Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[Rocky64]

Is this a gamefowl, it looks like one. What kind is it, I've looked up both lavender and blue gamefowl, but with no avail.

 

[centrarchid]

i understand that. That's my real point unless predators are flat out killed you will almost always have an unacceptable loss no matter what kind of chickens you have. Albeit just wee bit more if all you had were modern day laying breeds. After all by keeping chickens is like dangling a hunk of meat over an alligator. Sooner or later you will have losses. Besides there are few of us with multiple pieces of land to run birds on. Imo it's quality over quantity now. Most will say overall the gamefowl of today are superior to that of the 1930s. That is being bred for the original purpose not to run around the backyard and avoid danger.

The setups I have experience with involved anywhere from 10 to 20 walks. Nearly half we owned. Also I doubt if even one in five stags hatched made it to the point where where they were placed in a pen. Generally we had the capacity for only 50 to 100 young-of-year stags each year. A fair portion we consumed as frying chickens but other losses also incurred. Despite this we always produced more stags than we could take into winter so the birds deemed not so good were sold. Only a portion of the balance ever got to be used for breeding. You are going have help me understand how such a system places quantity or quality.

The birds from the 1930's and before were shaped by more selective pressures that maintained the characteristics associated with good free-range qualities. Removing the selective pressure dilutes the free-ranging qualities just as not selecting for gameness enables a loss of gameness. I can't tell by looking or felling a pen raised bird, or any bird for that matter by just seeing and feeling it and sometimes I can't even take someones word for either.

 

[centrarchid]

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See the "false" above. I do not put it there yet it pops up every time I post. Normally it disappears but my son hit button causing almost a double post. I think it is a subliminal message planted by mods to make me feel bad. Evil buggers.

 

[centrarchid]

Is this a gamefowl, it looks like one. What kind is it, I've looked up both lavender and blue gamefowl, but with no avail.

I do not think it is a gamefowl. Such is likely a bantam that has been bred to a have several fixed or otherwise odd color mutations not likely to be bred true in any games. The genetics to make such almost certainly exist with gamefowl but you would have to commit to breeding a lot for color to create such a critter.

 

[Rocky64]

I do not think it is a gamefowl. Such is likely a bantam that has been bred to a have several fixed or otherwise odd color mutations not likely to be bred true in any games. The genetics to make such almost certainly exist with gamefowl but you would have to commit to breeding a lot for color to create such a critter.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up. It would be cool if someone made a consistent strain of lavender gamefowl though.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Quality= gameness. That's the intended purpose. Free ranging qualities would be secondary in my opinion especially now with the relative scarcity of available land.
I have birds bred for feathers. That's their purpose. I don't really care how well they free range either. The idea of free ranging is both better for the bird and the owner, since it requires far less work. Shame I don't have more land. Besides I do let the birds run around thd yard and eat bugs and grass before penning age, which came at 4 months for some. I still do let them out of the pens whenever I can, not the same I know but the best I can do.

 

[roosterhavoc]

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Ha gonna kick u out of here too

See the "false" above. I do not put it there yet it pops up every time I post. Normally it disappears but my son hit button causing almost a double post. I think it is a subliminal message planted by mods to make me feel bad. Evil buggers.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I don't blame you for not taking someone's word. I wouldn't either especially when I've seen an awful lot of over the age stags together many times just frolicking about the yard throughout the web.

 

[flypen]

snowing yesterday baby chick tomorrow. I just got more snow again today but no chicks

I have a 100% hatch going in the bator, I'm just hoping she does as well.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I have a 100% hatch going in the bator, I'm just hoping she does as well.

thats great. Your pumping them out this year. How many of them birds you planning on keeping?