Black breasted, red wing old English game or Welsummer

[TameraG]

My friend had a chicken show up on her property and hatch out baby chicks. The hen looked very leggy and upright like a game chicken. When the roosters grew up, they were beautiful, and looked very similar to the black breasted red wing old English game fowl. The eggs are also the color of the old English game and not a darker brown with speckles like a welsummer egg. But the chicks look more like Welsummer chicks. I find myself thinking that they are likely a cross between a Welsummer and an old English game because old English game don’t produce many eggs and these definitely have the vigor associated with a cross. They laid all winter and they’re laying an egg every day now that summer is here and they’re older. I am going to attach some pictures with the hope that those of you that are more knowledgeable in this area than me could chime in your thoughts. I am thinking maybe a cross between an old English and perhaps a Welsummer. What do you think?

 

[TameraG]

My friend had a chicken show up on her property and hatch out baby chicks. The hen looked very leggy and upright like a game chicken. When the roosters grew up, they were beautiful, and looked very similar to the black breasted red wing old English game fowl. The eggs are also the color of the old English game and not a darker brown with speckles like a welsummer egg. But the chicks look more like Welsummer chicks. I find myself thinking that they are likely a cross between a Welsummer and an old English game because old English game don’t produce many eggs and these definitely have the vigor associated with a cross. They laid all winter and they’re laying an egg every day now that summer is here and they’re older. I am going to attach some pictures with the hope that those of you that are more knowledgeable in this area than me could chime in your thoughts. I am thinking maybe a cross between an old English and perhaps a Welsummer. What do you think?

 

[TameraG]

I found that I accidentally got one picture added to the attachments that I didn’t mean to add. It was a picture that I was showing my friend of the old English game. It is the one that has the smaller comb that’s been partially clipped. I am struggling to figure out how to delete that particular picture.

 

[Amer]

Those birds have pea combs. So they are either mixed bred or American Games.

 

[TameraG]

Those birds have pea combs. So they are either mixed bred or American Games.

Thank you

 

[Colo Annabelle]

They do look like games. Combs are wrong for Old English. The coloring Black Breasted Red, no wing in the name, is pretty close to natural wild type, that you see in red jungle fowl, so it's common in many breeds. It would be weird for a game breeder to mix with welsummer. I think you may just have some strain of game, that lays well. I have a red jungle fowl hen that lays like crazy, even in part of the winter.