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    Breeding larger survival chickens?

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    Cross-breeding for egg production

    Good looking boy 👍
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    Cross-breeding for egg production

    Is your big rooster a RIR as well? Are you going to use a younger cockeral that's half wild game instead of your big one or will he live out his days with your flock?
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    Cross-breeding for egg production

    Might be the stress of the other rooster trying to steal his flock causing him to act poorly? Wild flocks only have one dominant rooster. If you send young cockerals there they'd either get driven out or killed as they mature....unless they're stronger then the dominant rooster and take over the...
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    Cross-breeding for egg production

    The game fowl are pretty close to jungle fowl, more so then a heritage breed like a Sussex or RIR. The game fowl were bred for performance ie stamina, aggression, courage etc so health would of been part of it as a fit and healthy bird would do better in a cock fight. Fayoumi are definitely an...
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    Cross-breeding for egg production

    I'm not sure they give much consideration to health in the intensive egg production world, it's more about profit then anything. They cull hens at 18mths and after buying some of those culls they're lucky to live past 3yo. I've done a fair bit of reading since I originally posted this and my...
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    Starting a new feral flock of jungle fowl hybrids in the distant future.

    Look forward to seeing the results 👍
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    G’Day 😁

    G'day from sunny QLD 👍 Welcome to BYC.
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    Starting a new feral flock of jungle fowl hybrids in the distant future.

    I just did a forum search for "landrace" and this popped up so I'm commenting to jump on the thread and see how it all works out for you 👍
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    Inherited rooster crow.

    Yeah true. I've heard scrub turkeys can be pretty savage towards chickens as well.
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    Inherited rooster crow.

    Ah OK cool thank you. I wasn't sure how the crowing passed on. I've only had one rooster so far and he was a heritage cross of some sort and was deep and loud but he didn't have any other roosters around to teach him so I thought it must of been physiological.
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    Inherited rooster crow.

    I might join that forum as well to see if there's any about. I'd love a Grey rooster to start a free range flock. I would love to see more breeds here but am happy we have strict bio-security. I've seen people cross-breeding pheasants and chickens, could that be done with scrub turkeys or mallee...
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    Inherited rooster crow.

    Thank you. I did see the laughing chicken and long crow when I was searching for Greys. I think you're right about size as I'm sure different sized lungs would give a different pitch and volume. The length and "tune" would be hard-wired into the brain though I'd imagine? I'm going to have to...
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    Inherited rooster crow.

    I've only ever seen Reds advertised but that's not to say there's not more here. Surprising being so close to SE Asia we didn't end up with more of the breeds like Ayam Cemani, Sumatra, Junglefowl here. Are they impossible to import with our bio-security laws?
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    Inherited rooster crow.

    Thank you. I'm still pretty much a newbie when it comes to genetics and breeding.
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