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[flypen]

High noon hatch pair 7 months old

 

[flypen]

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

I'll sell a few and keep enough to continue line breeding the pure ones.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I'll sell a few and keep enough to continue line breeding the pure ones.

gotcha not that it's any of my business I was just curious, and jealous since it's still too cold here to do much hatching. Weather is starting to ease up a bit. After the next two days it's gonna warm up a bit.

 

[centrarchid]

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.

Quality involves a great deal more than gameness. Some of the quality is a function of how the birds are reared. It does very much consider physical ability. Being true game alone does not ensure the physical ability. The free-range challenges enable birds to develop physically and those falling short are the most likely not to thrive / survive the free-range setting.

Lacking in either the gameness or physical ability department is a show stopper. One of my favorite ways to assess a bird is to observe its performance on a wing. You can have a huge range of flight performances which is a combination of genetics and conditioning. Stronger, faster and longer flights followed by very short refractory period are what I look for as measures of sprinting and endurance performance.


The free-range setting for me cost a lot more than rearing in confinement. A lot more, but it involves a lot less risk.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Without gameness nothing else matters though. The will is most important.
I guess it would depend on how many birds you had to decide which way of rearing is more work and involves more investment. Multiple ways to get to the same point though.

 

[centrarchid]

Note I am skirting around discussion of gameness. Discussing selection for such is a clear violation of forum rules. I am very much on the in line to be booted off list so not trying to expedite that process.

 

[flypen]

Prolly the corner of st. Charles and poydras

500 Poydras is the address lol you were right

 

[roosterhavoc]

Note I am skirting around discussion of gameness. Discussing selection for such is a clear violation of forum rules. I am very much on the in line to be booted off list so not trying to expedite that process.

agreed

 

[sdm111]

500 Poydras is the address lol you were right

Yeah u not gonna be able to be anymore in New Orleans poydras is the exact center of the city watch the one way streets and street cars

 

[flypen]

Yeah u not gonna be able to be anymore in New Orleans poydras is the exact center of the city watch the one way streets and street cars

The hotel is only 2 blocks away so that'll help