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I, on the other hand, like breeding pheasants and crosses. I once bred (Reeves male X Ringneck female) hybrids. The female hybrid was small and never layed eggs. The two male hybrids were at least partially fertile and I mated them back to Ringneck hens (I had no Reeves hens). I got a good group...

I am retired and living with my daughter and her husband in Brooks, Alberta. They plan to sell their house and move to an acreage where we could have some small livestock, a big garden, a pond, etc.. I have always had chickens, even as a kid. Whenever I live someplace where I can keep some, I...

No such thing as not troublesome guineas - at least in most cases.. I did have a pair of lavender guineas that I brought to Laos from Bangkok and they lived amicably with the chickens. Got lots of young from them. My last pair were really troublesome and they had to be moved to their own pen...

To philter4 I think a big problem is small population size. if you let the population of hybrids expand naturally, with no selection, you would soon have a large and variable gene pool. Some of these birds could mate and produce fertile, vigorous offspring and they could in turn produce vigorous...

If our kept a pair of Grey Jungle Fowl for 5 years, why did you not breed them? I would not like to supply people with chickens just to keep as pets, but no breeding. It is a waste of good stock and does not multiply the breed in captivity.

Hi again, Centrarchid. I was thinking about this game hen I had in Peru. I had a small piece of land in the Oxapampa area of Peru - up in the mountains. I had a dog adopt me and she had pups. The custom in that area is if you give someone a dog, they give you a chicken. This guy gave me a black...

Wow!!! A real battlefield. I am surprised you have any birds left. I couldn't do that. I appreciate my birds too much and like to see the results of breeding. I would get too depressed. I admire your tenacity. What survival rate do you have - of nests and chicks hatched? Successful nests %...

Oisin: it depends on the jungle fowl stock you have acquired. If they have been raised in isolation, never vaccinated against common poultry diseases, etc., you may have a problem. Are all the poultry running free in the barn? What about roosters? Will your jungle fowl cock have to fight larger...

Centrarchid: I like your comments from extensive experience. I like the way you do things. BUT: I would not like my birds to nest in the wild here in Laos. Place is teeming with ants. Pipped eggs are a good meal for the ants. We also have snakes that eat eggs and small prey. Chicks riaised in...

Red Junglefowl are smart. If there is a coop around, with nice basket nests with grass or straw - they will use that. If they have no housing, they will probably find a nest if you are giving them a lot of cover. My rooster was trying to convince his hen to nest naturally and kept calling her...

Hi, Good research. I have seen some parts, but not the chart/graph. I have searched for breeds that are of the Indian Game/Thai Game type and therefore may have aome green genes in them: Madagascar Game Fowl Asils/Aseels (India) Burmese Game Fowl Thai Game Fowl Malays (Malaysia) Indonesian...

I was checking out breeds on Feathersite. There is a picture of a male Rapanui fowl that looks like it may have neck feathers similar to a Green Junglefowl male. I will send you a list of breeds that occur in the Pacific Rim - western, and Western South America and maybe you can locate hens from...

When you google "Thai Gamecock photos" you will get quite a large sampling. I don't know if they are all really Thai. The best gular lappet and interesting comb is: www.shutterstock.com 262164488. The fact that this type of gamecock is found in Southern Asia and all through Southeast Asia is...

If you read my previous observations, you will see why I feel that there is a possibility that they might be descended from a Green Junglefowl cross. A possibiity only.

In the video noted above, the Green Junglefowl cock is very nervous. Obviously because of the cameraman. If it was only his usual keeper, he would have been much tamer and cooperative. Chickens easily recognize people. Some photos of Thai Gamecocks. You can see the gular lappet and no double...

Thanks for the video reference. I had already watched one where they inserted several hens into the rooster's cage one after another. Interesting. Reminds me of the Taiwanese method of producing "mule ducks". I will attach part of an article from Feathersite. It is quite detailed on the care...

I think you could try more than one hen, but I would not introduce them at different times. Put the hens with him at the same time. Do not use older hens as they would be more aggressive than young hens or pullets. The best would be hens that have not been with another rooster, but want to mate...

Centrarchid - what I found with my hybrid pheasants was a population of 1st backcross birds that had very poor egg production, fertility, embryo survival, and hatchability. Our facilities and labor (a large pheasant production facility hatching over 100,000 ringnecks per year) had smaller...

Chickens are vulnerable to loss of fertility through inbreeding so that could be a cause of reduced fertility over the generations. Do as much flock mating as possible with as many roosters and hens as you can. The Saipan Junglefowl are Indian Game in appearance so that might indicate a...