Black henny assel X english oxford

My grand dad kept fowl that looked alot like this , most of his were not single combed but a variety of types , they were all fit for purpose !

Mean looking fowl. Probably closer to the original Aussie Pits than most of what you see around the showpens.

nice bird mate looks hard

As the original comment says, "Interesting from a breed point of view". I have just sat reading comments on the OEG page, where guys have been comparing two types of fowls and calling them the same thing. This is not the case with pit game, there is one type only! I have been looking at this breed in our back yard while I was growing up for over 40 years and I cannot remember seeing anything that looked like this. Please keep the Pit Game gallery for true to type birds, so those who are passionate about them can enjoy the breed as they are.

the standard was written to include at least 3 types, not that its often seen in the show pen.

In your own words, "Not an Australian Pit, but interesting from a breed make up point of view". I agree, however there is only one type in Pit Game, there may be variations consistant with there make up from asiatic and OEG blood lines. But regardless of these variations the type and shape should be the same.

gingermuff, i think this bird is probably fairly close to the original colonials and personally would be happen to own him. To me the pit standard is fairly simple. Heres the breeds in him, must be able to perform. Your not restricted by the breed characteristics of other standards eg OEG

Gingermuff , the australian pit fowl is a mongrel breed made up from a multitude of various types of pit fowl and were bred for a single purpose (short heel).....There is no one type ! The cock pictured is closer to the old aussie pit fowl than any thing seen in the past 3o years in the show ring. Men such as fred and alf saywell , pincher harris, tibby turnbul , joe burge etc and the list could go on all kept fowl that were of a similar stamp . The saywell,s were old men back in the 70's when I first remember them and they were son's of a generation previous of sportsmen and the fowl they kept were of a similar stamp , as were the fowl of booza howarth , the prattley's from the central west were the the aussie pit standard was formulated by way of the pearsons and co , while marshal is credited with the standard , he played but small part, and that standard is essentially the oxford standard which is the best written description of a steel fighting cock in the world in my opinion . I seen the demise of the old aussie pit cock , my family bred them and than followed more competitive fowl as did all the others as long heels took ahold in this country....gingermuff you would be lucky to find anything even remotely close to th old style aussie pits , you seem to want to take exception to the cock pictured in this post , yet except pit bantams (?) when there is no such breed

Pegawl, there is no such breed as the Pit Bantam, that is a bit harsh and thankfully a matter of opinion. If you are interested in exhibition poultry, you could have a look at a few show results over the last few years. A Pit Bantam Male won bird of show at the Melbourne Royal last year. Pit Bantam females have also won bird of show at the Far North Coast Game Show, Lismore twice in the past four years. That is a specialist show for only game fowl, I should say exhibition game fowl. Not bad for a breed that doesn't exsist. As for the breeders mentioned I am aware of most of them, one of them even purchased large pits from my Uncle on occasions. Then again they never turned up at any shows either, he must have just liked them in his back yard to look at. I do not take exception to your view or anyone elses opinion. I simply commented on this bird and the description put on by pearl eye, "Not an Australian Pit". If you feel so strongly about this birds type, maybe you could have it put on again under the heading "True old style fighting Pit". But from my opinion, I wouldn't waste any feed on him.