Jungle fowl hatching thread

[Florida Bullfrog]

Hi, I bought some red jungle fowl hybrid eggs from someone on eBay after making a thread without success. Turns out the seller @Florida Bullfrog is on byc. So I've got 7 eggs that arrived a while ago. Recently (today) i pulled out 3 that had wobbly air cells and didn't develop. I'm going to post updates and chicks pictures hopefully!

Good luck! When did you set these?

 

[Chickie friend]

I completely lost count of what day they're on. Looking at candling charts I think they're about day 15-16?

Edit: that means they were set on The 3rd or 4th

Good luck! When did you set these?

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Time to do some research or ask the breeder you bought the eggs from.

They’ll do fine with either 18% chick starter or 30% gamebird feed. I prefer the 30%. It seems like they grow significantly faster and all around look more vibrant. I don’t follow a set regiment. As they grow I randomly mix their 30% with lower protein and sometimes just give them the low protein. When they can live in an outside brooder without a heater they’ll get more normal protein than the 30%

Which a number of chicks are raised free range and they only ever get layer crumbles with the adults.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Are the eggs white shell? There easier to see inside. I can barely see me Swedish Flower hen eggs, there tan colored but I guess kind of thick shell. When I candled them last night, I looked at it, I can't really see much inside except for a dark blob moving.

The eggs are cream or white. More white. They are easy to candle.

 

[Chickie friend]

Just realised they might hatch on Christmas!

 

[Tonyroo]

Your roosters are vibrant in color, I have considered buying some eggs from you on Ebay. After reading about there wild tendencies, I opted out. They are beautiful though.

 

[Chickie friend]

Your roosters are vibrant in color, I have considered buying some eggs from you on Ebay. After reading about there wild tendencies, I opted out. They are beautiful though.

I'm hoping that I can bribe mine with mealworms to be calm-ish

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

They actually tame up well on their own when they’re grown. They learn fast who feeds them and warm up accordingly. They are easy to hand feed and they often light on my shoulder like parrots wanting a treat. They’re most flighty and skittish when they’re chicks and sub adults, and a lot of their “wild” has more to do with how they free range. They come into confidence as they mature.

I don’t handle mine much though because I have concerns that excessive handling leads to human aggression. That’s just a hypothesis, I don’t have enough data to confirm or deny it. When I obtained this flock going on 2 years ago, 3 of my 4 roosters that I allowed to mature were terrible manfighters. The 4th was calm and confident and human friendly. That was/is “Hei Hei” and he became the father of my flock. Your eggs are off of Hei Hei’s children and grandchildren, which are the best of my best roosters that have survived multiple selection culls by myself. None show any human aggression. Yet, I also produced offspring off the manfighters and none of them are manfighters either. There was something unique to those original 3 birds that made them human aggressive that didn’t translate to their descendants. I raised 1 myself and family raised the other 2. All 3 were heavily coddled as young cockerels, while Hei Hei was raised at arm’s length. Therefore I speculate that perhaps their raising made them not keep a healthy fear of humans and to the extent they have true wildness in them, losing a fear of man makes them dangerous like a tame whitetail buck during the rut. But that’s just my guess. Its just as possible the farmer I got them off of incubated them poorly and their manfighting traits might have been an incubation defect.

 

[Chickie friend]

Last night it was really rainy and one broody (dusty) was all wet in the morning (she's in the only wet spot in the big coop) Her eggs were dry though! I dried her off and piled up the bedding so her eggs would have absolutely no possibility of getting wet. Angry wet broody Silkie

Edit: the big coop has a tree going though the ceiling. That's why there's a place where water can get though

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

My JF hens will brood through the rain outside in shrubs and palmettos and they and their eggs are fine.