Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[SOHC-FTW]

Any of y'all from nc?

 

[centrarchid]

How long have some of y'all been seriously breeding games?

Depends on what you call seriously. When I was a kid in the 1970's we bred a couple hundred easily each year but I did not know what I was doing. Now with much fewer birds (50 to 75) from the same stock I know what I am doing. Learning curve proved steep for a long time.

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

How long have some of y'all been seriously breeding games?

Been Around Games 30 Years

 

[centrarchid]

jshubin, the link below may really tickle you.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160930085816.htm

I have not seen original paper but popular version above does not mention games as part of the domestics released. I have been to the Island spending a couple days just looking at the feral chickens. Predator pressure there, at least on adults is very light. Broods were small. Also my games can out fly those on the Island with little trouble.


Games of the bankovid type I think have oscilated back and forth through the process for thousands of year.

 

[B123]

that doesnt appear to be a blue but a Whitehackle

Thanks, I can see that, but SDM has some excellent blues!

 

[B123]

jshubin, the link below may really tickle you.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160930085816.htm

I have not seen original paper but popular version above does not mention games as part of the domestics released. I have been to the Island spending a couple days just looking at the feral chickens. Predator pressure there, at least on adults is very light. Broods were small. Also my games can out fly those on the Island with little trouble.


Games of the bankovid type I think have oscilated back and forth through the process for thousands of year.

I have not seen that population, but have enjoyed the "wild" chickens on the Big Islan which is more agricultural. Down in the orchards, there are lots of pheasants, turkeys and what appear to be game fowl, I use that loosely. Mongoose have been very hard on the nests and young of any ground or low nesting birds. It is pretty common to see game fowl yards driving around the Big Island

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

Not calling him out ,, but that hen could pass as one that came from my nest.

 

[centrarchid]

I have not seen that population, but have enjoyed the "wild" chickens on the Big Islan which is more agricultural.  Down in the orchards, there are lots of pheasants, turkeys and what appear to be game fowl, I use that loosely.  Mongoose have been very hard on the nests and young of any ground or low nesting birds.  It is pretty common to see game fowl yards driving around the Big Island 

I am surprised feral chickens can persist at all with the mongoose being so abundant. Mine could get off broods on ground reliably only when dogs patrolled a lot.

 

[JShubin]

jshubin, the link below may really tickle you.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160930085816.htm

I have not seen original paper but popular version above does not mention games as part of the domestics released. I have been to the Island spending a couple days just looking at the feral chickens. Predator pressure there, at least on adults is very light. Broods were small. Also my games can out fly those on the Island with little trouble.


Games of the bankovid type I think have oscilated back and forth through the process for thousands of year.

got to it before me.... I check articles on that site daily.

Yeah I would like to have heard about gamefowl's role in the feral populations. Perhaps domestic chickens is their reference to games. Or perhaps the existing population of Red Jungle fowl was a wrong assumption? Maybe those were the released games that reverted back to wild type after many years of cross breeding.

"Games of the bankovid type I think have oscilated back and forth through the process for thousands of year." <--- I think you are right... I have a feeling in the South Pacific, during times of turmoil and war, people would lose their farms and their chickens would be re-released back into the wild, where they would be breeding back to the red jungle fowl. I think I remember reading an article about the domestic banana going through similar process in the same region...

I went to Kaui once as a 6 year old... I would love to go now, only for feral chicken watching tho...

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

North briton Whitehackle, ,lil more flighty than the Morgan strain.