Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

[Mugwumpgame]

Prayers for everyone in Florida and for all their feathered loved ones as well. Prayers

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Florida Bullfrog did y'all and your birds make it through the hurricane ok?

Prayers for everyone in Florida and for all their feathered loved ones as well. Prayers

We are fine. The storm totally missed us when it shifted east. We actually needed the rain here and I was looking forward to it coming this way. We still are having strong wind gusts but not one drop of rain.

The people in SW Florida definitely need the prayers.

Don’t take what I’m about to post wrong. Its a terrible tragedy that many people, maybe millions, who built or bought their homes in what was wild swamps 30 years ago and have now lost most or all of their possessions. HOWEVER, it is also very predictable. Much of Florida’s wild lands have been violated by rampant development and an influx of new people who have packed in with no respect for Florida’s natural cycles. We’ve been in a hurricane drought the last few decades. If the cycle returns to normal this sort of massive flooding is going to happen yearly in south Florida. The entire south of the state is one massive river with high islands here and there. Urban South Florida had been built in what is in effect a giant dry river bed that’s waiting for rain.

 

[Appalachian homestead]

I've got friends with a house in fort Myers. Still waiting to hear how badly it's damaged.

 

[Mugwumpgame]

I've got friends with a house in fort Myers. Still waiting to hear how badly it's damaged.

Prayers!

 

[Appalachian homestead]

Prayers!

Thank you!

 

[Appalachian homestead]

We are fine. The storm totally missed us when it shifted east. We actually needed the rain here and I was looking forward to it coming this way. We still are having strong wind gusts but not one drop of rain.

The people in SW Florida definitely need the prayers.

Don’t take what I’m about to post wrong. Its a terrible tragedy that many people, maybe millions, who built or bought their homes in what was wild swamps 30 years ago and have now lost most or all of their possessions. HOWEVER, it is also very predictable. Much of Florida’s wild lands have been violated by rampant development and an influx of new people who have packed in with no respect for Florida’s natural cycles. We’ve been in a hurricane drought the last few decades. If the cycle returns to normal this sort of massive flooding is going to happen yearly in south Florida. The entire south of the state is one massive river with high islands here and there. Urban South Florida had been built in what is in effect a giant dry river bed that’s be waiting for rain

We are fine. The storm totally missed us when it shifted east. We actually needed the rain here and I was looking forward to it coming this way. We still are having strong wind gusts but not one drop of rain.

The people in SW Florida definitely need the prayers.

Don’t take what I’m about to post wrong. Its a terrible tragedy that many people, maybe millions, who built or bought their homes in what was wild swamps 30 years ago and have now lost most or all of their possessions. HOWEVER, it is also very predictable. Much of Florida’s wild lands have been violated by rampant development and an influx of new people who have packed in with no respect for Florida’s natural cycles. We’ve been in a hurricane drought the last few decades. If the cycle returns to normal this sort of massive flooding is going to happen yearly in south Florida. The entire south of the state is one massive river with high islands here and there. Urban South Florida had been built in what is in effect a giant dry river bed that’s waiting for rain.

I am in the mountains in the southwestern corner of Va and it's supposed to rain all day Saturday from the storm.

 

[Mugwumpgame]

I am in the mountains in the southwestern corner of Va and it's supposed to rain all day Saturday from the storm.

Im in the far north eastern mountains of Tennessee. Will get the rain as well.

 

[Appalachian homestead]

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This is the 3/4 stag I have high hopes for. He takes on more like the Brugse. I’d like him to end up having the stature of a pure Greenfire Liege. My brother has a mature Greenfire cock that is the size of a wild turkey and has spurs as long and thick as my index finger.

Could you share a picture of your brother's bird? Sounds impressive!! Is his management style similar to yours?

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Could you share a picture of your brother's bird? Sounds impressive!! Is his management style similar to yours?

I don’t have anything that shows his scale. I think the only way to demonstrate would be to hold him, and I think that can only be accomplished by picking him off the roost while someone else films. He is not aggressive, but he could kill someone should he flail during an attempt to hold. In a picture without scale, all I can tell you is that you are looking at a bird that has the frame roughly that of a Florida-sized wild turkey tom. This is him:

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

In terms of my brother’s management, he coop raises his birds. He free ranges some Crackers around but he periodically pens them for breeding. The Liege are entirely cooped except for supervised free ranging. There are many foxes around but they have never taken a Liege. At night some of the Cracker-aseel crosses that my brother produced have been caught when they roost low in trees and not near the tops. My brother does not have a free range dog, which I believe would get rid of his fox problem.