Plate Series 12 breeds

Atlas of Breeds

A folio of the birds. Each plate drawn from period breed books, livestock registries, and museum type-collections — described with the vocabulary of fanciers, not the cant of the pit.

No. 006 · Plate VI

American Game · From the Spanish Main to the Carolinas

American gamefowl

Origin
Southern United States
Type
American gamefowl
Comb
Straight
Status
Vulnerable

No. 012 · Plate XII

Aseel · Mianwali · Muff · The South Indian Strain

Aseel

Origin
Punjab / South India
Type
Aseel
Comb
Pea
Status
Watch

No. 003 · Plate III

Asil · Reza · The Ancestral Game

Indian Aseel

Origin
Indian subcontinent
Type
Indian Aseel
Comb
Pea
Status
Secure

No. 014 · Plate XIV

Burmese Game · The Myanma Fighter

Burmese Game

Origin
Myanmar (Burma)
Type
Burmese Game
Comb
Pea
Status
Secure

No. 008 · Plate VIII

Malay · The Towering Game

Malay Game

Origin
Malay Peninsula / Sumatra
Type
Malay Game
Comb
Strawberry
Status
Watch

No. 010 · Plate X

Modern Game · The Victorian Aristocrat

Modern Game

Origin
England
Type
Modern Game
Comb
Single
Status
Secure

No. 005 · Plate V

Old English Game · The Carlisle and the Oxford

British landrace

Origin
England
Type
British landrace
Comb
Single
Status
Secure

No. 011 · Plate XI

Phoenix · The Longtail Descendant

European long-tail

Origin
Germany (from Japanese stock)
Type
European long-tail
Comb
Single
Status
Watch

No. 004 · Plate IV

Shamo · The Japanese Fighting Cock

Japanese Shamo

Origin
Japan (originally Siam/Thailand)
Type
Japanese Shamo
Comb
Walnut
Status
Secure

No. 009 · Plate IX

Sumatra · The Black Pheasant of the Indies

Sumatra Game

Origin
Sumatra, Indonesia
Type
Sumatra Game
Comb
Pea
Status
Watch

No. 007 · Plate VII

Thai Game · The Siamese Fighter

Thai Game

Origin
Siam (Thailand)
Type
Thai Game
Comb
Pea
Status
Secure

No. 013 · Plate XIII

Yokohama · Minohiki · The Long-Crower's Cousin

European long-tail

Origin
Germany (from Japanese Minohiki)
Type
European long-tail
Comb
Single
Status
Critical

An Illustrated Encyclopedia · Volume I

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From the Editor's desk

A note, found loose in the binding.

To the patient reader who has wandered this far —

The gamecock is a difficult bird. He is beautiful and he is brutal; he is the emblem of three continents and the shame of a dozen legislatures; he is venerated in some yards and hidden in others. The Codex tries to hold all of that at once, and probably doesn't.

This site is small on purpose. There is no comment section, no share button that demands your attention, no algorithmic recapture. There is just a folio of breeds, a chronicle of dates, a shelf of plates, and a long quiet essay about courage. If you have read this far, you are the kind of reader this Codex was written for.

The Konami code, of course, is a small prank — an old coder's joke, embedded in a 19th-century codex. We hope you smiled.

The Editors
The Gamecock Codex, in the year of our Lord MMXXVI

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