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That breeding is what you are calling terrorfowl?Half-Liege, half-Wahl aseel.
The look great, better IMO than the pure aseels.
Do you have any of these terrorfowl crossed with your cracker line?
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That breeding is what you are calling terrorfowl?Half-Liege, half-Wahl aseel.
That breeding is what you are calling terrorfowl?
The look great, better IMO than the pure aseels.
Do you have any of these terrorfowl with your cracker line?
The thing is…disease really comes from agriculture/domestication/humans living in societies. Sure…there are natural wild diseases but generally those are either mild or they burn out quickly. Generally the diseases that we have in humans and livestock comes from people and domestic animals living in high concentrations for thousands of years. These diseases either spread around these human or animal populations or they mutate and jump species in agriculture.And that’s one of the maddening things. The outcrossing for vigor thwarts my attempts to tighten up the traits through line-breeding.
I currently have Indo out on free range to breed to his 3-way-cross daughters. Will the chicks be as vigorous as their mothers? Or will I have to outcross for another generation before I bring them back to Indo to tighten up?
Wow he’s super pretty, and the turkey’s tail looks like a tin can lolView attachment 3733199
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This is Black Eyed Pea. So named by my wife because of his dark eyes. I’ve probably got a pic of him younger some pages back. He is the only one of about 100 gen 3 terrowfowl to not show signs of contracting Marek’s and is the only one to survive 2023. He has grown up free range. He crows but does not top hens. His wings are large and he freely tree roosts, unlike Indo who can but won’t. I have prepared a coop for him and will attempt to pen him this weekend with one of the three way cross hens.
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Indo and Sherman.
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Sherman and some of the Liege hens.
I decided to keep the Crackers and half-Crackers cooped. I’ll update the threads on those projects.
How long do you give them the coconut oil.I want to revisit this. I have tried this method recently in Azog’s coop, which again is made up of 3 Liege x aseel pullets and 2 fayoumi x Hatch American gamefowl pullets. Since giving the birds a heavy dose of unrefined coconut oil mixed in a day’s worth of feed in their feed trough, the 5 hens have produced 4-5 eggs a day, every day of the week, except maybe once a week I’ll get 3. I dosed the coconut oil sometime in late February or early March. Since then, I’ve filled my incubators twice (44 egg capacity between the two) and sent over 6 dozen hatching eggs of the same to friends. I have 2 dozen more on the shelf laid last few days.
Coincidence? Maybe. I am tending to think not. The pullets represent unrelated sets of genetics, none known to be good layers. So now I’ve dosed all my birds around the farm. Everyone definitely looks better. Even Lanky, who always has a pale face to varying degrees, is now rosy red. So red almost all the white is gone off his ear.
I am also dosing apple cider vinegar into their plastic waterers and rotating the waterers so that on some days the birds are getting straight water out of metal waterers and ACV water out of plastic waterers on other days.
I would invite others to try the unrefined coconut oil in a closed flock of mediocre layers to see if it appears to boost egg production.
Just for a day or two. But I dose it heavily.How long do you give them the coconut oil.
Hi I’m looking for a pair of greysReds are by far the easiest followed by Greys, then Ceylons and by far the hardest are Greens. That’s also pretty much the order of how much cold they can take. The Greens need a special diet but not the others.
Here’s a 50% Grey:
I’m looking for a grey pairI haven't read the whole thread, so this may now be irrelevant. But my experience is a big hen often produces big offspring out of a small rooster. The hen sets the size more than the male.