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Chickens are completely domestic. You are right in how evolution is at play, however, the evolutionary force is not based on eggs crushing to weight, it's solely human intervention and selective breeding for various traits. If someone spends billions of dollars in an industry where a JG were to...

It probably depends on the rooster. My big boy only crows when he hears car doors in the morning, and then a few times during the day. LOL I don't even notice it, but it's because I've heard it continuously for years.

I only have 4 leghorns and 2 JG hens with the big guy. He has his favorites, and they are the ones that go bald. I'd think 14 is more than enough.

LOL. Pictures can be deceiving. I'm only 5'2". He is hard to weigh, but with me holding him on a human scale and subtracting my weight, he's somewhere in the 14/15lb area. Some day I might try to kennel him and weighing him on a fishing scale. LOL. He is a fenceless free ranged on acerage bird...

1) Mine is pretty laid back, but they are powerful birds. I had two JG roos, and one day they decided they hated each other so badily one brother had to be put down. Not a mean bone to us people types and they were getting along just fine for about 8? Months. Mine were from Wynette. 2) I have...

Just thought I'd share my birds since I haven't been on in so long... and it's lunch time. LOL. Sorry if I posted these in the pasts. My memory fails me at times. Then some lesser quality pictures with bird profiles.

I find it's really the literal age of an animal that determines how tough they are. Regardless of breed, a 8 week old bird is about as an 8 week old bird, while a 3 year old stew bird, be it a silkie bantam, a leghorn, or large bird, is a tough as a 3 year old bird.

Any bird over about 6 months is going to be tough... Any bird over about 4 months is going to be way tougher than any 6 week old store bird if that is the reference. They'll still be stew hens, just real big ones. LOL! I LOVE my giants too! As a meat bird, I had an 8 month old boy that was...

Handling makes a huge difference in birds. I gave two leghorns of of of my batches to a little girl who held them all day and night. Well, when her mate got eaten by a coon 4 years later and I got the other back, it was the fattest calmest leghorn I have ever seen. All mine were raised as...

Oh, don't worry if she stops laying, most greatly decrease their laying at like 3-4 years old, with maybe one or two here and there, but they will live on to eat all your feed for the next decade provided something doesn't get-em first. LOL

Oh I can't wait till I get some replacement chicks this year!!! Fuzzyness glaore! Oh, LOL, Sara! My dad found the first JG egg on the floor too. Apparently siblings had the same idea about what to do with their eggs. I need to ask my parents if subsequent eggs have been in the nest or not...

Think most keep things as close as possible to the floor for their JG's so they don't hurt themselves jumping down. That said, my nest boxes and coop are not JG specific so my two nest boxes are one on top of the other, with the bottom one being like 14 inches up. They mostly use that lower one...

All I can say about concrete is that it will last a long time and you probably want to seal it for moisture reasons. I don't have a concrete floor in my coop, but chickens love to poop all over concrete walk ways and car port floor. Scrubbing poop off the sealed concrete in the carport is easier...

Could they have sent you a completely wrong order of a different breed?

Billjr, I'm so jealous of your splashes :p. I want one! Oh, and Sara! I got my first JG egg today! My dad said he found it on the floor of the coop as if it just fell out when she was eating. LOL Spring is coming!

I can say my two JG roo's don't give me eye contact, but starting young I never let them have a chance. I like to take lunges and random grabs at the roosters to show them who's the boss. I would however never trust any rooster in the presence of a child as any unfixed male can crack. That...

I would guess the best way is to compare your birds to the SOP, or standards for each breed. That said, depending on where they came from, such as a hatchery, lines can be blurred. Just because a bunch of birds do not match a breed description, does not mean they are not that breed. As for...

So you'll have to wait for a real JG expert to chime in... as I'm not one of those, but JG's should have yellow feet bottoms. To my experienced eye, the roo reminded me of Orpingtons because of how round he is.

What color are the bottoms of their feet? White or yellow?

The one is only so white for two reasons. She is filing out from moulting so they are all new feathers and the ground has been frozen solid for over a week. There is no mud or dirt to roll in yet. LOL Also, she's a bit overexposed next to the JGs. Blanchie is considerably whiter than my rather...