Malay Game

Malay Game
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk[1]: 152 
  • DAD-IS (2023): at risk/unknown[2]          
Other namesMalay
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • Standard: about 5 kg
    • Bantam: about 1.2–1.35 kg[3]: 170 
  • Female:
    • Standard: about 4.1 kg
    • Bantam: about 1.0–1.15 kg[3]: 170 
Classification
APAall other standard breeds[4]
ABAall other comb clean legged
EEyes[5]
PCGBAsian hard feather[6]
Malays, illustration from Jean Bungartz, Geflügel-Album, 1885

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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