Standard Varieties of Chickens:

Red Pyle Games

The plumage of head and the hackle of the Red Pyle Game cock (fig. 35) varies from bright orange to chestnut; back, crimson; breast, white, laced with chestnut; body, white; wings, crimson, transversed with a white bar; tail and tail coverts, white; the head of hen is chestnut; hackle, white, edged with yellow; back, white; breast, salmon; wings, white or chestnut tinged; tail, white; shanks and feet of both cock and hen are yellow or willow. Red Pyles are similar in markings to the Black-breasted Reds, white being substituted for black.

FOR FURTHER READING...

Visit the Oklahoma State University Department of Animal Science's Poultry Breeds pages. The Old English Game page contains further information about this breed's history. The image below comes from the FeatherSite, "an on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry". The Standard Old English Game page at FeatherSite contains 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 Credit: Courtesy of Shahbazin

Please note: These links point to pages that are being served off of the Oklahoma State University's web server and off the cyborganic.net web server, which are not part of the Chickscope project. Because of this, the pages may be missing or corrupted, and control of this is generally out of the hands of the Chickscope development team.

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