Show Off Your Games!

[GAFarmGirl87]

He'll be fine in that pen. Just watch him when he get's to be 8 months old and older or when he starts acting cocky.

Ok, will do. Thanks!

 

[jockeyeba]

Question: I've got 4 game mixes, all of which are almost 6 months old, and they have not started laying yet. Any ideas as to when I should expect to get eggs??

My AG's usual start as young as 5 months

 

[jockeyeba]

Yup, sure looks like it.

OK... Shoot!

At what age do game roosters usually mature? If this one is indeed a cockrel, then I'm assuming it hasn't properly developed due to the Alpha rooster in the pen. ?? I'm really not sure what to do about this. I can't separate them right now, as I don't have another pen yet. And I can't let it free range, because I've already lost a few games due to predators.

We learned the hard way, we had 9 AG stags that were from the same hatching & were freerangers, they were 9 months old. One day I went out & 2 of them had nearly killed each other, they both died by the next day

 

[CUDA]

With "game" crosses, you won't have to worry about them being game anymore because they aren't.

 

[troyer]

With "game" crosses, you won't have to worry about them being game anymore because they aren't.

 

[neugene]

met someone here in SA that has AG and other serious birds on my way now to go and have a look he is an older gent and can no longer keep his birds and wants to hand them down to me...super excited will post pics..

 

[lualshannon]

We learned the hard way, we had 9 AG stags that were from the same hatching & were freerangers, they were 9 months old. One day I went out & 2 of them had nearly killed each other, they both died by the next day

How sad that both birds lost their lives! When free-ranging, did they have enough space to run away from each other? Or, would not have mattered?

 

[NYREDS]

How sad that both birds lost their lives! When free-ranging, did they have enough space to run away from each other? Or, would not have mattered?

Games don't run away, not if they're "Game".

 

[Penny Hen]

That is why you see them tethered to little houses. It lets them live out in the open on grass but keeps them at a distance from each other that they will not tear each other up.

I have never kept games but only seen other people keep games. I am guessing that the stags could be tethered in a field and the hens range the field as long as you didn't mind that they bred to their choice of rooster. It might not make for the highest fertility however. It would all depend on the hen's willingness.

Game roosters always make me think of the Celtic warriors that fought Julius Ceasar. They would make oaths that they would kill a certain number of men before they retreated. They would tie a rope to their ankle and a stake and run forward onto the field of battle and drive the stake in the ground. There they would stand until they killed the number of men they pledged or died. Once fulfilling the oath they would "pull up stakes" and retreat. It is from this that the phrase "stake my life on it" came. Only game birds almost never pull up stakes. It is all or nothing for them.

 

[chickletteSarge]

that's why I love this breed! they never back down! never accept defeat! and will fight to the death if left alone to roam free...
not saying I condone pitting! I don't!
its their fighting spirit that I admire... kinda like a soldier in combat!