Modern Game

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

date: 2026-06-01

The Modern Game is the bird of the exhibition hall — bred, since about 1850, for type alone. Where the Old English Game retains the working shape of the cockpit bird, the Modern Game has been stretched, refined, exaggerated, and polished into a creature of show-bench perfection: tall, slim, long-legged, tight-feathered, narrow-bodied, fierce of eye, with a head held high and a tail carried low.

Old English Game

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

date: 2026-06-01

The Old English Game (OEG) is the bird of the British cockpit. It is, in a meaningful sense, the original gamecock of the modern Western world — the landrace from which the American, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and most Latin American gamefowl ultimately derive.

British on The Gamecock Codex

Modern Game

Old English Game