Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[centrarchid]

I am still looking.

 

[JShubin]

Ameraucana x game cross would be how I would have labeled/sold them. I dont know how my friend sold them but she would have likely said the same thing.

Adding non-game blood to games is obviously detrimental to gamefowl, but I think the opposite can be true for backyard chickens. Adding game blood to standard/production breeds can be advantageous, like the case with homeflock. Some off the crosses will have best of both breeds, and some will be worst of the breeds. She seems responsible enough to make this distinction and has no plans to claim/sell them as pure games.

Hey my wife is a half breed (Jamacian x American) and she is working out ok. Her brother on the other hand needs to be culled... lol
rotspaneil mix...

 

[flypen]

Pure Bennett Hatch

 

[JShubin]

Pure Bennett Hatch

Wow that is a cool looking game. Are the legs brown?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Ameraucana x game cross would be how I would have labeled/sold them. I dont know how my friend sold them but she would have likely said the same thing. Adding non-game blood to games is obviously detrimental to gamefowl, but I think the opposite can be true for backyard chickens. Adding game blood to standard/production breeds can be advantageous, like the case with homeflock. Some off the crosses will have best of both breeds, and some will be worst of the breeds. She seems responsible enough to make this distinction and has no plans to claim/sell them as pure games. Hey my wife is a half breed (Jamacian x American) and she is working out ok. Her brother on the other hand needs to be culled... lol rotspaneil mix...

I have layers and games. I have no problem getting enough eggs and more than enough broody hens just out of the layers. The layers free range all day everyday and I lock em up at night. I lose a few every now and then but that is mostly to fox. Games stand no better chance of evading a fox. Just get a silkie to sit on eggs and be done with it. my silkie will sit all year long if I let her. If people are losing too many chickens to predators maybe some sort of prevention is in order not trying to come up with some kind of soldier of fortune chicken that will lay 365 eggs a year, whip a coyote on one leg and will steer clear of every raptor in the sky oh and that you can house together. Not gonna happen

 

[centrarchid]

I have layers and games. I have no problem getting enough eggs and more than enough broody hens just out of the layers. The layers free range all day everyday and I lock em up at night. I lose a few every now and then but that is mostly to fox. Games stand no better chance of evading a fox. Just get a silkie to sit on eggs and be done with it. my silkie will sit all year long if I let her. If people are losing too many chickens to predators maybe some sort of prevention is in order not trying to come up with some kind of soldier of fortune chicken that will lay 365 eggs a year, whip a coyote on one leg and will steer clear of every raptor in the sky oh and that you can house together. Not gonna happen

If I put out a flock of 50 hens, 25 each of games and American Domininques, every last American Dominique will be taken by ground predators and hawks before I loose the first five games. The silkies will be hammered before the American Dominiques. The birds can also learn from experience what to do correctly to avoid being captured by predators. My games when chronically pushed by foxes or coyotes start flying like pheasant and generally get real spooky. You loose a few as the survivors are sensitized. Sensitized means more than changes in behavior; some physiological changes involved as well and they may impact even developing embryos.

 

[jldward]

If I put out a flock of 50 hens, 25 each of games and American Domininques, every last American Dominique will be taken by ground predators and hawks before I loose the first five games. The silkies will be hammered before the American Dominiques. The birds can also learn from experience what to do correctly to avoid being captured by predators. My games when chronically pushed by foxes or coyotes start flying like pheasant and generally get real spooky. You loose a few as the survivors are sensitized. Sensitized means more than changes in behavior; some physiological changes involved as well and they may impact even developing embryos.

I agree for the most part. That's one of the biggest perks to games as far as we're concerned...our term is "survivability", although we did get hit kinda hard last year by a fox that was getting youngsters that ventured outside our perimeter fence. Fox & owls.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I don't understand the point of taking a domesticated animal and trying eveything in your power to make it wild again. I Know games are better suited for free ranging. But once again there are other breeds that are every bit as capable. Ancona for example

 

[roosterhavoc]

If a fox wants the bird. He will get it sooner or later.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Generally the more wary and capable of surviving the Wild the harder they would be to handle if you could at all. If so what would be the point? After all it's a domesticated animal. I personally am not trying to run a zoo.