Old English Game

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The Old English Game is a British breed of domestic chicken. It was probably originally bred for cockfighting.Template:R Two different standards are recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain: Carlisle Old English Game and Oxford Old English Game.Template:R There is also an Old English Game bantam.Template:R

Characteristics

The Old English Game has many colour variants. Twenty-eight are recognised by the American Poultry Association,Template:R while the Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture lists thirty-three.Template:R In Britain, thirteen colours are recognised for the Carlisle type, and thirty for the Oxford type.Template:R

Use

Since the abolition of cock-fighting in 1849, the Old English Game has been kept primarily for show. Old English Game hens may lay about forty small tinted eggs in a year.Template:R

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