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Other names | Malay |
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APA | all other standard breeds[4] |
ABA | all other comb clean legged |
EE | yes[5] |
PCGB | Asian hard feather[6] |
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The Malay Game is a breed of game chicken. It is among the tallest breeds of chicken, and may stand over 90 cm (36 inches) high.[7]: 158
The Malay is bred principally in Europe,[5] and in Australia and the United States.[2] It was derived, partly in Devon and Cornwall in south-west England,[8] from birds imported from the Indian subcontinent[7]: 158 or South-east Asia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, when large birds of this type were widespread in northern India, in Indonesia and in the Malay Peninsula.[9]
The Malay was the first chicken breed to be bantamised; a dwarf version of the standard-sized breed was created at the turn of the twentieth century.[3]: 169
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