My Spartan's

[baban]

The story begin when someone come to backyardGeo to see my cemani's then suddenly he show me picture of his chicken. not chicken like we breeding at home, i think. He show me Crested fireback and make me a dream to own that.

Now after spend many time, i have it. But i don't know what actually feed they usually eat. I really want to breed them. Right now i only give them commercial chicken feed.

I prefer call them spartans because bare blue facial skin they have.
Here's my spartans:


Did anyone know what they usually eat in their habitat? Really appreciated it.

 

[N F C]

What striking birds!

This is what I found about them online:
Crested_fireback according to Wikipedia:
"The crested fireback (Lophura ignita) is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long, forest pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin. The female is a brown bird with short crest, blue facial skin and spotted black-and-white below.

The crested fireback is found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. There are four subspecies of the crested fireback, but in 2014 the subspecies rufa was split as a distinct species from the others. Males of the subspecies from Borneo and Bangka Island, L. i. ignita (lesser Bornean crested fireback) and L. i. nobilis (greater Bornean crested fireback), have brown central tail feathers, whitish legs and are rufous below. The male Vieillot's crested fireback, L. rufa, of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and most of Sumatra has white central tail feathers, red legs and bluish black streaked white below. The final subspecies, Delacour's crested fireback, L. i. macartneyi, is found in south-eastern Sumatra and the male has white to the tail, whitish legs and a variable amount of rufous below. As macartneyispecimens are variable, the Handbook of Birds of the World regards it as a hybrid between rufa and a possible relictual or introduced population of ignita. The female of L. i ignita and L. i. nobilis have a dark, blackish tail and whitish legs, while female of L. i.a rufa has a chestnut brown tail and red legs.

The diet consists mainly of plants, fruits and small animals. The female usually lays between four and eight creamy white eggs.

Due to ongoing habitat loss and overhunting in some areas, the crested fireback is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] It is listed on Appendix III of CITES in Malaysia."

Maybe that helps?

 

[2 many chickens]

Gorgeous
I love beautiful birdies!

 

[Fishkeeper]

They're absolutely beautiful, but they're not chickens.
I'd almost be tempted to see if any zoos keep them, and then call them to ask what they feed. I'd feed them gamebird feed, probably.

 

[drumstick diva]

Are they a type of pheasant??

 

[Fishkeeper]

Here's a source that says the males are aggressive, so you might want to be prepared to split that group up:
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/borneancrestedpeafowl.html
And yes, pheasants.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

How gorgeous!!!!