Shamo or Ko-Shamo is a breed of chicken

Chicken

The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...

 of Japan

Japan

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 which was originated in Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

. The name "Shamo" was a corruption of "Siam" during the early Edo period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....

 but has been selectively bred for several hundred years and is very different from the original stock. Shamo in reality is a strain of the Asil (Kaura), taken to Siam (Thailand) and Taiwan and from there to Japan. Its real place of origin is Sindh, Pakistan (formerly part of Hind or Hindustan or India) and secondary place of origin is present day India (Hyderabad Dakkan and Rampure). This breed is used for naked heeled cockboxing in Japanese cockfights, where it is still legal. It is also bred all over the world for its show quality. Ko-shamo is mixture of O-shamo with small legged breeds.

• O-Shamo (Large Shamo, 大軍鶏)
• Chu-Shamo (Medium Shamo, 中軍鶏)
• KO-Shamo (Small Shamo, 小軍鶏)
• Nankin-Shamo (Nankin
  Odawara, Kanagawa
  is a city located in western Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 198,466 with a population density of 1,740 persons per km² . The total area was .-Geography:...
  
  Shamo, 南京軍鶏)

External links

• O-Shamo (in Japanese)
• Chu Shamo (in Japanese)
• Ko Shamo (in Japanese)