Hatch Chicken Breed – The Most Fighting Chicken Breed Today

Hatch Chicken Breed is a breed of fighting chickens with very good fighting ability, they are no longer strange to chicken players in the Philippines as well as all over the world. This breed of chicken has made waves on large and small battle fields, and caused fear for other purebred chickens. If you want to learn about the Hatch chicken breed, follow the article below.

Origin of Hatch Chicken Breed

Hatch Bantams are like many other bantam breeds. This breed is the result of crossbreeding between Hatch and purebred American bantams. They were researched by breeder Hatch, and through many crossbreeding processes, he produced a breed of chickens with Hatch blood. 

With terrible fighting power, although small and compact in size, in terms of fighting, it is no less powerful than the Hatch breed. It can be said that this is a crossbred breed with many outstanding advantages. The chicken has many strengths such as: flying well, kicking quickly, being tough, aggressive, agile, flexible…

Characteristics of the Hatch Chicken Breed

Although it is a crossbred generation, the Hatch Chicken Breed inherits the characteristics of crossbred chicken lines such as Mike Kearny, Boston Roundhead, and Thompson Blue Legs.

Hatching Rooster

The hatch chicken breed was discovered as a revolution in breeding. Not only in America but this breed has spread all over the world. The male has an average weight, a relatively high height, and a very majestic upright posture.

The appearance of the male, the head is bright red, the eyes are black, the beak is short and triangular, and the comb is strawberry or leaf comb. The wings of the chicken are longer than the elbow, the tail is slightly curved and an-shaped. The color of the chicken feathers: black, red, burnt… The highlight of this breed of chicken is that it has very beautiful legs. The color of the legs is mainly green, sometimes there are black and yellow legs.

Hatch Hen

Hatch hens are easy to identify, you just need to look through their appearance and shape to be able to recognize them. The appearance of the hen, the head is compact, with a long and small skull, the beak is long and pointed yellow, upright, and the end is curved up high, characteristically spread. The legs have 3 typical colors: dark yellow, light yellow, and black. The personality of Hatch hens is quite aggressive, flying and jumping quite fast, especially when they are extremely aggressive when leading the flock and looking after the children.

Characteristics of hatch chickens

Possessing excellent characteristics, intelligence,e and agility in fighting. The Hatch Chicken Breed is known as a breed of chicken that is tough and has super strong kicks. The Hatch chicken line has a slow and gradual approach to fighting style, the Hatch chickens are very good at fighting with a stubborn fighting attitude and the ability to stick to the fight until death. That is why this is the breed of chicken that many cockfighters train and bring to the big fighting arenas.

However, this breed of chicken also has disadvantages such as: kicking with the head low, slow spur development, and often kicking with spurs missing before delivering deadly blows to finish off the opponent. To create good Hatch chickens, the trainers need to overcome the above disadvantages. Don’t worry, the Hatch chicken breed is quite easy to train, the trainers just need to spend time.

Good F1 hybrid Hatch chicken lines

Nowadays, the Hatch Chicken Breed is very popular in the world, so it is obvious that many Hatch variations are created. When crossbred with other chicken breeds, the F1 chickens still retain their good characteristics. The following are famous Hatch chicken breeds on the market:

Penny Hatch chicken breed

This breed was bred by breeder Sherrill Penny, they belong to the hybrid chicken line, created from many other typical chicken lines such as Ruble Hatch, Harold Brown Hatch, JD Perry Hatch, and Johnny Moore Democrat Hatch… It can be said that penny hatch chickens belong to one of the generations of chickens produced by many breeding and selection processes.

Yellow Leg Chicken Breed

This breed of chicken has a similar appearance to the Hatch chicken, they also have yellow legs. Perhaps this is the most different thing about this hybrid Hatch line compared to other hybrid Hatch lines. The main identification point is shown through the chicken’s last feathers, when distinguishing you can see a few white strands on the top.

Leiper Hatch chicken breed

This is a breed of chicken belonging to the Hatch breed, they have a relatively beautiful appearance, most of the Leiper Hatch chickens are red in color. The wings are slightly droopy, and the head and neck are upright, creating a majestic appearance. 

This breed of chicken can adapt to many different types of warm climates, they are also popular and highly appreciated in many places, especially in the Iron-Spur Cockfighting market in Southeast Asia, typically in Live Cockfighting matches at the Thomo arena in Cambodia.

Above is a summary of some knowledge about the Hatch Chicken Breed at Phtaya, the above information is all genuine sharing from experts that brothers who are passionate about playing Hatch Chicken can refer to.