Standard
Varieties of Chickens:
Golden and Silver Duckwing Games
The Golden and Silver Duckwing Games are similar in
markings, the only difference being that the Silver
Duckwing cock (fig. 34) is white where the Golden
Duckwing is golden or straw color. In both varieties
the face, comb, wattles, and earlobes are red; the
beak, horn; breast, tail, and thighs, black; shanks
and feet, yellow. In the Golden the head of the cock
is straw color; back, golden; wing bow, golden, the
wing coverts forming a distinct black bar across the
wing. The golden points are white in the Silver
Duckwing.
FOR
FURTHER READING...
The first image below comes from the Oklahoma State
University Department of Animal Science's Poultry
Breeds pages. The second and third images are
from the FeatherSite, "an on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry". The Old English Game
page at Oklahoma and the Old English Game Bantams page at FeatherSite contain further information about this breed's
history and more images of these fowl. Clicking on
each image takes you to the page specifically about
that particular variety.
Image Credits
(from left to right):
Copyright © 1996, Oklahoma State University
Board of Regents;
Courtesy of Katie;
Courtesy of Barry Koffler
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