Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[doubleleft]

My father had the Allen's, they were mean as a snake. I remember when I was a kid and he'd tell me to do something with any of them I'd take off in the house and come back with a coat on so they couldn't eat a hole in my arm.

Mine were light red, white tail streamers and white in wings (easy to handle)

 

[doubleleft]

@doubleleft if you could reach back to the earlier years to bring back one family of broodfowl what would it be?

The white leg Griffins i had in late 70's and 80's.

 

[flypen]

Mine were light red, white tail streamers and white in wings (easy to handle)

I remember them having some white feathers and streamers, yellow legs, and a medium red color. Me being a kid and wanting to do more playing than work, I remember his Lacys were very gentle and some of them would fly up on my arm or shoulder when I was cleaning pens or feeding.

 

[doubleleft]

Man O Man this looks good ........

(don't know where the rest of this message is, but something looked good) lol

I was complimenting Shubin on his new land purchase(my brain wakes up ever so often).
Shubin, don't cut any of the trees down

 

[flypen]

The white leg Griffins i had in late 70's and 80's.

If I could reach back for one family it would be the pair of Butchers that Mr. John Sears gifted me when I first started raising my own gamefowl. The original pair

 

[Texicano]

If I could reach back for one family it would be the pair of Butchers that Mr. John Sears gifted me when I first started raising my own gamefowl. The original pair

Whatever happened to that line?

 

[flypen]

Whatever happened to that line?

Sometimes when you are young, you think you know everything about breeding gamefowl because you grew up around them but to be honest I didn't realize why you line breed - in breed. In just a few years I had lost the original cock and several needed hens to a dog. I in-bred the ones I had left so many times they went to junk. I know all I had to do was ask, I had so many famous men that I saw all the time at the pits and they were always asking me if everything was going good. Now that I'm the older one I enjoy helping my nephews, I was young and dumb. If I could go back knowing what I know now, wow it would be incredible. All the old timers back then were Awesome, they would help you with anything you needed.

 

[doubleleft]

I am shocked at how little the people on Facebook and at the shows know about breeding their birds. Classes in Animal Husbandry are needed)
I can tell you exactly how the first roosters we showed in late 50's and early 60's were bred (1/2 Griffin 1/4 Allen RH 1//4 unknown) they could take the butter off your toast and you never know they were there....... we were spoiled by having so many country walks and most roosters we met were coming out of roundpens. We showed one of them 3 times in one day untouched and sold him to a guy that fought on major circuit on went on to show him 8 more times and put him on yard to raise out of him and a dog killed him.

 

[Ralph Suniga]

I have three clutches on the ground 1st and 2nd hatched on oct 15 and on the 30 of oct my last clutch hatched out on 1st of jan they are butcher over lacy grey over hatch and the last is butcher over brown red

 

[Ralph Suniga]

was looking for some claret blood line and kelso blood line want to start off with a pair of each is this to small of amount