Editing American Game (section)

== History ==

The American Game was bred for [[cockfighting]]. The full-size ("large fowl") American Game is not recognized by the [[American Poultry Association]], which in 2009 recognized the American Game Bantam in ten colors. The American Game is not among the fifty-three chicken breeds reported by the [[National Animal Germplasm Program]] of the [[USDA Agricultural Research Service]] to the [[DAD-IS]] database of the [[FAO]],{{r|dad}} nor is it recognized by the [[Entente Européenne d'Aviculture et de Cuniculture]]{{r|ee}} or by the [[Poultry Club of Great Britain]].{{r|pcgb}} In 2020 its [[conservation status]] was listed by the [[Livestock Conservancy]] as "study";{{r|albc2}} in 2021 it was no longer listed.{{r|albc3}}

Some stock has been exported to the United Kingdom; in 2002 there were fewer than a hundred birds there.{{r|dad2}}

=== American Game Bantam ===

The [[Bantam (poultry)|bantam]] version of the breed does not derive from the original large fowl. It was created in [[New Jersey]] in the 1940s by a breeder named Frank Gary. He [[cross-bred]] the wild [[Red Jungle Fowl]] with fighting bantams of the type known at the time as "pit game".{{r|ekarius|page=106}} The American Game Bantam was listed in the yearbook of the American Bantam Association from 1950,{{r|aba}} and was admitted to the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 2009.{{r|apa}}