Dark Indian Game
A variety of the Indian Game
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Meat
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About the Dark Indian Game
The Dark is the original and defining colour of the Indian Game, and the standard against which the breed's massive, broad-breasted conformation was fixed. The female carries chestnut-mahogany ground with neat black double lacing on each feather, while the male is a lustrous black with brilliant beetle-green sheen and bay markings. Genetically it lacks the dominant gene that lightens the other varieties, giving the deepest pigment. As with all Indian Game, it is a poor layer of small tinted eggs kept for its exceptional meat type, now a priority rare breed.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 80
- Purpose
- Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus