Aseel

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

date: 2026-06-01

The Aseel (sometimes written Asil) is the bearded, muffed variant of the Indian gamefowl — close-feathered, hard-fleshed, and intensely game. The name is essentially a regional variant of the same Arabic-Hindustani word that gives us Asil, but in Western exhibition circles the two names have come to designate slightly different breeds.

Harrison Weir on the Asil

Sat, 01 Jan 1853 00:00:00 +0000

date: 1853-01-01

Weir’s The Poultry Book — published in two lavish volumes between 1853 and 1854 — is the first major English-language monograph on the domestic fowl, and the source from which most Victorian and Edwardian breed standards ultimately derived. His chapter on the “Aseel” (his transliteration of Asil) is the earliest detailed Western description of the breed.

Aseel on The Gamecock Codex

Aseel

Harrison Weir on the Asil