Show Off Your Games!

[centrarchid]

I thought lemon hackle meant the lighter yellow or goldish on the hackle like shubins. My hatch one has that type and the other has the dark burgandy shiny type and I much rather the latter no offense shubin

Several games strains as sold under the so many names come as Wheaton. Even some called Hatch which I always thought had to be BRB with green legs.

Yours look look what I think of as typical Wheaton although I have seen that come almost dreamlike colored.

 

[froggiesheins]

Hello game fowl peeps! I am getting my feet wet and want to show two AGF hens BUT I cannot find the SOP for game fowl. HELP, anybody? I am going to take some pictures in the next few days of the two and post them here.....

 

[Urucubaca]

Hello game fowl peeps! I am getting my feet wet and want to show two AGF hens BUT I cannot find the SOP for game fowl. HELP, anybody? I am going to take some pictures in the next few days of the two and post them here.....

Australian Game Fowl?

 

[sdm111]

http://americangamefowl.org/

 

[JShubin]

Hello game fowl peeps! I am getting my feet wet and want to show two AGF hens BUT I cannot find the SOP for game fowl. HELP, anybody? I am going to take some pictures in the next few days of the two and post them here.....

Hello fellow Californian... I have only seen one other from California and he was from up North.

What does SOP mean?

CAnt wait for the pictures.

 

[froggiesheins]

Well I am finding that it is like looking for a needle in a hay stack, this info..In the APA {AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION) SOP means: Standard of Perfection but I see in AGFs {American Game Fowl} it is just called "STANDARDS".

I will have to send off a message to the American GAme Fowl org. to see if I can get more info.
Here in California things are picking up steam at Poultry show where there are more games being shown. I know generalities of the SOP for other breeds of LF ie: condition of feathers/weight/health but I KNOW ther is more than that... :/


P.S. found an email address within the game fowl society website to ask for a copy of the standards Want my two girls to be ready for the Ventura, CA show April 5th!!

 

[JShubin]

What I look for in cocks/stags is a deeper more consistent red in hackles and saddle. The color is almost burgundy. Wild-type black-breasted red has yellow to brassy cast around lower part of neck. Both Wheaton and wild-type can be impacted by other alleles / loci. Also look at color pattern on individual hackles.

Your recessive Wheaton hen/pulley is darker and more uniformly colored than I expect dominant Wheaton hens to look. Have you bred her to a wild male to see pullet offspring?

I also have dark burgundy hackles in my older rooster Fabio, he is half Leiper hatch which are very dark hackled.

That recessive wheaton pullet is new from last year's breeding and just started laying. I will definitely breed her this season, although I am not sure who I am going to pair her with. She is very large size and has some pretty blue legs... I probably wont breed her to the "wild type" because I'd like to keep the wild type a little smaller.

After hearing Childressj's rant about "wild type" games, I think I am actually going to create a seperate breeding program for just that purpose... Maybe call them American Jungle Fowl... lol

 

[JShubin]

Well I am finding that it is like looking for a needle in a hay stack, this info..In the APA {AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION) SOP means: Standard of Perfection but I see in AGFs {American Game Fowl} it is just called "STANDARDS".

I will have to send off a message to the American GAme Fowl org. to see if I can get more info.
Here in California things are picking up steam at Poultry show where there are more games being shown. I know generalities of the SOP for other breeds of LF ie: condition of feathers/weight/health but I KNOW ther is more than that...

P.S. found an email address within the game fowl society website to ask for a copy of the standards

Want my two girls to be ready for the Ventura, CA show April 5th!!

Do you have to have a rooster to show at these shows? Or can you just bring two hens? I have never been to a show... I'd be interested in going to that one in April...

 

[JShubin]

Possibly picking up some of these soon. Hard to decide between them and Lemon Cuckoo Pekins.

As both are relatively unusual and uncommon, they'll go well with my collection.

Is that a Modern Game Bantam? I say go with games and not Pekins... that should of been an easy decision. lol

 

[centrarchid]

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