Black-Red Partridge Modern Game

A variety of the Modern Game

Chicken · Tinted eggs · Ornamental

At a glance

Origin
United Kingdom
Scientific name
Gallus gallus domesticus
Eggs per year
~80
Egg colour
Tinted
Incubation
21 days
Broodiness
Low
Cold hardiness
Tender
Sizes
Large fowl, Bantam
Purpose
Ornamental
Purity
Pure

About the Black-Red Partridge Modern Game

The classic and original Modern Game colour: the cock carries a glossy orange-red hackle, back and saddle over a hard black breast and body, with willow-green legs and a dark beak. "Partridge" denotes the hen type, a richly pencilled brown-and-black female rather than the plain wheaten form. Together with the brown-reds, duckwings and piles, black-reds were among the first varieties standardised when the breed was built for the show bench after the 1849 cockfighting ban.

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