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
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