Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[JShubin]

She looks nice. It is hard for me to tell from the pic, but is she a little smaller than your American Games?

yea she is but not by much... she is definitely over 2lbs.. I think the guy who gifted her to me purposely gave me a bigger hen. Because he knew I had Americans and I had mentioned that.

She is really nice, has wing band as well. She is tough and is not afraid to scrap with my American hens. Routed off a few, except my biggest hatches (which probably outweigh her by 2 lbs).

 

[HALLIDAY]

Why roosterhavoc

 

[centrarchid]

Nuce looking birds. A point I will bring up is they appear to be Old English Game Bantams. If correct, then not only are they not American Games, then they are not even Gamefowl by behavior or ancestry. If they are American Game Bantams then i stand corrected. The American Game Bantams are derived from American Games and by most accounts are also game in behavior.

 

[centrarchid]

Check out hens below in terms of how they are holding feathers of body and tail. It is a seasonal thing that follows entering the new adult feather set. For the next month or so those I have free range (2 for me this year) will be flying a lot more than usual. They will fly across field to me when they see me carrying feed bucket. They will also spontaneously fly sometimes a hundred feet or so to land up on something and it is not in response to being frightened. They are also sneakier. When they are on a hillside or starting from an elevated perch they will fly what amounts to loops where landing point may be the same location they started from. It is during this interval hens and pullets act decidedly not game.

When this all stops, the hens will start holding tail feathers in more typical fan and be less inclined to burn so much energy. They will also resume the more typical belligerent attitude I associate with settled in adults.


Bucks in rut here driving my dogs nuts. Dogs can push them out of yard but bucks doing something sustained in neighbors field. I think they are using neighbors fancy tree plantings as a scrape / display area. Darn bucks are popping up in all sorts of random spots and do not seem to see anything but other deer.

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

1st egger this week Round head x Mt Grey,sorry bout the extra wire but i double up with netting to deter Reach ins.

 

[centrarchid]

What is a Mt. Grey?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Mule train = Lonnie Harper breeder

 

[roosterhavoc]

Why roosterhavoc

Random posts going missing

 

[centrarchid]

Mule train = Lonnie Harper breeder

Got it. Not used to using the long drawn out names. When it comes to greys, I never got past simply calling the grey because those had never pure and often little more than grey grades.

 

[centrarchid]

I got yet another late brood of chicks knocking the stuffings out of each other. I put the whole lot down in with a bullstag and I can see something is going on where stag stands among them holding his head down at their level. He does not do anything obviously aggressive but the fighting is slowly subsiding. The effect is not immediate. When change slower it makes me think it in part hormone related. This round only stags doing it. All have different voices when in this mode.