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[Rocky64]

No I was just saying that Any chicken can be guilty of chasing your other pets

Oh, ok. Thanks for the info, looking forward to contributing pics to this thread.

 

[plara92]

Sweater?

yes possum

 

[jonservidio]

it's my understanding, leghorns got their start from dunghill games.

the cats will be ok, they will just stay out of their way.

I would think most dogs could kill the chickens in a heartbeat, I know a little jack russel killed about 10 meat birds before my buddy could put the boot to him, lol

 

[JShubin]

 

[Regular Guy]

I don't remember where I read it, but the topic was something about attitudes, for a lack of better terminology. We've all witnessed something like this before. Maybe you're in a bar and everybody is more or less getting along and having a good time. There is a guy sitting at the bar and he's not bothering anybody, but inside, he's a little unsettled. Then 'the other guy' walks in the door and he's the same way. They don't even know each other, but they are drawn to each other. One say's something offhand and the other replies in kind and before you know it they're fist fighting. They were destined to fight it out. You couldn't see it or smell it, but they were putting off signals the other picked up on. They 'clicked'.

A properly bred game animal is the same way. You may rarely get a cock that's a 'man fighter'. The reason it's rare is because for hundreds or thousands of years people had sense enough to put the bad ones down in short order because they didn't want to replicate that. Forget about how the media sensationalizes stories most of which usually contain only fragments of distorted facts and sometimes downright misinformation or lies. To keep the post short, I won't get into how some modern day morons have managed to undermind hundreds of thousands of breeders before them. It's safe to say though that the vast majority of the time most animals have not had the extra emphasized benefit of going the extra mile to ensure that said breeds are of the utmost ideal quality when it comes to their breeding in reqards to having a steller disposition with humans.

The reason I'm pointing these things out is to give you an idea of what makes a game animal, or in this case, a gamecock tick. As long as no other cocks or stags are around they are just a regular chicken and they do what chickens do. There is a bell curve in EVERY breed of anything and sometimes you get the 'strange bird'. Ironically, extremely less so in game breeds (because of their breeding). Now I am not endorsing fighting anything here and for the record I think it's cruel and I don't take part in it, but this is just to point out 'how gamecocks see things'. Again, and this took place decades ago, in something I read somewhere about an actual case where a man was brought to court for fighting cocks. The judge and jury went to the man's farm to show them the evidence of his testimony. He put a cock down on the ground with some hens and feed and he acted just like a chicken. Then, he brought out another gamecock in a cage and sat it down nearby. Of his own accord, the cock left the feed and his hens and proceeded to break his legs trying to get to the other cock. The man was found not quilty because the cocks were 'doing what they do'.

A gamecock becomes a warrior that will fight to the death in the presence of another cock. Unless you get the rare 'man fighter' and as long as you're not a cock you have no need to fear a gamecock (or any other game animal).They are chickens. They do what chickens do.

 

[Sirius452]

On Topic: A picture of my rooster.

Off Topic noob question: Do games lay brown eggs? I've found off white eggs in my nest box so I know the feral game hens are laying in my coop but I have found 3 brown eggs a day for 4 days and only have 2 hens? Could one of the ferals be laying brown eggs? I'd rather not eat their eggs since they eat mostly cat food.

 

[maranfarmer563]

Mine are mainly tinted eggs. I would eat them no matter what they ate. Cat food just protein when digested

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I totally agree people have really messed up the dispositions of several breeds of chickens by paying absolutely no attention to the animals reactions to humans and breeding birds that exhibit "man eater" behaviors.

I do suspect some issues may have a human component (besides just bad breeding) that perhaps exasperates the problem or creates a stressful stimuli for the birds that causes them to behave in ways we humans no like. Once this behavior becomes habit to the bird(s) it is a huge problem and will be hard to correct without involving the cooking pot. I am not saying people are intending to create issues in their birds but rather they may be doing things that make sense to humans (maybe not so much to chickens) & that sets up the conditions for failure.

I think people forget the different breeds of chicken can have different needs. I also think people forget chickens think & behave like chickens and not like humans, so they project expectations onto the birds they should not.

 

[maranfarmer563]

There is one site on here where they give laying hens organic protein by hanging a bucket with holes drilled in in in the run. Then they pick up some road kill,like a dead wood chuck and put in the bucket. Wait for fly's to find it then the maggots come out the hole in the bucket and the chickens eat them. That would be high protein organic food, they eat those eggs too

 

[Jungleexplorer]

I don't remember where I read it, but the topic was something about attitudes, for a lack of better terminology. We've all witnessed something like this before. Maybe you're in a bar and everybody is more or less getting along and having a good time. There is a guy sitting at the bar and he's not bothering anybody, but inside, he's a little unsettled. Then 'the other guy' walks in the door and he's the same way. They don't even know each other, but they are drawn to each other. One say's something offhand and the other replies in kind and before you know it they're fist fighting. They were destined to fight it out. You couldn't see it or smell it, but they were putting off signals the other picked up on. They 'clicked'.

A properly bred game animal is the same way. You may rarely get a cock that's a 'man fighter'. The reason it's rare is because for hundreds or thousands of years people had sense enough to put the bad ones down in short order because they didn't want to replicate that. Forget about how the media sensationalizes stories most of which usually contain only fragments of distorted facts and sometimes downright misinformation or lies. To keep the post short, I won't get into how some modern day morons have managed to undermind hundreds of thousands of breeders before them. It's safe to say though that the vast majority of the time most animals have not had the extra emphasized benefit of going the extra mile to ensure that said breeds are of the utmost ideal quality when it comes to their breeding in reqards to having a steller disposition with humans.

The reason I'm pointing these things out is to give you an idea of what makes a game animal, or in this case, a gamecock tick. As long as no other cocks or stags are around they are just a regular chicken and they do what chickens do. There is a bell curve in EVERY breed of anything and sometimes you get the 'strange bird'. Ironically, extremely less so in game breeds (because of their breeding). Now I am not endorsing fighting anything here and for the record I think it's cruel and I don't take part in it, but this is just to point out 'how gamecocks see things'. Again, and this took place decades ago, in something I read somewhere about an actual case where a man was brought to court for fighting cocks. The judge and jury went to the man's farm to show them the evidence of his testimony. He put a cock down on the ground with some hens and feed and he acted just like a chicken. Then, he brought out another gamecock in a cage and sat it down nearby. Of his own accord, the cock left the feed and his hens and proceeded to break his legs trying to get to the other cock. The man was found not quilty because the cocks were 'doing what they do'.

A gamecock becomes a warrior that will fight to the death in the presence of another cock. Unless you get the rare 'man fighter' and as long as you're not a cock you have no need to fear a gamecock (or any other game animal).They are chickens. They do what chickens do.

As I have said before and I will say again. It is an inherent instinct in all kinds of animals to establish dominance in a herd or flock. This instinct usually takes the form of brutal combat between males of the that kind. This is true of all breeds of chickens, not just games. Take any rooster of any breed, isolate it with it's own hens for a while or take it to a new farm and there will be immediate violent combat between that rooster and any other rooster it comes in contact with. This is totally natural and completely necessary as a mechanism of survival, if the birds were in a wild existence. There is nothing evil about this natural instinct. What is evil, is when man tries to manipulate this natural instinct into something destructive for his own profit, pride or personal glory. But the evil occurs only on the part of man, for in order for one to create evil, one must be able to comprehend what is right and wrong. Humans have all kinds of natural but evil desires that we must must resist everyday because we know they are wrong. But we often try to excuse our behavior by saying, "Well, it's only natural". If this were a valid argument, then it should be okay to go rob a bank, because it is a natural desire to want to be rich, or to punch that guys lights out that cut you off in traffic. But no, since we as humans have the ability to comprehend the difference between right and wrong, and also the ability to choose whether to follow or resist our negative natural desires, then we cannot justify our actions based on the argument of "Natural Instinct or Desire".