Since 1928
Indian Game
The broad, low, immensely powerful fowl of Cornwall — in the Juul family since my grandfather's first imports.
My Danish grandfather imported his first Indian Game from the United Kingdom in 1928, birds bred out of the great Cornish yards and shipped by steamer to South Africa. Only the strongest arrived fit to breed, and from that small foundation he built a line suited to the African sun.
The breed is judged on width. A correct Indian Game stands short and thick-set, with a wide, well-rounded breast, powerful thighs set wide apart, a broad skull, thick curved beak and short, close-fitting feather that lies hard against the body.
I breed them on a small scale, cull hard and out-cross only when the line asks for it. Nearly a century on, those birds still walk our yards — a piece of British breeding history preserved in South Africa by a Danish family.
Aseel strains
Indian Game · Standard
1896 Standard of Perfection
The original 1896 Standard of Perfection for Indian Game, presented with a visual aid to the points of type.
Read the standard (PDF)