Gamefowl

[steven11788]

since i dont wanna quote the whole thing

"Did you bring the birds from Key West and more importantly, do you know anyone there who can get us some hatching eggs?!"

Davaroo!

My bet is he got some furtil eggs before he left, i've road a hour in the car with chickens. d### roosters had a crowing contest

i wish i knew definatly what they were, i really believe they are red jungle fowl or RJF croosed with imports, i know a friend down there that fights them. i dont know how, the island is IMO not big enough to hold an underground ring w/o getting caught, again IMO.

 

[Davaroo]

When I lived there, these birds ran wild and I mean feral. They lived in the park and the trees and were scattered all over the island.
But surely someone has some they keep as yard birds. The challenge is to find that person.

 

[steven11788]

OH my... after calling Key West Chick, a dude in my post i read the proud mother signature so, IM Sorry

please forgive... me like the name "chick" didn't hit me lol

 

[steven11788]

um the gypsy chicken, from spanish decendent, umm makes real since. cool site there Egh..

so not really bred for cockfighting, and that makes since, cause when i was there, roosters were all over together as well...

 

[Davaroo]

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Yeah, I was wondering about that.

 

[Davaroo]

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you can contact me @ [email protected] and i will try. yf egh

Nice site!! Ill look that one over prettygood.
Thanks.

 

[steven11788]

lol yea i hope she don't get offened..

 

[key west chick]

No offense taken!Sometimes we all try to think to much before the coffee kicks in! No, sadly I don't live there anymore, been gone 17 years. I'm a born and raised conch but after graduation I got the heck outa dodge.I have a few family members left I try to go see every year, this being the first year I haven't due to the price of gas and everything else. Really wish I could have gone now with all the interest in eggs and birds. Those chickens have been a part of my growing up, just like the 6 toed Hemmingway cats.( Yet to get one of those) About 6 years ago, DH and I decided to have chickens. What better breed to get but my beloved gypsy chickens. That summer, my aunt had a hen and 6 day old chicks in her yard. We went, caught them all and thats how it started. Of those chicks, 4 were roos. Smokey my red and gray roo is all I have left of those birds. Since then, over the years whenever I felt like a new color, we went out with some throw nets and caught one or two. I'm sure we looked like idiots running around chasing chickens. Got to hard so I got with Katha Sheehan that runs the chicken rescue and started taking them from her. Haven't had a new one in a few years and I'm down to Smokey, 2 hens we caught and 2 hens of Smoke's. We drive by the way, kinda hard to take chickens on carry on! And the 7 mile bridge IS really 7 miles, DH checked on our first drive down there. Ya'll should have driven over the OLD 7 mile bridge, that was scary! TT trucks would just about blow you off the side when you passed one going the other direction.

 

[steven11788]

man i miss Keywest, when you said out a dodge i guess it being a tourist town, was troublesome, plus friends from south say they would kill to live next to moutain, i live an hour, but i would kill to live in the keys, plus im an obsessed fisherman and not to sound girlie but im into house structure and type, and i love those types of houses,

 

[key west chick]

Yea, I grew up ok but we sure were bored. Nothing to do on the weekend except get a 6-pack and cruise Duval street for hours. When was the last time you were there steven? It's really changed over the last 20 years. My best friend and her family still live there and she tries to get me to move back every time I talk to her. Not gonna happen. I wish I knew more about the heritage of the chickens but just remember growing up that they were fighting birds brought over by the cuban refugees. I don't think I'll trade my mountains and creeks for fattening food and a few more chickens!