Cornish Games, also known as Indian Games, are a breed mixed from the Old English Game Fowl and the Aseel from India. Small numbers of them are raised in America as a meat or show bird.

The USDA currently has a very minimal definition of the Cornish game hen; any chicken between one and two pounds in weight, slaughtered at fewer than five weeks of age, and of either sex can be ...

Breeding game chickens is like breeding racehorses. I mean, think of how many foals Secretariat sired. You can’t tell if a bird is promising the moment it hatches; you have to watch it over time.