American Gamefowl

[OhZark Biddies]

Love Jerry Clower!

Here's one of my favorites.

I'm not familiar with the other one. . I'll listen to it now.

Jeanie Robertson is a hoot. You'll be up all night listening to her if you ain't careful.

I’ve been listening to something all night...

My nearest dog neighbors are about 3/4 to a mile away... most nights I never hear a dog...

But I’ve been porch sittin since just after dark...

and while I ain’t got it all figured out... I’d bet a stack of 10 sawbucks that our local coyotes are gonna let some blood run tonight... if this was December... I’d have one or three bouncing in the morning sure as shine...

If you’re listening, if you’re watching, sometimes it’s clear as day when things are gonna get dead by coyotes...

Coons and foxes they do more listening and watching .... than they do talking... but coyotes are easy if you’re paying attention...

lol... nothing to do with any of the previous posts... but it’s hard to turn off a country boys ear when it’s tuned in...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I’ve been listening to something all night...

My nearest dog neighbors are about 3/4 to a mile away... most nights I never hear a dog...

But I’ve been porch sittin since just after dark...

and while I ain’t got it all figured out... I’d bet a stack of 10 sawbucks that our local coyotes are gonna let some blood run tonight... if this was December... I’d have one or three bouncing in the morning sure as shine...

If you’re listening, if you’re watching, sometimes it’s clear as day when things are gonna get dead by coyotes...

Coons and foxes they do more listening and watching .... than they do talking... but coyotes are easy if you’re paying attention...

lol... nothing to do with any of the previous posts... but it’s hard to turn off a country boys ear when it’s tuned in...

I hope they stay away from your place!

 

[roosterhavoc]

That’s interesting I never knew them as a problem critter in that way...

To be fair I’ve never bumped into a marmot in real life... and really only know them from Marty Stouffer’s Wild America shows..,

What ever happened to that fella?

Who’s that?

 

[SOHC-FTW]

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Nice looking needs a trim bob.

Hows that work him being loose don't have any other of age males near by?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Who’s that?

He used to do a nature show in the 80s that was actually very good ... I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t know what a marmot is if it weren’t for that show, lol

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I have a few questions that I would very much like clarified.
1. When you guys are choosing stags and cocks to keep for breeding what is it that you are looking for physically?
2. Same question for pullets and hens.
3. Will you guys keep a stag/cock but not use him for breeding? What determines if you will use the cock for breeding or just hold onto him?
4. Not really a question, but if any of you guys could post a picture of a bird that would get culled and one you would keep, and identify why you’re culling the one bird and keeping the other.
Thank you.

 

[roosterhavoc]

He used to do a nature show in the 80s that was actually very good ... I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t know what a marmot is if it weren’t for that show, lol

Umm.

That was a video of him introducing himself 1500 times. Twas a funny.

 

[B123]

Nice looking needs a trim bob.

Hows that work him being loose don't have any other of age males near by?

I like the pea combs, less prone to frostbite...
I trained all my roosters to get along and play nice. lol I rotate older birds for time in the yard. All my pens are built with a 3 ft wall, so they can't pen fight. The cock in the pick nearly ended his life the other day with a pen swap mishap. The little guy thought he would take on a 1yr old full size stag.

 

[JShubin]

I have a few questions that I would very much like clarified.
1. When you guys are choosing stags and cocks to keep for breeding what is it that you are looking for physically?
2. Same question for pullets and hens.
3. Will you guys keep a stag/cock but not use him for breeding? What determines if you will use the cock for breeding or just hold onto him?
4. Not really a question, but if any of you guys could post a picture of a bird that would get culled and one you would keep, and identify why you’re culling the one bird and keeping the other.
Thank you.

1. I look for size, body shape, leg length, wing length and muscle definition. But also many other aspects other than physical... (first to the food test, dominance, how they pose/stand, etc)
2. Same answer
3. I keep stags all the time to see how they turn out. Its not always easy to tell how good they are when they are young. I also keep them as backup brood if they are as good as parents.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Umm.
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That was a video of him introducing himself 1500 times. Twas a funny.

Lol, well now that you explained it to me, it t’were funny