Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[roosterhavoc]

now if my wife will help me I may be able to get a few done tonight.

 

[flypen]

150? No not games, they'll split up in to small flocks (8-10) and establish their own territories and because of the game bloodline they'll fight till one dies or runs off or in case of a battle royal where you'll have multiple cocks fighting and the lesser (dunghill) wins because he wouldn't join in. Then your gamefowl will be on it's way down hill.

 

[sdm111]

what you think SDM?

I think around here if they stayed where the woods meet the marsh it could work if the initial infusion was a lot of chickens. There would be lots of cover, regular hardwood type forests I think they would fade out like flypen said

 

[JShubin]

150? No not games, they'll split up in to small flocks (8-10) and establish their own territories and because of the game bloodline they'll fight till one dies or runs off or in case of a battle royal where you'll have multiple cocks fighting and the lesser (dunghill) wins because he wouldn't join in. Then your gamefowl will be on it's way down hill.

yeah. I agree with everything you just said.

I am thinking any wild populations that survive would turn into what they have in Hawaii. Because we have a higher predator population than HI I think there will be some differences, like better camouflage, sustained flight, fear, and time spent in trees.

Because I havent dropped off any adult cocks, I would like to think stags would go there separate ways before any battle royales takes place. There would plenty of room for a stag to run off with a few pullets.

I intend to keep my own flock at home separate, and only take culls/extra out to the property. not vice versa.

 

[JShubin]

I may completely delusional, but its fun idea to ponder and experiment.

Johnny Chicken Seed.

 

[B123]

yeah. I agree with everything you just said.

I am thinking any wild populations that survive would turn into what they have in Hawaii. Because we have a higher predator population than HI I think there will be some differences, like better camouflage, sustained flight, fear, and time spent in trees.

Flypen had an interesting thought that the "less game" males would survive due to their standing back from the fights. I am not sure on this one... I can see it going both ways. My grandfather got out of actively raising games, but they lived in kind of a "wild state" around his dairy farm when I was a young kid. They were "reds", not sure if they were any good. They survived, perhaps the dogs offered some protection. They tended to live in smaller groups, and the only time there was a battle royal was in the spring! Wish I still had some just to see...

Shubin, they have mongoose in HI and they are really hard on birds, especially the nests and the babies. I am not sure of any other real predators, except maybe the hogs, but those mongoose sure make it hard to have chickens.

 

[sdm111]

That's kind of the same as I suggested months ago that games left free range only the dunghill would survive cause they would run and hide and not what one would think that the best most game would survive. They would stand their ground and become hawk and Fox food

 

[roosterhavoc]

Just release mountain quail, blue scaled, maybe some gambels a few coturnix and call it a day.
Pretty sure even the wild jungle fowl breed with the more domesticated chickens on the fringes which is probably hurting the overall populations where they are native.
Not gonna happen jungle jack Hanna

 

[marque]

I'm kind of confused here. Isn't this a sight for chicken/bird lovers???? Isn't there a "HUNTING SITE" that you can go discuss killing on????

 

[roosterhavoc]

Sdm111 u see any deer?