Show Off Your Games!

I have a deep set love for Games. Not cause I find them to be the most gorgeous of all birds. But cause of my history with these chickens. Unfortuantly my father use to fight large game roosters (doesnt any more). I was raised with chickens cause of this. As a child I made friends with these roosters while feeding and caring for them as a chore to get an allowance and then had to watch them die or kill other birds when he would fight them. Later I started to save these birds from the people who faught them. The last one I saved was a great bird I named Scruffy. When we got him he was horrible looking. He was bloody, torn up and very ill with infections all over. He was faught in a knife fight (gafs) and we thought he might not make it. He was me and my hubby's very first bird together as a couple. We doctored the bird and socialized him with people and it eventually paid off. He was a great bird and we kept him for a very long time. (4 years) Till we had to move and couldnt bring him with us. Here is some before and after photos.

When we got him he looked like this.
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After we cared for him he eventually healed up, feathered out, got fatter, and healthier. And ended up looking like this.
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YOu gave Scruffy a makeover!!! He's gorgeous in the last pic.
I think that when people discuss game fowl - other automatically assume that people are using them for the illegal stuff. I have always been aware of that side of it , but that is not the reason I love games. It's something different - Their nature and their spirit is what I love. Hopefully if people like us , who admire them for their other "lesser known" qualities keep plugging them- More people will know what it is that we love about them. Games are a breed apart from other chickens . It's kind of like the difference between Angus Cows and Longhorns. Both wonderful animals but each with unique traits. I hope that people will keep breeding these wonderful Game birds for show and even for use for eggs and freeranging . To let them die out because of the stigma attached to the breed would be a crying shame. People , I think ,automatically assume that they are just plain "mean" and that is just not true unless you just happen to get a "mean" individual, Which as all of us that know chickens can happen in any breed-- even silkies!! This is just a rehash of my thoughts on games!!


Wayne
 
From my experiance, even with the mean ones, if you put some effort into socializing them. Holding them every day. Feeding them outside of a cage. Then they will calm down. Most the time its people who make them "mean". From my experiances, Ive seen what some do to them to get them in fighting condition. Its right out cruel what they have to go through. Some people even feed them Strict 9 Poison in low dosages to numb the bird's pain sensor nerves so that they dont feel pain when they fight them and they just keep going no matter how bad they are injured. Others put them in cages very close to other birds, just inches out of reach so that they are constantly taunted. They are very territorial birds. And when free ranged usually roosters keep distance from one another after a certain age. But in captivity the way some people keep them they cant, so they get stressed out and agressive. That's what people want that fight them. They only care about their own selfish desires and not the bird's well being and happyness. lol don't even get me started on the subject. I will keep this a friendly, happy thread as it is and keep my dislikes and pet peeves to myself for the well being of everyone's sanity.
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Thanks DT... Remember folks this is a thread about admiring these beautiful birds, lets leave the "other" topics to somewhere besides this thread...

Thanks...
 

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