Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[sdm111]

I know all the guys on here will be mad at me.. but I think its a good idea. If you want something specific than go ahead and breed it. If it works then more power to you.

I cross breed different strains of games all the time and I have good results despite discouragment from "pure' bred enthusiasts.

yeah well you don't see people crossing like cocker spaniel and Rottweilers do you? Just kidding do what you do but just for the record I can't possibly be anymore against that Just saying but like I said before it'd be pretty boring world if everybody liked green lol

 

[homeflock]

no problem keep us up to date.. I'd like to see these crosses as they grow up and see if your experiemtn works.

Will do the welsummers are only a week old so this year gives me a chance to start breeding the game chickens I'm planning to line breed them an use extras to make the cross.

 

[homeflock]

yeah well you don't see people crossing like cocker spaniel and Rottweilers do you? Just kidding do what you do but just for the record I can't possibly be anymore against that Just saying but like I said before it'd be pretty boring world if everybody liked green lol

Like I said I'm completely for maintaining breeds an lines because breeders have put a lot of time an effort into developing them and it is important to preserve them for the future. But at the same time if someone hadn't done some crosses in the past we wouldn't have the breeds that we have now. So there is a time an place for everything. I'm not as experienced in the fowl breeding world but have been breeding registered cattle for a long time so I know where your coming from it drives me crazy sometimes to see a really good Angus cow to something other than Angus but I guess it takes good purebreds to make a good cross.

 

[sdm111]

Do what u do man in just messing with shubin. But just to be clear even though I'm messing with him still 100%

 

[roosterhavoc]

Females will be good all around most likely. From what I have heard people say, the roosters will fight but run... which is what most roosters do anyways.

My good friend bred my game hen to an Ameracana rooster. The females were perfect... and the males were really tough and needed to be seperated, but she ended up selling them. So I never saw them as full cocks to see how they acted.

You might loose the winter laying ability, because games wont lay in winter time... unless measures are taken to give them more hours of light (just learned this)

i wonder what description of those roosters for sale was? Game mix? Aggressive Easter egger? There's the issue. They get passed around and the bloodline weakened, by adding laying breeds. Someone else gets ahold of them and they look like games but they are only partial and get passed off as such.

 

[roosterhavoc]

To each their own. I non concur.

 

[homeflock]

i wonder what description of those roosters for sale was? Game mix? Aggressive Easter egger? There's the issue. They get passed around and the bloodline weakened, by adding laying breeds. Someone else gets ahold of them and they look like games but they are only partial and get passed off as such.

got that part covered. I'd already thought about it an don't want to dilute the american game breed so any extra roosters an cull hens will go in the freezer.
Thanks for all your help guys and keep up the good work with the games.

 

[sdm111]

i wonder what description of those roosters for sale was? Game mix? Aggressive Easter egger? There's the issue. They get passed around and the bloodline weakened, by adding laying breeds. Someone else gets ahold of them and they look like games but they are only partial and get passed off as such.

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[centrarchid]

got that part covered. I'd already thought about it an don't want to dilute the american game breed so any extra roosters an cull hens will go in the freezer.
Thanks for all your help guys and keep up the good work with the games.

If you create the right crosses, you will have body type and coloration to unambiguously discern the crosses from the games you are trying to keep pure. You might consider white rock hens bred to your game cock then place those resulting hybrid embryos under your pure game hens for rearing. That give you a bird that grows well and forages well. Also do not forget other ways to ensure your birds do not get eaten. Even pure games need some protection.

 

[sdm111]

Some pssh I for one am proof u need good protection for games they not bulletproof by a long shot