page_title: Asil chicken
section_title: Reza Asil
hierarchical_section_title: Asil chicken / Varieties / Reza Asil
caption_attribution_description: English: Chickens, Breed Asil, Type Reza Asil, cock and two hens, colours black, wheaten, black-breasted black-red
context_page_description: The Asil or Aseel is a breed of chicken originating from Pakistan subcontinent
  It is famous in Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil nadu and in Pakistan’s Punjab area. In general this Fowl is found throughout Southeast Asia, such as Shamo and Thai Game. The breed is generally unstandardised in South Asia and India, but popularity has increased in the western world in recent times with the breed standardised in the British, Australian and American standards.
context_section_description: Height: exactly Up to 14.5 inches tall up to shoulder button.
  Weight: Maximum weight for the hens is 1.8 kg, max weight for the cocks is 2.7 to 3 kg.
  This type is standardized by the Asian Hardfeather Society in the UK and is seen at shows throughout the UK, but is quite rare.
  This group of Asil reached worldwide popularity due to books and articles written by gamefowl experts such as Herbert Atkinson, Siran and Paul Deraniyagala from Sri Lanka and Carlos Finsterbusch from Chile. The Reza Asil family according to the old (Western) gamefowl literature is subdivided into following strains: (Amir) Ghan (Dark-Red), Sonatol (Light-Red), (Siyah) Rampur (Black), Kalkatiya (Kaptan) (Speckled-Reds) and Jawa (Duckwing). All these strains are identified by their specific colour, these colours do not necessarily correspond with the area where the birds come from.
  In colonial times other colours such as whites, spangles, golden, etc. were regarded as inferior. At present day the "classic" strains and names given mentioned by Atkinson are more or less forgotten. The native people in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka only know the Reza-type Asil by their local names.
caption: A Reza Asil rooster and two hens
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