Breeding Aseels

[centrarchid]

Here is something different from American Games I watch. The American Game hen with chicks the Aseel is courting is weaning her brood. The chicks are getting sassy like they do before going into battle royal mode. Both chicks are male and sassing the Aseel. The Aseel runs them off hard forcing them into deep brush he will not follow them through. The hen is acting plump with tail pinched at 45 degree angle above horizontal to appear sexy. The American Game cocks / bullstags do not run youngsters off until they are at least 12 weeks and sometimes not even until they are 18 weeks old. I just penned the two stag chicks next to their dad to prevent them from going kickass on each other.

 

[centrarchid]

Hen coming off nest exposing 7 good eggs. One got busted when she went at dog. Nothing else makes her special compared to American Games while brooding.

 

[centrarchid]

 

[bradymars]

Nice stag, should Be a beast when he cocks out.

 

[Kabootar]

I would suspect that it's way worse on the Indian Sub-Continent right? Aseels should thrive on summer time in the USA.

We are receiving the first excess monsoon (10%+ more than average) in 25 years. Bihar has received 70% more than average. India as a whole has received 18% more than average. Bihar is the most flood prone State, so that is nothing new, but some years they are worse than others. Many rivers coming from Nepal and Tibet cause massive floods in UP, Bihar Assam and also Bangladesh. In India more West and North you go the drier it gets and more East and South you go the wetter it gets.

 

[centrarchid]

The guy I got my bullstag from said that during the first decade or so after bringing the stock over, that had poor winter survival. He would loose about half each year. He kept them outside like American Games.

 

[Kabootar]

The guy I got my bullstag from said that during the first decade or so after bringing the stock over, that had poor winter survival. He would loose about half each year. He kept them outside like American Games.

Aseels are hard feathered birds they cannot thrive in cold conditions. Here the winters are cool, but never cold. Last time I saw below zero temperature was in 2013 when it got -2° C and that was only overnight.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Aseels are hard feathered birds they cannot thrive in cold conditions. Here the winters are cool, but never cold. Last time I saw below zero temperature was in 2013 when it got -2° C and that was only overnight.

What are your winter lows in your locatiom?

 

[Kabootar]

What are your winter lows in your locatiom?

In Bihar where my farm is located it is safe to assume that winter temperatures may reach a low of 4°C. Temperatures below that is rare, but not unheard of. Currently I am located in New Delhi, here temperatures may reach 0° celcius, but that's an exception, not a norm.

Delhi is situated on the eastern border of what was historically called Punjab, the Western part of Punjab is in Pakistan. As I said earlier, more North and West you go, the drier it gets. Same is true for Punjab, the Delhi is less dry than say Lahore.

The climate is continental, the range of temperatures is extreme. 4°C in winter and 44°C in summer is normal. The pattern of rainfall is tropical monsoon type. That is we receive 75-90% of the rainfall in 3-4 months from June to September. The arrival of monsoon is abrupt. That is to say, it is bone dry in March, April and May with scorching heat, temperatures well beyond 40°C, but before the end of June the whole subcontinent is in full grasp of monsoon. It arrives first in South, then East, then North and then West. The peak rainfall is in July and August.

The retreat of monsoon however a more gradual process. It starts retreating from the West first in August itself, then North, then East and then South, in a reverse order. So the places where monsoon arrives last are also the first places from where it retreats first . The North of the subcontinent also receive some rain from the Western Disturbance, in the months of December and January. Bihar being the eastern most State to receive winter rains. The retreating monsoon also brings rain to the Southern tip of the subcontinent and Northern portions of Sri Lanka.

 

[Kabootar]

Sorry for the rambling. I just don't realise before it's too late.