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Ya I found a pure or it least imported rjf from a breeder that was selling 450$ a pair. Wayyy out of my price range!!! Plus we have an assortment of layers that may be careers of diseases. Rjfs natural habitat probably doesn't have the diseases we have here. The reason why I want more self reliant chickens is because we have a over grown woods that would be nice to have wild free ranging birds occupying.You can try the hybrid rjf at cackle hatchery. Pure rjf are on a whole different level. They are susceptible to chicken diseases and may kick the bucket before you can breed them. If they do lay, it's very tough to raise the chicks to adults. Chicks would likely catch diseases from the foster mother chicken and pass away before they reach adults. I don't know of any rjf breeders who has available birds.
You can free range gamefowl but they’ll all get eaten eventually if you don’t trap the predators that will most likely prey on them.Ya I found a pure or it least imported rjf from a breeder that was selling 450$ a pair. Wayyy out of my price range!!! Plus we have an assortment of layers that may be careers of diseases. Rjfs natural habitat probably doesn't have the diseases we have here. The reason why I want more self reliant chickens is because we have a over grown woods that would be nice to have wild free ranging birds occupying.
I don't mind losing a couple chickens to the wild as I'm not using them for meat or eggs. But would like to have something I can enjoy watching in the wild and observe their natural instincts. Plus the wild breeds really interest me.Pure Red jungle Fowl are so flighty that even zoos have trouble keeping them, because they will run into walls and wire to escape people, thus killing themselves. There is a reason people have been breeding birds to be tamer over centuries. There are breeds that are better suited to free ranging, but there will always be losses. Chickens are a prey species. Even wild animals fall to predation.