This vintage book contains a complete guide to old English game fowl, being a treatise on their history, description, management, breeding, and feeding. This detailed and comprehensive book contains a wealth of useful and practicable information, and is highly recommended for modern keepers and breeders. The chapters of this book include: “Origin and History”, “The Revival of Old English Game in the Show Pen”, “The Points of Game Fowls”, “The Different Breeds and Colours”, “The Sport of Cocking”, “The Useful Properties of Old English Game”, “Management and Mating of the Breeding Stock”, “Sitting, Hatching, Rearing”, etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on shooting wildfowl.

This special re-print edition of Atkinson's book "The Old English Game Fowl" is a historical guide to the breeding and keeping of Game Fowl Chickens by one of its greatest historic authorities. Written in 1896 during a period when the breeding and fighting of Game Fowls was still a popular underground sport and the Game Fowl began to rise in the exhibition hall, this classic text on Game Fowl contains a treasure trove of information on the breeding and keeping of the Old English Game Fowl. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background. This book is presented as part of large series of educational material on the history and raising of numerous chicken breeds. The material presented herein contains information on the sport of cock fighting and is intended to be strictly for educational purposes with the purpose of enlightening Game Fowl breeders about the history of their breed. Publication of the material is neither an endorsement, nor a criticism.

Excerpt from The Old English Game Fowl: Its History, Description, Management, Breeding and Feeding In writing this little work on "Old English Game," it has been my endeavour to describe the birds for the benefit of those fanciers and beginners who are not yet fully conversant with them. I am not for one moment supposing that any work such as the present will be of much value to "Old Hands," but if it causes the true Game Fowl to be better known and more widely kept, and is of any assistance to the poultry fancier about to take up the breed, it will have attained its object. I have received some of the most interesting information on "Hennies," &c., from a gentleman well known under his nom de plume of "Game Cock," whose kindness I take this opportunity to acknowledge. I may add that had I not been frequently asked to write something of this kind by several fanciers, this monograph would probably never have appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.