I'll have to read up on roundhead american. This cockerel is from a crossing of my paki asil over his original mates and their daughters and daughters daughters so on. So its possible for any american blood to have shown itself.
Thanks for the info and helping me narrow down what may be...
I live in Pa but spent most of last winter working in upstate NY and our winters are similar. I have a lot of deciduous and evergreen cover on my property for the birds. I started my flock with gamefowl lines and when I can prefer to use gamefowl, but I have crossed in cubalaya hens, Sumatran...
Great project, thats essentially my goal with my ferals too. I have a couple Cubalaya crosses that do very well in this type of environment. I also tried a few RJF Asil crosses this spring that have been doing really well. The chicks could make it up in the trees within the first week.
X2 on the black coloration. I've seen the least amount of night and daytime predation on my feral blacks out of any coloration. You have a great conversation going about your cross ideas. I'd love to see pics along the way. I've also had the pleasure of working with several breeds from...