131 

    This was initially known as the Game, and in 1865 was included in nine colours in the Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry, the first edition of the

    Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 1874.[5]

    Characteristics

    The Modern Game is tall and upright, with a long neck and long legs. The body is broad at the breast and tapers towards the tail, somewhat like a clothes iron in shape; the back is short and flat. Thirteen colours are recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain: birchen, black, black-red, blue, blue-red, brown-red, gold duckwing, lemon-blue, pile, silver-blue, silver duckwing, wheaten and white.[11]: 204  The colour of the beak and legs varies according to that of the plumage, from black in the birchen through willow-green in the duckwings and the black-red to yellow in the pile and white. The comb is single and small; the face, comb and wattles vary from black though deep purple to a bright red, and the eyes also vary from black to bright red.[11]: 204 

    Standard-sized cocks weigh 3.20–4.10 kg and hens 2.25–3.20 kg,[4]: 185  while bantams weigh 570–620 g and 450–510 g respectively.[4]: 186 

    Use

    The Modern Game does not lay well, nor is it valued for meat production. It is kept almost exclusively for showing, particularly in the bantam size.[8]: 62 [11]: 208 

    References

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    1. ISBN 9789251057629
      . Accessed August 2014.
    2. ^ Watchlist 2023–24. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Archived 16 March 2024.
    3. ^ Modern Game Chicken. Pittsboro, North Carolina: The Livestock Conservancy. Archived 23 August 2023.
    4. ^
      ISBN 9781405156424
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    5. ^ a b APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
    6. ^ Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
    7. ^ Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
    8. ^
      ISBN 9780715333105
      .
    9. ISBN 9781580176675
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    10. ^ a b William Bernhard Tegetmeier (editor) (1865). The Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry, authorized by the Poultry Club. London: Poultry Club.
    11. ^
      ISBN 9781119509141
      .
    12. ^ Modern Game. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Archived 20 May 2022.

    Further reading

    • Joseph Batty (1999 [1976]). Understanding Modern Game, fifth edition. Midhurst, West Sussex: Beech Publishing House.
      ISBN 9781857363135
      .


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