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I raise grey and green jungle fowl, I have several pairs of greys, some F1 pairs and a pair from Elton. I also have a pair of greens, but they have not bred for me yet. I have raised exotic animals all of my life but birds are fairly new to me (this is my 3rd year raising jungle fowl and pheasants) and the greens are not an easy bird to keep. I didn't see a price on the site but they should run around $500 -$600 a pair for good quality stock, I have not seen any available for sale recently but I also have not really looked.
They require a lot of care, are very skittish and frighten easily. They are not easy to breed and don't produce very many eggs. To keep them properly they need a large flight cage, my pens are 18 ft long, 10 ft wide and 6 or 8 ft tall depending on the birds I am keeping in them. All of the pens have a barn at one end where I can keep them indoors in bad weather and each barn has electricity to it so it can be heated if I am keeping tropical birds in the pen. These birds can not tolerate cold, my grey jungle fowl get into the mid 30's but I don't let the greens get below 50. They also need a lot of cover and high perches to hide in, my outdoor runs have bamboo growing in them with perches up about 5 feet off the ground. They eat a lot of insects and greens, I raise my own mealworms and feed them daily along with crickets as a treat, this along with a mix of rice, vegetables and alfalfa is added to the regular crumble and grain mix I feed. If I am alone they are less shy but if anyone they don't recognize comes too close to the pens they will sometimes panic and fly into the wire, one day something spooked the cock and he got caught in the wire and hurt his leg, he limped for a week. I don't let anyone around their pen unless it is absolutely necessary.
If you end up with them they are beautiful and well worth the effort and extra care.
