Everything Asil Thread ( show off those Asil )

[ccassidy18]

That is true @varidgerunner I agree that the brooding of chicks is considered natural selection. But that and disease run just about the only natural selection they have. @cubalaya Aren't the wild chickens in Hawaii descended from old English game? If I remember right,old day cockers on Hawaii couldn't really migrate with fighting birds to hide them when cockfighting was outlawed on Hawaii. So the cockers just released their birds into the wild. Not doing much with them anymore. But that would've killed them,as roosters would've killed each other,and any surviving hens would've only had a select few roosters to choose from to breed with...the ones that either won or hid. That would limit the genetic diversity,and I really don't think there would be thousands like there are today on the islands. Unless the hurricane released other caged laying flocks and commercial egg flocks maximizing genetic diversity.

 

[artblueggwanter]

elephants, deer ,lions, rhinos, elephant seals among others including wild breeds of chickens do some times kill each other during breeding season. watch some nature shows, just because we don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening!!! hate to point out the obvious but it happens in the wild folks and not just with chickens

 

[cubalaya]

I'm talking about leaving broods free range until they come of age. They go through one round of natural selection. The dumb, weak, and sickly don't make it. Then, when selected again, it is still natural selection. They are being selected by another asil, not a human. Another asil will spot weaknesses we can't. All that man has done is select the winners. This is why they are improved to the point that they are.

oh this I agree with. that would be the first selection, though, with man making the final selections

 

[artblueggwanter]

a buddy down the street his roos got loose and he never cut their spurs well 1 impaled the other in the eye killed it. this was some 20 years ago, I image that playing out in the wild all the time

 

[varidgerunner]

A male animal has a very short window of contribution for the survival of a species. Most are designed to challenge each other to ensure that only the strongest and healthiest pass on their genes. Some of them die in the process, freeing up resources for females and young. Sometimes they don't necessarily fight, there are animal species in which the male has decoration or bright colors that grab the attention of potential predators at the same time as potential mates. (Some find ways of showing their mating potential by racing fast cars or doing tricks on skateboards.)

In Hawaii, or Florida or anywhere that has a feral gamefowl population, remember there would always be young stags coming on, an old crippled cock or one that liked to run and hide, more than enough to do the breeding. And they are usually Bankiva games, the hens not getting along would probably make it hard for there to be a feral asil population.

 

[ccassidy18]

Males don't really so much for a specie's survival. They fertilize the females and decide the gender of the future offspring. But I think chickens are the exception,correct me if I'm wrong,female chickens choose the offspring gender.

 

[JRNash]

Seems to be a 50/50 split to me

 

[ccassidy18]

It is a 50/50 split for hatching. But I'm talking about which parent chooses the offspring gender...I actually think that with chickens it is the females. Humans are males that choose.

 

[JRNash]

 

[cubalaya]

couple of stags