Show Off Your Games!

[centrarchid]

I've got some cackle hatchery games, about a week ago, three different pullets laid their first eggs. I've got them penned separate. The odd thing was that they laid two eggs the same day. Two did it one day, and another did it the next. Haven't laid an egg since, but it's been cold.

When it is cold mine do not lay consistently unless nutrition very good, especially when I provide a restricted ration. Free-ranging hens being staged for use as broodies are laying better and starting to set which preferred so I can swap out their eggs with those from breeding pens with short lay to incubation start interval.

 

[alroy82]

better pic of my new gamecock bennet grey cross with clarret[/quote]

 

[JShubin]

New Modern Game... Named "Eight".. He shows a lot of behavioral traits similar to American Games. I will never know if he is game, but he shows no signs of fear towards any of my roosters, in fact he was very aggressive. He very good with people, but a little skidish around my dogs.

 

[JShubin]

Let me know if this offends anyone, and I'll remove it. I am only using as a scale to show the size comparison.. I always though the modern games would be towering over my AGF, but they are pretty close to the same height. The lankyness of the Modern Game gives the illusion that they are a lot taller.


No animals were harmed in the making of this photo.lol

 

[Busterchicken]

 

[mixedflockmomma]

My new mutts. Including 2 game mix. Can't wait till they grow up. Hoping they show more of the the game genes.

 

[RingedTeal]

I was getting eggs then it snowed and now I have some hens laying but only about 10or so eggs.

 

[JShubin]

anybody besides saladin?

im not breeding for gameness just for fun. i got a free american gamefowl rooster and im crossing it with my brassyback oegb hen. no purpose just to see what kind of mutt i get.

here is my free rooster

I went to the barn where my Hatch AGF hens bred with Brown Red game bantam..... I took a picture of the one rooster they kept from that mating.

He is medium in size but looks very good. Ugly comb but other than that he is a good specimen.

 

[childressj]

 

[JShubin]

Get a stout pair of scissors and relieve him of his comb and waddles. He will at least look game even if he will pull up and run if he ever meets a real gamecock. Among cockers, It is considered the cardinal sin to introduce non game blood into a gamecock (see previous sentence for reason), but I doubt there is much chance these guys are going to find their way into a serious cocker's brood pen.

He is a barnyard chicken and wont be near any real gamecocks. He is not mine, so I cant dub him, but he would look cool .

I have never bred non-game blood to my games, but I imagine it has been done in the past many times. I assume this is where we get the color varieties of games we see today.

Hypothetically, if I could breed a family of Leghorns that can out perform any American Game, would you be interested in breeding that bloodline? Someone created gamefowl a long time ago, so it could be reproduced again today if we wanted to, but its a "cardinal sin" so we dont even bother to try.