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[flypen]

same stag as above, born in Feb, Ozk Mtn Albany/Hatch

 

[flypen]

One of the brothers to the one above

 

[roosterhavoc]

One of the brothers to the one above

I like the pea comb cause that's a monster comb on the other one. No way I could keep that dude from getting frostbite. Good looking birds.

 

[flypen]

I like the pea comb cause that's a monster comb on the other one. No way I could keep that dude from getting frostbite. Good looking birds.

I like this cross, only one stag and one pullet came st8 comb this year

 

[centrarchid]

There are a few pics of the feathered leg gamefowl chick.

You have doubts. If not certain, then consider them not to be pure gamefowl. Even if they mature into something that looks game I would question their being such unless previous owner can give a very solid reason and you trust them. You are not likely able to test for gameness in the event they have the look.

I would consider them to be laying birds and try to reboot if games still of interest to you. Approach I use to get birds is too look at them first hand. That means seeing birds of direct interest and their close kin. That point is relaxed if I thoroughly trust the seller. You are often in a better situation when the person having birds thinks enough of your interest to actually give them to you and then to follow up with keeping in touch with how they are doing. That usually means you are dealing with someone local.

 

[Gotmearooster]

I should explain my post with the pics a bit better. Ok so the chick has the feathered legs. The mother to this chick is the hen i was refering to that was freeranging before i bought her. Knowing this. Is there a possibility the hen could have breed with a different type rooster while freeranging and when i bought her she had fertile eggs in her from that rooster still? is this possible?

 

[sdm111]

As in if you have a pure game hen and that hen breeds with a layer after the clutch of chicks that that breeding would produce if she were bred to a game rooster in the future would those chicks be all game? Is that what you're asking?

 

[sdm111]

A hen can lay fertile eggs from one breeding for approx. 10 to 14days. That's why when breeding game crosses if the hen is allowed to lay for about a mo from her last breeding till bred again she will only lay fertile eggs from the newest breeding no residual from the prior breeding

 

[sdm111]

I should explain my post with the pics a bit better. Ok so the chick has the feathered legs. The mother to this chick is the hen i was refering to that was freeranging before i bought her. Knowing this. Is there a possibility the hen could have breed with a different type rooster while freeranging and when i bought her she had fertile eggs in her from that rooster still? is this possible?

yes

 

[centrarchid]

You also can have built in genetic markers where the cock a given hen was bred to previously that throws chicks that have certain look. If you have a black-breasted red (BBR) hen that is bred to either a black or wheaton cock then chicks from such a cock will be easy to discern from another cock that is simply BBR. In your case you have a likely marker involving feathers on legs.