Indio Gigante journey

[Backyard Birds Rehab]

A few months ago I started my journey to put my foot in the door in the helping of rare or endangered breeds. I started by acquiring several Indio Gigante chicks and I plan to move on to several breeds of gamefowl in the near future to assist in breeding the best I can.

Here in California I haven’t been able to find much in terms of breed preservation so I figured I’d lend my hand at doing so. I’ve owned chickens for well over 15 years now and I’m ready to lend a hand to preserving some truly incredible animals.

Attached is an image of one of my lovely Indio Gigante chicks

I will continue to update this thread as time passes

 

[N F C]

Best of luck to you!

 

[TwoCrows]

What a wonderful journey you are on with this breed, best wishes to you! Cute chick in your photo! ❤

 

[Backyard Birds Rehab]

Seemingly over night the little baby combs on my chicks have begun to redden and possibly reveal who’s who in my young flock! It’s all too exciting to see my future Roos and hens! I will keep you updated with pictures when it’s more set in stone! In the meantime enjoy these!

Also side thing! Anyone else’s chicks like to make themselves comfy on your shoes?

 

[Backyard Birds Rehab]

What a wonderful journey you are on with this breed, best wishes to you! Cute chick in your photo! ❤

Thank you so much! Here take this lovely little video of one of the chicks!

 

[N F C]

Thank you so much! Here take this lovely little video of one of the chicks!

What a cool short video, thanks for sharing that!

 

[TwoCrows]

Thank you so much! Here take this lovely little video of one of the chicks!

Nice flight, ❤ very nice!!!

 

[Backyard Birds Rehab]

Thank you so much! Here take this lovely little video of one of the chicks!

This here is an older video roughly... 3-4 days old i'd say?

But here shows a few more of the babies scratching away at the grass when it was just starting to warm up.

 

[Backyard Birds Rehab]

Pardon the less than ideal photo quality! But this is my suspected cockerel. It’s too early to tell 100% but the first to gain redness in the comb, heaviest in weight, and also the tallest of the flock all points (in my opinion) to rooster.

He’s also got a bizarre beak compared to the rest, seemingly more curved! For this name we’ve dubbed them hawk. If anyone knows why the beak may be this way I’d love to hear it!

 

[Backyard Birds Rehab]

Sadly while cooking and allowing the chicks to enjoy the heat of the spring here, I heard my dog snarling in the backyard only to find him fighting with a coyote that had broken into our yard. He made out with one of our chicks and injured another one however the injured chick has since recovered and is doing well after i've treated it.

I've since reinforced the fence it managed to scale and re-equipped my dogs spike collar, I ask you keep the chicks in your minds.