Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[SOHC-FTW]

They are learning hands on.... Hands on phone or tablet lol.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Probably think the world is flat as a consequence, lol...

 

[roosterhavoc]

Probably think the world is flat as a consequence, lol...

It isnt? Next your tell me Pluto is no longer a planet.

 

[doubleleft]

beautiful birds. I've bet you've seen alot and thanks for all the time you put in to keep them I bet it's been an enjoyable journey something i could only imagine. Your pens are about what 10-20yrs older than me lol. Bet you got some stories too

Thanks by the doings YOU and like minded people all of us can know much less have and can enjoy the gamecock thanks

Thanks SDM, I've enjoyed all my time with game-chickens which started at about the age of 7 and now had them over 65 years at 72. It was pure magical for so many years, my love for them is just as strong today as it was back then. I was the only one in my family that has cared for them, but my dad always saw that I had some. Strange thing was, I had as good access to good blood back then as I have today (lol).
I Lived close to Bubba And Elmer Griffin(Griffin Claret Fame).
The very best gamefowl i ever owned (Hands Down) were the white leg, straight comb Griffin Clarets. I got them years later after Griffins passed on from an old guy no body knew or ever heard of and he never told me where they came from.
I've done a lot of things and wish I had done more and used my brains when I started to become ill (i have Parkinson's, an inoperative neck, and lower back. I can barely walk due to the lower back, I won't go into all the other problems.
I worked 37 yrs w/Alabama ABC Board, Wholesale Liquor Div. retired 5 yrs early w/disabilities. I've been retired about 12 yrs.
But one thing I will say is to you younger & older guys be very careful in the decisions you make as they will be with you for the entire trip. After saying all that I would just assume to keep things like they are than to try going thru it again (no telling what kind of a mess i would get myself into, given a second chance).
Treat your fellow GameFowl Man with Extra Respect, kindness and forgiving, as there are only a few of us out here & about and cause we want it to increase from goodness within.

 

[B123]

Centra,

What specifically are you getting push back from? What are their primary concerns?

 

[B123]

SDM and Flypen,

Hope all goes well. This storm looks like a slow moving soaker.

 

[sdm111]

You know how it is, some of the guys lost a lot of their fowl last year in the last flooding rain.

that was crazy our shop is about a quarter mile from the bogue falaya river and it got along with the owners home a couple feet of water and his property us high compared to the rest. Wild part is it wasn't raining water started coming from the woods and just kept rising nobody knew why or when it was gonna stop. We moved all the vehicles and got stuff off the ground as best we could. My boss ended up being rescued by sheriffs in a duece and a half.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

that was crazy our shop is about a quarter mile from the bogue falaya river and it got along with the owners home a couple feet of water and his property us high compared to the rest. Wild part is it wasn't raining water started coming from the woods and just kept rising nobody knew why or when it was gonna stop. We moved all the vehicles and got stuff off the ground as best we could. My boss ended up being rescued by sheriffs in a duece and a half.

Crazy... could it have been from another area, that happens in fact a co worker and myself have been trying to figure out where a flash flood that took out towns and bridges came from on the American, by looking at maps and comparing our travel/camping notes of the river ways, as that question has never been answered we are guessing it had to originate in the mountains and we are now thinking their is this one marsh area on the South Fork that might have been the source... if that marsh became blocked sufficiently over a period of time and add snowpack melt when the blockage breached it would be a hell of a lot of water. Thermodynamics of the mountain range is also an option... volcanic actions. Could it have been something like that... water from a source way up the river system?

We have noted maps versus satalite is wrong, as some mountains have been leveled more or less compaired to out of date maps... pioneers sometimes latter blasted them flatter. Highway historic markers are often wrong too... this is annoying if looking for history or mapping reasons. There are historic sites purposefully mislocated or even not discussed like the plague army fort up in the mountains. The plague fort site is still a contagion concern.

 

[sdm111]

In the spring time alot of water from rain and snowmelt converge into the Mississippi River from Canada all the way to here in Louisiana. The river gets really high probability 20-30' higher than the land because of the levees that are along side the river I've posted pics showing ships higher than the roadway. Anyway there's spillways that can be opened to divert river water into the atchafalaya basin, the honey island swamp and another spillway I can't remember the name. Anyway that coupled with a deluge of rain days prior in North Louisiana and here was just too much for the bayous, Rivers and tributaries and it all has to go somewhere so it overtopped the waterways and flooded all the lower lining areas which is basically everywhere around here. My property alone is 18" below sea level which is considered high for here so water can't drain anywhere it has to either evaporate or get sucked up by the ground BUT being literally a quarter mile from 40something thousand acreas of marshland the ground is already soaked and can't suck up much. Literally one puddle of water will stay in my yard till it grows alge. And with it raining everyday and being so humid water doesn't evaporate quick at all

All that said though I wouldn't want to live anywhere else

*Bonnet Carre spillway. Remembered

 

[sdm111]

Here's a good visual. The bonnet carre spillway. When needed the Corp of engineers can pull up basically big rail road ties with cranes on tracks and flood all the land to the left to lower the Mississippi River to the right

that spillway goes into the atchafalaya basin and some into lake ponchatrain. They don't like to open it unless absolutely necessary cause it makes the lake muddy and introduces fresh water that can kill the saltwater life and drive the rest out to the gulf