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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    I get that…it’s how nature works. The problem is that nature works over millennia so by letting nature do the selection it will take many human lifetimes to get there. A good example is Rex. You like him a lot but he might be riddled with heterozygous genes. If he breeds for 10 years as your...
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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    The reason to distinguish between F1, F2, F3, etc. is that if you keep breeding to those early birds you don’t concentrate homozygosity. You want to pick the best of the next generation for breeding and eliminate the older generation so you can move forward. Also, if Rex has a lot of...
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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    I’ve also used Asian game (O Shamo) to add body size to my project birds. For me I absolutely don’t want the low tails as I’m trying to add in long tails and I want the tails held up off of the ground instead of them dragging. So far it’s added increased body size and egg size but most birds are...
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    Show off your roosters

    I’m excited about this little cockerel from my purple poultry project:
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    Iridescent feathers

    Leakage has been a real battle for me.
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    Iridescent feathers

    Here’s a little cockerel with color that seems to stand out among the others his age:
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    Just Bought a GQF 1202 Sportsman Cabinet....Need Help

    If I recall correctly it was the turner motor. It’s been a few years since I fixed it so I barely remember.
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    Let’s Talk About Bird Flu

    Yep. It follows the main flyways of migratory waterfowl. While it may look like the whole country is inna flyway the reality is some areas are much more congested with migratory waterfowl than others. Where I live in Chattanooga, TN we aren’t in a major flyway when you look at actual bird...
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    It's time for Nicalandia to create his own breed of Chickens

    Check out the comb that appeared on one of my cockerels in my breeding project. He’s quite young so it will be interesting to see if it ends up shaped like a Green Jungle Fowl at maturity. Right now it’s pretty darn close to what you’d see on an immature Green male. No Green Jungle Fowl in this...
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    Pumpkin Hulsey Color Genetics?

    I think that’s true but the only Pumpkin I had I found dead in the cage with his toes eaten off. He was in a quarantine cage and I think some predator got him freaked out enough to bang himself against the cage until he was dead or injured and whatever it was ate his toes off where they poked...
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    Iridescent feathers

    Actually this bird is a bit crazy and wild but with enough takes I can get a video like this where it seems relaxed.
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    Iridescent feathers

    I’ve got this new bird that has feathers that are almost slightly cupped? Really good at showing the iridescent color and very shiny. The shade of magenta could be better/deeper but the shine and increased viewing angle is great. Plus this bird is really abnormally soft and smooth feeling. I’ll...
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    Topic of the Week - Keeping Water from Freezing

    I listen to a poultry podcast that mentioned the salt water bottle in the water bucket thing and it’s too bad they don’t google things to fact check themselves.
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    Topic of the Week - Keeping Water from Freezing

    I have a plastic 55 gallon barrel in an insulated box that has a 40’ pipe heater wrapped around it. Then I have a PVC pipe coming out of that and it goes through 6 pens. The PVC pipe has a pipe heater on it with a larger PVC pipe over that (so the pipe heater tape is sandwiched in between) and...
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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    Maybe not rats but cats are fantastic at catching mice. I would think any cat that would take in a squirrel would take a rat too but the only time I had rats I used heavy-duty poison because their population exploded and they were much worse than mice would ever be.
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