Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[SOHC-FTW]

I just seen em on some guys game hens and figured is ask as like ya said the ones you want to breed are the ones that you usually can't. Thought it may be a way to work around such issues.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I would wonder why they are needed. Multiple hens together? Feather picking etc.. peepers won't allow me to just take two hens from different pens and put them together. They'll still fight. It's just the pecking it solves.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Havoc you don't mess around, I feel like you would cull for a discolored fingernail lol

I'm no different than most. I have a lot of birds and can be more selective that's all. I'm much quicker to cull hens/pullets than I am stags. Hens are more important.

 

[centrarchid]

Have you experimented with peepers to determine effects on hen - hen aggression?

 

[Texicano]

Toppie Muff??? LOL

 

[roosterhavoc]

@JShubin
You said you would buy one a couple years ago since it seemed like a worthy cause to you. $25 is a small price to pay for conservation.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Have you experimented with peepers to determine effects on hen - hen aggression?

Not sure what you mean by experimented. I've used them before. They can barely see well enough. I would say if they are fairly aggressive to begin with that it might lessen the aggression some but that wasn't why I used them. The particular birds I used them on were also kinda flighty so they weren't high on the list.

 

[centrarchid]

Aggression sequence where it is mutual involves a lateral display. The peeper might disrupt that making so aggressive intent less impactful or less likely to be sustained. It must operate before birds come to full blows. Even when unable to see at all they will fight based on sound alone, but partial vision might stop real fighting.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Aggression sequence where it is mutual involves a lateral display. The peeper might disrupt that making so aggressive intent less impactful or less likely to be sustained. It must operate before birds come to full blows. Even when unable to see at all they will fight based on sound alone, but partial vision might stop real fighting.

Never tried with aggressive birds. At best you'd end up with less than perfect feathers and unhappy birds

 

[centrarchid]

I think the pinless things creates unhappy regardless, like the cones put on a dog to keep it from inspecting self. Might still be a way to manage aggression. I am going to get a couple see what happens.