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

[genesis1verse1]

Wow, I was just looking at some garden setups using chickens and I remembered your YouTube videos talking about that subject so I tried to get to your channel to watch the video again and your whole channel was gone. This is pretty sad because there was a wealth of information you had shared on there that I took for granted would always be available. I'm sorry for whatever caused you to make the decision to take it down.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Wow, I was just looking at some garden setups using chickens and I remembered your YouTube videos talking about that subject so I tried to get to your channel to watch the video again and your whole channel was gone. This is pretty sad because there was a wealth of information you had shared on there that I took for granted would always be available. I'm sorry for whatever caused you to make the decision to take it down.

I’ll be glad to writeup whatever you want to know about my experiences with gardening with the chickens. I can start a separate thread.

 

[genesis1verse1]

I’ll be glad to writeup whatever you want to know about my experiences with gardening with the chickens. I can start a separate thread.

I appreciate that. I had already purchased the digital version of your book and I looked up what I was curious about in there. The videos were just an extra visual aid that will be missed. You have always been a great teacher and inspiration to me especially when it comes to raising chickens in a practical way.

 

[Hablo]

I appreciate that. I had already purchased the digital version of your book and I looked up what I was curious about in there. The videos were just an extra visual aid that will be missed. You have always been a great teacher and inspiration to me especially when it comes to raising chickens in a practical way.

I agree. He changed my mindset. I always thought that if I kept my chickens properly, none of them would be killed by a predator. But it's not like that at all.
I wanted to watch his videos a lot times more to remember every little important information. Now it's not possible anymore :'(

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

I didn’t realize my channel was so important to people. In hindsight, I perhaps could have left up the video as an archive and simply done a goodby video.

However, I’ll explain here a little bit of what I’ve told people via PM. I’m simply getting to many messages to reply to them all.

In my career, I work for the government. I’m responsible for punishing evil doers. That almost always means depriving violent criminals of their freedom for decades or the rest of their lives. Sometimes that means actually taking their lives via capital punishment. It is a heavy burden. It is also often thankless. Its a constant war for the heart and soul of the local community.

For 3 years I took a break from the work. It was during this time I founded my Youtube channel. I returned to the war after 3 years. I kept Florida Bullfrog as an escape and posted periodically for the next decade. I even wrote my book. However, maintaining Florida Bullfrog as a side project took my farm away as my private way to recharge. Instead of enjoying my farm an animals for myself and my family, it became a job to constantly make content. Even writing my book took a lot out if me. The weekends I spent writing late into the night would have been better spent with family and resting.

I torched the channel because I had to “kill” Florida Bullfrog. I don’t think he’s me anymore. It used to be that “me the prosecutor” was a mask and Florida Bullfrog was the real me. Now its reversed. I had always hoped the channel might become a way I could leave the practice of law behind. Now its clear I’m called into this profession as my life’s duty. So I had to terminate the part of me that was holding on to a simpler life.

 

[TexasBlues]

The videos probably inspired people to do something similar. I saw some sponsored post on Facebook for the “Jack-o-raptor” which seemed like another Terrorfowl.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

The videos probably inspired people to do something similar. I saw some sponsored post on Facebook for the “Jack-o-raptor” which seemed like another Terrorfowl.

I’ve seen that guy before, and yes I always had the notion he was trying to copy my idea and pretend it was his own. But, whatever. I’ve thought about the fact that removing my videos somewhat erases that I was the first person in modern social media to really put out there the need to return to traditional free-ranging with game breeds. Someone else is going to fill the void and pretend it was their original idea all along. But I figure memorializing it in my book provides some documentation who put it out there first. And at the end of the day, its just “pride” that wants to be known as the original free-range guru. When I’m dead and gone from this earth, my chickens aren’t going to matter. Justice I did for a victim will matter.

 

[TexasBlues]

Probably just parallel thinking. I think he’s been breeding it for about 5-6 years.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Probably just parallel thinking. I think he’s been breeding it for about 5-6 years.

That’s what he claims. I’ve interacted with him before. He didn’t actually appear until several months ago. My gut reaction that he’s too self-promotional to be sincere. He’s out to make a buck and sell himself. But again, its neither here nor there. Its not really my business. I own no copyright on mixing orientals into other breeds. That’s what people were doing on mass 100 years ago to make many duel purpose breeds.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

What I’ve done that’s different than other chicken-keeping internet personalities is that I recognized the knowledge of free-ranging rugged breeds has been lost on the current generation, and I packaged the knowledge and used my platform to disseminate it. Its not that there aren’t others who also understand how good gamefowl and gamefowl mixed are at being self-sustaining parallel to myself. They just haven’t been disseminating the information.