Modern game bantam wheaten

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Upload pictures of your birds [? Click here add details and photos and complete your listing. Get Your Modern Gear:. Upload Pictures or Graphics optional [? Click here to see the rest of the form and complete your listing. Close Help Entering your listing is easy to do. Close Help Do you have some pictures to add? Home » Chicken Breeds. Eggs: Tinted. Weight: Cock: 3. Hen: 2. Bantam: Cock: — g. Useful to Know: Modern Game Bantams will tame easily, making excellent pets and are an unusual addition to the garden with their tall, slender looks that will not scratch as much as other breeds.

Photo courtesy of Rupert Stephenson. Modern Game Chickens originate in Great Britain. They came about thanks to the ban on cockfighting in because Game Fowl breeders started showing their birds in competitions instead.

As the years went by, the show scene made certain characteristics more desirable: taller birds and hard feathering were required if an exhibitor were to win one of the top prizes. By the s, the Old English Game name was being used by some. A Modern Game Club had been formed, and some birds were exchanging hands for large sums of money. Since they were purely an exhibition breed that was fetching high prices, newcomers could not afford them, and they were not productive, laying few eggs.

They would have cost breeders a lot to keep at a time of food shortages and hardship. By the time of the Second World War, Modern Game chickens were in very few hands and believed to have been extinct even though many had been exported to Europe and America.

Thanks to a German breeder Paul Hohmann who received some hatching eggs from America in the s and started breeding in numbers and recreating many of the colour varieties we have in Europe today. Modern Game Bantams began to appear in the s and by the early s like their large counterparts had evolved into the type of birds we see today.

Their numbers did not suffer like their large counterparts during the First World War as they were far cheaper to keep, consuming less feed. Photo Rupert Stephenson. In addition to the Modern Game club, many smaller clubs appeared in Britain, catering for some of the colour varieties such as Brown-Red and the Pile.

At the Second World War outbreak, these clubs, like many others, suspended their activities and never reopened their doors but were replaced by The Modern Game Bantam Club in , which later became The Modern Game Club covering both large and bantam sizes. Today Modern Game bantams remain a favourite and are far more popular than the large size. Modern Game are slow to mature and not terribly hardy, so adequate shelter is needed during colder weather.

The following books are available. Bantam: Cock: —. Origin: Cornwall, England. Eggs: 60 — 90 tinted. Weight: Cock:. Origin: Great Britain. Bantam Cock: g, Hen: g.