Are they Jungle fowl or hatch...please help!!

[neugene]

Hi i was sold this young pair of fowl the other day and was told they are Jungle Fowl however im having second thoughts about wat they could be...Please help!!

 

[coorusu]

i've never seen jungle fowl before but they just look like OEGB to me.

 

[donrae]

Agree, they just look like game birds to me.

 

[chooks4life]

I also agree, they don't look like purebred juvenile Jungle Fowl to me. Might have been an honest mistake on the seller's part, though.

 

[Ntsees]

The development is a little off. A juvenile male that has neck hackle feathers at those lengths should also have all its adult flight feathers (the tertial feathers of the wing on your bird are still brown).

compare and contrast: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinchel/7175817677/in/photostream/

You bird is still good looking though. If its not a game, I'm gonna guess 50% pure.

 

[neugene]

The development is a little off. A juvenile male that has neck hackle feathers at those lengths should also have all its adult flight feathers (the tertial feathers of the wing on your bird are still brown).

compare and contrast: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinchel/7175817677/in/photostream/

You bird is still good looking though. If its not a game, I'm gonna guess 50% pure.

Thank you just going to have to wait and see

 

[Totits]

Hi there,

Jungle fowls usually have white ear lobe, and the coloration for legs are blue.

 

[chooks4life]

The development is a little off. A juvenile male that has neck hackle feathers at those lengths should also have all its adult flight feathers (the tertial feathers of the wing on your bird are still brown).

compare and contrast: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinchel/7175817677/in/photostream/

You bird is still good looking though. If its not a game, I'm gonna guess 50% pure.

Interesting. I've never heard that there is a specific rate at which each set of feather is supposed to come in, but I do notice it varies a LOT. I only notice that with non-jungle fowl though because I don't have purebreds, lol... What rate are they supposed to feather in at?

best wishes.

 

[Ntsees]

Interesting. I've never heard that there is a specific rate at which each set of feather is supposed to come in, but I do notice it varies a LOT. I only notice that with non-jungle fowl though because I don't have purebreds, lol... What rate are they supposed to feather in at?

best wishes.

I do not know what the rate is, but completing the flight/wing feather development appears to be a priority (a survival thing that goes for most, if not all, galliformes). I've looked at a lot of internet pictures/videos, and that's what I noticed in juvenile birds (yeah, internet pictures are probably a poor reference, although you have to know what you're looking for, but that's what I'm going with). Anyways, this is just an observation. I'm going to compare if the trend is the same with my wild quail this spring.

 

[neugene]

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