Luikse Vechter aka Liege Fighter Thread

[Crow Mountain Chickens]

So how old before y’all could tell hen from roo, and what were the signs that stood out the most. I’m trying to put as much information out there as possible since you can find almost nothing about the early chick stages. Did your males or females grow / feather faster, comb growth quicker in males? Did the leg size give any indication? Just questions like this I’m really curious about, so any input would help

They looked very similar to me until the roosters started to get color in. Size was probably the first clue, my roosters got significantly bigger pretty quickly.

 

[Crow Mountain Chickens]

Just ordered 6 Bruges Fighters from GFF, excited to get a flock going. Of the three Belgian gamefowl the Bruges is the oldest.

Really excited! They ship out tomorrow.

 

[Hideous Hermit]

Make sure you post lots of pics and keep us updated, here’s my little flock of Liege. I think I got lucky, I might have a good lookin bird on my hands here with this white one

 

[turkeybowl]

The black ones are liege. I hatched 4 eggs from crow mountain. They are doing great

 

[Hideous Hermit]

They found the compost pile

 

[Dnorton]

No offense taken at all, I truly hope if nothing else your search for validation brought you to this thread where we can all continue to work on and discuss these birds together. I know how shady many eBay sellers are, so I wanted to make sure to do my due diligence and ensure that you are happy with what you have purchased from me! 1 negative review or eggs that aren’t what they are meant to be would definitely affect my reputation in what is already such a risky purchase. Keep us posted on how your hatch goes. Look forward to chatting with you! Thanks again for your purchase!
Tyler

They were fertile. 2 hatched at least partially but didn’t survive. 2 developed but didn’t hatch. I think a few others were fertile. Can’t tell if my broody was a bad mother or the Mille interfered too much. I had to move her to another coop. Wife said no more eggs for now, so I will try again, but later.

 

[Hideous Hermit]

Sounds like temp didn’t stay high enough and they weren’t fully developed, just my guess tho. Sorry to hear about your hatch, thanks for sharing the info tho.

 

[Crow Mountain Chickens]

They were fertile. 2 hatched at least partially but didn’t survive. 2 developed but didn’t hatch. I think a few others were fertile. Can’t tell if my broody was a bad mother or the Mille interfered too much. I had to move her to another coop. Wife said no more eggs for now, so I will try again, but later.

Hate that you didn’t have any luck Dn. Glad to hear they were all developing. Let me know when you get ready for more and we can work something out.

 

[Hideous Hermit]

This heat wave is brutal, changing water every 2 hours. Anyone else in this bullshit

 

[Hideous Hermit]

Took these in a hurry, but here’s my 2 month old updated pics. They are surviving the heat so they do not like it one bit. I only have 1 hen lol go figure