Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[centrarchid]

Not from the area I am from. Those called Hatch today have a lot of Oriental in them and shows in more than than just the pea-comb. Type / station also looks Aseel-like. Hatch look I used to expect was more Old English looking with a rounder body profile.

 

[sdm111]

With all due respect centra u aren't mistaking high station, compact lean for a general asil look are you? No hatch I've seen round here favor oriental type but could be mistaken with breeding towards high station

 

[sdm111]

None are " blocky " type not here unless it's a deliberate cross

 

[sdm111]

Although this is a cross this is typical profile of a hatch round here. Note the station

 

[centrarchid]

Current "Hatch" in my area are the long-legged and tall design. Part of what made selection for that form was infusion of Aseel.

Some of the differences may also be regional. Especially when birds have not been moved around to all areas at similar rates. Area I am from may have been resistant to the introduction of Oriental blood and resulted to that relatively recently. Birds I can reference are from 40 years back and more. Selection pressures have varied during that interval alone and almost certainly did prior.

 

[sdm111]

I can see that cause my rubles came from up north and I would consider them med to med high and have not been crossed with anything I have already

 

[roosterhavoc]

I prefer higher station birds. They are better than those short stumpy things you call chickens from way back lol

 

[roosterhavoc]

what do you guys call this?

 

[sdm111]

Have to get a side shot

 

[centrarchid]

See these birds. Hen to rear-right at my grandfathers feet is Wheaton colored. Stag may be Wheaton as well although hen with him which was more typical of line was not.

Stag dinged up from a very recent return from a sporting event and was held in very high regard for some reason.

Picture was developed in May 1912 (5-12) somewhat prior to advent of digital cameras or even polaroid cameras. Note snow on ground which in all likelihood indicates picture taken a month two prior but not a year owing to limited shelf-life of exposed film. Picture taken on family farm in Grandview, Indiana. A few years later something else was added that was acquired as a single crappy looking cock from an Army buddy that lived in Wisconsin that my Great Uncle likened to a Mug. What I have and grew up around represents a composite of those inputs.