Indian Game (poultry)

This article is about the breed of chicken. For the chess opening, see Indian Defence. For games of India, see Category:Indian games.
Indian Game
Dark Indian Game
Conservation statusFAO (2007): not at risk[1]: 152 
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Distributionworld-wide
Use
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • standard: 3.6 kg[2]: 139 
    • bantam: 2.0 kg[2]: 139 
  • Female:
    • standard: 2.7 kg[2]: 139 
    • bantam: 1.5 kg[2]: 139 
Egg colourlight brown[3]: 80 
Classification
APAEnglish[4]: 13 
EEyes[5]
PCGBheavy: hard feather[6]

The Indian Game is a British breed of game chicken, now reared either for meat or show. It originated in the early nineteenth century in the counties of Cornwall and Devon in south-west England.[7][8] It is a heavy, muscular bird with an unusually broad breast; the eggs are brown.[9]: 158 

In the United States the name was changed in the early twentieth century to Cornish. A white variant, the White Cornish, was developed there at about the same time, and is much used in modern industrial chicken meat production in many parts of the world, either for cross-breeding to produce hybrid broilers, or to produce fast-growing "game hens".[10]

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