Henny Old English Game
A variety of the Old English Game
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Ornamental
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About the Henny Old English Game
The henny (or hennie) is unusual in plumage genetics rather than colour: the cock is hen-feathered, carrying the rounded, sheen-free feathering of a female in hackle, saddle and tail instead of the male's long pointed sickles. Recognised in the Oxford standard, this hen-cock trait — caused by extra conversion of androgen to oestrogen in the skin — is a historic curiosity of Old English Game once prized in Wales and Cornwall.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 100
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus