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  1. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    Thankyou for your comment! That is exactly the kind of experience i am looking to hear about! its funny you mention the Icies, because since my last post i had gone ahead and reserved 15 of them from a somewhat local fellow over in VT, i also reserved some swedish flowers, and was planning to...
  2. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

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  3. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    thankyou for the encouragement. its actually looking like it may just be half games half icelandics, which are not going to be up there on the scale, but they should be hardy and proliferate... probably use a game cock as the one cock. for now that seems to be the plan. i know i can get EE, and...
  4. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    good points, thankyou. im still not set on anything yet, if these iclandics pull through i may get some of those, i know i can get EE from a friend in maine, and i can get buckeyes from a friend south of me, and i may still be able to get some doms, if i want javas i can get them but they have...
  5. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    ah, strikes again... i had been spelling bred as through it were baked...
  6. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    my wife read through it too after i typed it, as she had wondered what the heck i sat and spent typing for so long on a chicken forum was...
  7. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    sandhill is sold out, but i did find some folks over the border in vt that have some icelandics still waiting to hear back from them though, they are about what i would be paying for the american games though...
  8. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    thanks for catching that, errrr.... that should have been week.
  9. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    Thanks, im glad to hear your experience, i dont want to spend the money on these and them be a silly mistake. what strain, breeder did you use? what chickens have you settled on that you like?
  10. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    well, maybe i will just go for the games though i need to double check my budget and make sure i can fit them in. at this point i am not too worried about a skinny bird, if i like these, i might eventually get some hens that are a touch bigger with traits i like and let the rooster breed, and...
  11. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    bump?
  12. MrSmokey

    american game fowl for near self sustaining meat and egg production? or is this crazy?

    Moderators, if i have this in the wrong section, i apologize, i thought for a while exactly where to fit this, and put it here because i think the topic largely pertains to chicken behavior. alrighty, i have been a bit all over the place on trying to figure out what breed to use here on our...
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