How to develop American game bantam

[raingarden]

I'm not very good at guessing weight but maybe two pounds..

 

[Az OEGB]

Ok

I'm not very good at guessing weight but maybe two pounds..

 

[Az OEGB]

If you get a chance could you send some pictures of the ones you saved

 

[raingarden]

I'll try to get some photos. But, they're in a net pen and are flighty so it's hard to get them to sit still. Give me a day or so.

 

[raingarden]

OK. I cornered them and got them all in one photo.

 

[raingarden]

Here is their father. He is the Heir Apparent (spare rooster) for our quasi-feral flock. He has to stay locked up so his father doesn't try to kill him.

 

[raingarden]

I didn't think to photograph the mother. She is a typical OEGB red or black-breasted red.

I should have explained that the roosters are not really Red Junglefowl. That's what they call them here and supposedly they decend from RJF that arrived in Hawaii with the original Polynesiam voyagers over a thousand years ago. But surely, there has been introgression of more modern chickens since then. Actually, genomic testing indicates that all RJF worldwide have baan cross-bred at some point. It is all just a matter of degrees. Ours have normal RJF (+) coloring including white ear lobes and slate legs. They have the truncated call. But, the tail carriage is higher and, of course, they have lost the eclipse plummage of a real RJF..

 

[swampfox440]

Here is their father. He is the Heir Apparent (spare rooster) for our quasi-feral flock. He has to stay locked up so his father doesn't try to kill him.
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Beautiful birds!

 

[Az OEGB]

OK. I cornered them and got them all in one photo.

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Thank you for the pictures they are some very good looking birds

 

[Az OEGB]

Update pics of my 1/2 OEGB 1/2 Red Jungle Fowl