Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[roosterhavoc]

Fence is done. Time for a LA iced tea break.

 

[sdm111]

Now ya tslking. I just polished off a pitcher gots to make more

 

[Ravynscroft]

Games are hard feathered, breeds like Orpingtons are soft feathered... it's the stiffness of the feather shaft that is being described in that... tight or loose feathered is a different thing from hard or soft feathering...

But Havoc is right, healthy feathers always feel soft, lol...

 

[ameliadanielle]

Great post ha. I don't know with bb red bantams but alot of red gamefowl have both brown and Wheaton. Here's a Wheaton Albany there's a brown Albany also. I mostly get brown.

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Top picture would be a wheaten colored hen and bottom would be duckwing, or what the bb red hens look like. The rooster for the hen up top would be a red rooster, the bb red for the bottom hen would be a red rooster just like the other but with a black breast. I know more about color names with oegb than I do games. Pretty much my dad had red birds and grey birds. That was it. Like grey in games is silver duckwing in oegbs. It's so confusing.

 

[ameliadanielle]

ok just wondering since you talked about the heat and I noticed a term used here alot the term slinging thought you may have been in La.

Yeah, we're close to the swamp here too, being in the south part of the state. So it probably feels pretty similar to Lousiana. Lol. I think around here these are full sentences, "This heat!" Or, "The heat..." Hahahaha.

 

[ameliadanielle]

Games are hard feathered, breeds like Orpingtons are soft feathered... it's the stiffness of the feather shaft that is being described in that... tight or loose feathered is a different thing from hard or soft feathering...

But Havoc is right, healthy feathers always feel soft, lol...

My daughter says the games are shiney. Lol. Their feathers shine, mine just feel smooth.

 

[sdm111]

Yeah, we're close to the swamp here too, being in the south part of the state. So it probably feels pretty similar to Lousiana. Lol. I think around here these are full sentences, "This heat!" Or, "The heat..." Hahahaha.

or " **** it's hot"

 

[ameliadanielle]

or " **** it's hot"

Lmfao!

 

[ameliadanielle]

This is why the silkies only make good incubators in the winter. They get so hot in the summer they don't lay or go broody. I've gotten one egg in the past month between the three silkie hens I kept because they are pets. Probably won't start getting eggs from them regularly until November. They'll sit from November to April or early May. Then done. It's hot and humid enough outside you can just sit eggs out there and incubate them though. Lol. I get staggered hatches in the summer, always. I swear they start incubating before the hen starts sitting.

 

[ameliadanielle]

I've had whole hatches bake under a bird in the summer. The Muscovies were the worst when we had them. Their nests always went bad in the summer.