Anybody keeping gamefowl?

[pascopol]

I am itching to get a few gamefowl hens, anybody keeps those beauties here?

How many eggs per season game hen will produce? I can use them for hatching peacocks, since they are excellent and protective mothers.

 

[peacockfarmer1]

i keep some game hens mostly game roosters

right now i have 15 game hens they lay pretty good but mine are usually setting on eggs
i use them for guinea eggs, peacock eggs, chicken eggs, game chicken eggs, and turkey eggs
one of my grey games would attack you if you came within 10 ft of her chicks
but you don't want to let game hen hatch and raise peafowl/what i do is let them hatch them(much better hatch rate than my incubators like 95 to even 100% hatch) then take the peachick and put in in a brooder on wire above ground
like i said they lay really good but in spring and summer don't let eggs accumulate unless u want them to set cause they will!
good luck
the rooster in this picture is hatch X sweater the hen is Democrat X hatch

 

[phasianidae]

I have OEGBs, what kind of gamefowl do you want?

 

[Illia]

There's a whole entire thread here on Gamefowl, just look back to I believe the second or third page to find it. . I myself have Oriental Gamefowl and LOVE them.

 

[RainbowBirds_of_a_Feather]

Aloha,

Yes I do have them go to my "BYC page" but mine are not fancy colored just a few but i need to take better photos when the weather gets better. There are some threads that can help in your selection.


Here are some threads that people made I going to the thread that are up on this site!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=106767

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=354231&p=1