Malay Game

The Malay Game is a breed of game chicken. It is among the tallest breeds of chicken, and may stand over 90 cm (36 inches) high.: 158 

Malay Game
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk: 152 
  • DAD-IS (2023): at risk/unknown          
Other namesMalay
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • Standard: about 5 kg
    • Bantam: about 1.2–1.35 kg: 170 
  • Female:
    • Standard: about 4.1 kg
    • Bantam: about 1.0–1.15 kg: 170 
Classification
APAall other standard breeds
ABAall other comb clean legged
EEyes
PCGBAsian hard feather

The Malay is bred principally in Europe, and in Australia and the United States. It was derived, partly in Devon and Cornwall in south-west England, from birds imported from the Indian subcontinent: 158  or South-east Asia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, when large birds of this type were widespread in northern India, in Indonesia and in the Malay Peninsula.

The Malay was the first chicken breed to be bantamised; a dwarf version of the standard-sized breed was created at the turn of the twentieth century.: 169 

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