Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[cubalaya]

that blue asil looks sharp, those gong dongs are ugly

 

[Patricia Jane]

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NO, Walt .... here is a better picture of the legs.... supper tonight, ya know ....

http://www.vietco.com/images/ads4/chan_ga_dong_tao_9654.jpg

Now that is just disgusting!!

I have to agree, wow

 

[Robert Blosl]

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I am glad people raise them. Really, I am ...... cuz I just couldn't. Those things are just butt-ugly to me.

I wouldn't have room to house every male, either.
I applaud all you who raise them, breed them, and love them!

In that case I'm guessing you won't like this couple. (there is nothing wrong with them, GaDong Tao are supposed to look like this).

You know you want some................

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/66947_dong_cao_couple.jpg

Walt

are those R I Reds from some foreighn country? I think I saw some one time from Maylaisa or some place like that. The first thing I thought of is Ma and Pa Kettle.

Boy o Boy what is this world coming to. bob

Where have all the old chickens gone.

 

[Illia]

Oriental Gamefowl are FAR older than any American type breed.

 

[punky rooster]

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In that case I'm guessing you won't like this couple. (there is nothing wrong with them, GaDong Tao are supposed to look like this).

You know you want some................

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/66947_dong_cao_couple.jpg

Walt

are those R I Reds from some foreighn country? I think I saw some one time from Maylaisa or some place like that. The first thing I thought of is Ma and Pa Kettle.

Boy o Boy what is this world coming to. bob

Where have all the old chickens gone.

thats a good question Bob lol

AND THE LEGS!!!

this makes me

&

at the same time!

 

[saladin]

As Ilia has already stated these type of heavy scales are very desirable in some Oriental breeds. I've not seen it in Asil but have in other quality fowl.

The folks of Southeast Asia believe this to be something like a throw-back to very ancient fowl. I don't know that that is true, but the chicken did originate in that part of the world.

Here are 3 more pictures from ganoi as examples:

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Cubalaya legs tend to get scaley like that as the bird ages. Perhaps it is a trait from their oriental ancestors?

 

[catdaddyfro]

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NO, Walt .... here is a better picture of the legs.... supper tonight, ya know ....

http://www.vietco.com/images/ads4/chan_ga_dong_tao_9654.jpg

ha ya'll are crazy for sure , but on another note chicken feet are concidered a delicacy in oreintal food dishes, mumm mummm.

I remember hearing my Grandmother tell stories of my Greatgrandmother eating chicken feet don't know if she really liked them or if that was all that was left after the prime pieces were all scarfed up by having and oversized family. You know they used to use everything on an animal I've often heard the only thing they threw away on a hog was its squeal.

catdaddy

 

[centrarchid]

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I am inclined to doubt breeds with so many accumulated mutations are the oldest, rather they are easiest to recognize in archeological record. Oldest breeds are most likely to be proportioned like wild jungle fowl progenitors and if more delicate boned are less likely to survive intact within archeological deposits.

It is more likely progenitors of existing old English games and leghorns are older than "oriental’s" and when you are fishing that far back in time all the chickens were in India and southeast Asia so term oriental may not be best descriptor for such ancient breeds.

If oriental’s are the eldest continuously existing breeds, then the mutations required to make them standout from jungle fowl ancestors would have to be selected back out to generate more jungle fowl looking breeds considered to be of more recent development.

 

[saladin]

centra,

Ilia didn't say they were the oldest. He was also refering to American breeds (American Class). And they are indeed much much older than anything in the American Class, as you well know.

Though you may indeed be correct as to the Bankiva Game being the oldest............ The oldest documented breed is still the Asil and it's Oriental, as you well know.