I looked up, red jungle fowl, and they do very much resemble them with the exception of their comb. It appears that they have a single comb, and these have a pea comb.
Unfortunately, my friend, who has the chickens does not know what breed as it just showed up at her house one day and hatched out baby chicks in her backyard.
Someone insightfully pointed out that they had peacombs. I am wondering if those peacombs and the coloring could suggest which game fowl they are. Someone had suggested that they might be Welsummers but Welsummers have a single comb and dark speckled eggs and they don’t stand so upright.
The reason I am hatching out these eggs is that I was extremely impressed with the intelligence of the breed and the egg laying capacity of hens. They may be such good layers because their owner pampers them with home-cooked meals specifically for them and gives them mealworms, and all kinds of...
I am about to hatch out some eggs and I’m not sure what kind of game fowl they are. Some have yellow legs and some have white. The hens are very slender, leggy and upright. The eggs laid are an off-white color. The roosters are beautiful but obviously don’t get along very well with each other...
I found that I accidentally got one picture added to the attachments that I didn’t mean to add. It was a picture that I was showing my friend of the old English game. It is the one that has the smaller comb that’s been partially clipped. I am struggling to figure out how to delete that...
My friend had a chicken show up on her property and hatch out baby chicks. The hen looked very leggy and upright like a game chicken. When the roosters grew up, they were beautiful, and looked very similar to the black breasted red wing old English game fowl. The eggs are also the color of the...