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[Brahma Chicken5000]

@Brahma Chicken5000 why are you interested in gamefowl? Are you interested in the gameness or something else?

I like their gameness, the fact that they can free range so well, and for their brooding qualities.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

That’s my whole point. Letting them run loose and butchering is one thing but nowadays everyone has their birds in complete, secure pens because god forbid a hawk gives them a dirty look. Those same birds that thinned themselves out would more than likely be kept in the ever trendy “bachelor pens” ripping each other to shreds while their owners searched online for help.

Well we didn't have the internet back then to tell us we were doing it wrong

My chicken know-how resource back then was old people... and most of them would just look at you funny if you asked them chicken questions... which I guess was better than them making up nonsense.

These days I do have our chickens in a "complete secure pen"... but that has more to do with the fact that the faverolle breed is more muppet than chicken and they would be about as likely to ask the hawk for directions to the coop as they would run away...

but my wife likes them and I prefer not to have a dog just to protect chickens that have no chicken-sense .... and because I like having a bit of wildlife around... so it's a compromise... or so I'm told.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Well now you have the internet so instead of getting those funny looks you’re getting a healthy dose of pure nonsense.
For the record there is a baby possum wandering around here somewhere.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I like their gameness, the fact that they can free range so well, and for their brooding qualities.

Do you have any birds free range now? The gameness isn’t always so “fun” or “cool” though. I am still in the process of setting up some breeding pens. I always single mate but for giggles I tried to put two sisters back together in two separate pens with a cock in there. It wasn’t happening with either pen. Both pairs of hens went at it hard. This was done at night in the dark too.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Do you have any birds free range now? The gameness isn’t always so “fun” or “cool” though. I am still in the process of setting up some breeding pens. I always single mate but for giggles I tried to put two sisters back together in two separate pens with a cock in there. It wasn’t happening with either pen. Both pairs of hens went at it hard. This was done at night in the dark too.

I don’t have a large enough property (less than half an acre) to free range any birds full time. Plus I live a block from the local high school

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Well now you have the internet so instead of getting those funny looks you’re getting a healthy dose of pure nonsense.
For the record there is a baby possum wandering around here somewhere.

Yep I'm full up on nonsense via the webs... but I still get funny looks from old people too.

I caught a momma possum and her litter of hitchers last summer... really thought long and hard about swiping one of those for a pet... but ended up just taking them all to the back 40 and turning them loose....as a rule I remove all types of nest robbers in favor of quail, turkeys, etc.... but those little grinners won me over I guess. If I ever happen onto to a grey fox kit of the right age though.... I'll pet him and call him George.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Yep I'm full up on nonsense via the webs... but I still get funny looks from old people too.

I caught a momma possum and her litter of hitchers last summer... really thought long and hard about swiping one of those for a pet... but ended up just taking them all to the back 40 and turning them loose....as a rule I remove all types of nest robbers in favor of quail, turkeys, etc.... but those little grinners won me over I guess. If I ever happen onto to a grey fox kit of the right age though.... I'll pet him and call him George.

I never kill female possums with babies in their pouch. I will almost always let all young animals go. I have actually had a grey fox pup/kit in my hand before. I was looking for coyotes in May/June once. I was watching a field full of coyotes and driving back down the dirt road this little gray fox pup came strolling out of a swampy area right in front of me. At least I think it was a gray fox pup it may have been a coyote. At that young of an age they are hard to tell apart. I walked that thing through knee high mud back to a brushy area away from the dirt road. I went back the next few nights but never saw him again so I’m guessing he found his mom.

 

[roosterhavoc]

 

[roosterhavoc]

 

[roosterhavoc]

I doubt a Gamefowl laid the blue eggs.

@JShubin where did those blue eggs come from? Do you have game Easter eggers?