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Been a while since I posted, I thought I had subscribed so I'd get email updates but apparently not. You will need a covered pen for the Kraienköppe, I kept some cull hens around once to put in the egg laying flock I had (now I have no need for cull hens or a egg laying flock my young hens I'm not breeding tend to lay so much) and even with a clipped wing they still managed to fly on top of the fence.I figure I am going to have to have a covered run with them I'd they're anything like m American games.
I liken them a lot to my American games I kept all of my life. The cocks (usually) have a very cocky personality even when near other roosters which are top of the pecking order (which many breeds I've seen will go under-hack around.) They free range about like a American game, crow as much as a American game (Also sound similar to AG; mine don't crow much like your typical yard fowl.) When most people see them they even think they're a game until told otherwise. If anyone were looking for a game-like bird but without the gameness, the Kraienköppe is the breed in my opinion and they lay better to boot. Now that I've culled through most of my old breeder birds, I've turned them out to free range mostly and just keep my stock for this year penned (as I don't want the hens being bred by the other birds) and all of them get along fine; even the Malay crosses will run around the yard together- quite the site to see on a warm, sunny afternoon and a bit of scratch to toss out in front of you. I just need more color, wouldn't mind picking up some silvers once money permits. I was hoping whites would crop up last year as some have had happen, but I got all BBred except for the Malay crosses which about 50% of came black or brown red. Maybe this year I'll get some whites?