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ground colour of the plumage is a deep golden bay, each and every feather, with the exception of the 
neck hackle and true tail, being laced with either single or double rows of metalHc, glossy green-black. 
(Fig. 78A, 2, 3, 4). This lacing follows the shape of the feather, the neck hackle being glossy greenish-black, 
and the feathers of the true tail as dark as possible. 
In breeding this variety to feather points, it is best to mate up separate breeding pens for the production 
of the sexes. To breed cockerels, a Standard cock or cockerel should be used, mating him with hens of the 
correct shape and style, good shoulders, and strong in bone, with bright, sound ground colour, and with 
lacing rather heavy ; but to breed pullets, a cock with rather too much crimson in the hackles may be mated 
with hens rather lighter in ground colour and lacing than the Show hen, or a Standard coloured cock may be 
mated with one or two hens of each colour, and a fair percentage of chickens result. The latter method is 
not so certain as if separate pens are used to produce the sexes, but will answer in cases where accommo- 
dation is limited, the great drawback to the latter plan being the fact that it is much more difficult to 
breed both sexes in any fair proportion up to Standard requirements from the one pen, no matter how 
Fig. 78A.— I. Hackle Feather of Laced Cornish-Indian Game Cock. 2. Breast. 3. Back. 4. Cushion Feather of Laced 
Cornish-Indian Game Hen. 
carefully mated, as it must be remembered that the first mating is scarcely likely to produce birds of both 
se.xes of high merit, so that, where practicable at all, it will be found far better to have separate breeding 
pens to produce cockerels and pullets respectively, at the same time keeping the two strains as far apart as 
possible, recognising one as the cockerel strain, and the other as the pullet strain, though this is only 
necessary when the birds are bred for Show competition. 
In rearing Indian Game chickens bone meal should be added to the soft food once or twice a week at 
least, to promote and encourage the development of bone. A light-boned Indian Fowl looks weedy, and 
for breeding is almost useless. During dry weather, a little sulphur added to the soft food will assist 
considerably in helping them to attain their adult plumage quickly, and the cockerels should also have a little 
more stimulating diet when they are "shooting" their tails. An Indian Game chicken must be kept 
growing. Once they stop, they rarely attain any size. This variety, and also the Malay, do better on a 
larger proportion of grain food for their daily ration than most other breeds, and on this account alone are 
a breed of Poultry suitable to those who cannot spare the time required in the management of other Fowls. 
The Indian crosses well with either the Dorking, Brahma, or Langshan, the birds so bred being of extra 
.quick growth, and high-class table qualifications. In mating up pens for breeding table Poultry, the Indian 
