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[miss heny]

Discouraging would be going outside to a murder scene of chickens fighting not being informed that the skills are set higher with these

I'd rather be as they say keeping it real than sugar coat it. After all they are fighting chickens. They have a tendency to you know, fight lol

lol yes, fighters they be.. Which I am curious how does one officially show them :/ so you have like boards between the roosters so they do see each other or that? *random sleep thought of the day*

 

[attimus]

Dad on the top then 3 sons from two hatches. Color pattern of the last one?
Attimus

 

[JShubin]

Dad on the top then 3 sons from two hatches. Color pattern of the last one?
Attimus

you have any brown reds or redquills?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Don't let us discourage you from trying. Its probable that things could be fine with the right selection of non aggressive offspring.

I say go for it. And keep us posted

If a lot of people had this way of thinking we wouldn't even have gamefowl worth raising now. There are plenty of other breeds that do just fine raising their own chicks.
What exactly is a non aggressive gamefowl anyway? Even the hatchery birds are raised in such a way practically just the aggressive roosters mate the hens and the weenies get run off.

 

[JShubin]

If a lot of people had this way of thinking we wouldn't even have gamefowl worth raising now. There are plenty of other breeds that do just fine raising their own chicks.
What exactly is a non aggressive gamefowl anyway? Even the hatchery birds are raised in such a way practically just the aggressive roosters mate the hens and the weenies get run off.

Shes adding game to a non-game flock in an effort to improve those lines.. not vice versa.

Adding non-game blood into a game bloodline could/would most likely ruin the game line.

Like you guys have said before, most of the breeds we have today originated from gamefowl variations.

 

[miss heny]

I finally found my silkie hen broody

but for most part by game like birds have always been the best mothers and hatchers....Okay questioning my white sport I got because of how flighty she is when I pop my head into the nesting box, but she is brooding those eggs...I may be stealing her chicks just in case since they can be KK sired...

 

[attimus]

you have any brown reds or redquills?

Nope. started with the male and two hens. Jj kelso. No other game to breed.
Attimus

 

[JShubin]

Nope. started with the male and two hens. Jj kelso. No other game to breed.
Attimus

random mutation or throwback I would guess. that or some of your hens are having an affair Lol

 

[roosterhavoc]

Shes adding game to a non-game flock in an effort to improve those lines.. not vice versa. 

Adding non-game blood into a game bloodline could/would most likely ruin the game line.

Like you guys have said before, most of the breeds we have today originated from gamefowl variations.

I understand. There's a reason most backyard breeds are the way they are. Because single penning every chicken is a pain. Oh well. An incubator is less trouble than fooling with crossing games with the hopes of getting a mild mannered broody. To each their own though. Don't affect me in the least.

 

[centrarchid]

I finally found my silkie hen broody  but for most part by game like birds have always been the best mothers and hatchers....Okay questioning my white sport I got because of how flighty she is when I pop my head into the nesting box, but she is brooding those eggs...I may be stealing her chicks just in case since they can be KK sired...

Why not simply get a group of several (not one or two) game pullets and keep them in a larger pen equipped with multiple nesting sites? Fighting issues you are to have will be a function of both genetics and environment. The key variable you will be able manipulate will be the complexity of the social hierarchy. Sometimes more is better as scrapping is diffused. I am not able to keep two or sometimes even three hens together in a pen without a cock to break them up but once you get into larger groups the social problems become less of an issue. Once broods hatched hens with chicks need to be removed or chicks taken away from them.


On the genetics side I would acquire some hatchery strain games as they will likely be better suited for group keeping.