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[farmraised86]

Starting to think malay or smamo x malay she's tall but young I'm guessing

 

[troyer]

Starting to think malay or smamo x malay she's tall but young I'm guessing

She does look a bit Malay-ish. I don't think you are too far off in thinking she might be a Malay x Shamo.

 

[farmraised86]

   She does look a bit Malay-ish. I don't think you are too far off in thinking she might be a Malay x Shamo.

I'm letting this guy get her until I get her a mate

 

[troyer]

I'm letting this guy get her until I get her a mate

The offspring should certainly have long legs!

 

[farmraised86]

   The offspring should certainly have long legs!

moderns have malay in they're ancestry too I think the they will produce some pretty cool offspring

 

[centrarchid]

He may not be an Einstein but a cock can learn after three years of trying that fighting through a pen is not worth effort. I have cock that has been used a lot for a lot of different things. He usually has free-range life going on around house but I also do also sorts of experiments on the poor dude. Rule is he does not fight with other birds through fencing although their are times when fighting in pasture is OK but not for long. Fights are kept short because his foe in pasture is not game and dogs get into him fairly quickly when he does fight especially through pens. Also lately he is able to get to pens only when I am out so I police him every time he tries to fight through pen and place him in another pen at house for a 4 hour time-out. He finally figured out not to fight through pen and can control his urge for at least two hours before I call him back. He better than dogs about coming in when called, at least faster. He has no self control when a bird is released from pen as when a broodcock is rotated between pens so he appears to understand the rules of the wire. I still do not need him causing trouble with broodcocks as that makes a 30 second job into a 5 minute one.

He has also gotten into habit of flirting with pullets / hens being conditioned for breeding with broodcocks. He does not waste time with other females that either are not ripe or are in with a cock.

Still took 3 years.

 

[hildar]

The one thing that I have found out since I have gotten Little man is they chatter a lot. Even the chicks do it. It is like they are trying to have a conversation that we can not understand. The kids keep asking me hat they are saying and I am always saying it beats me. I haven't got the slightest idea what they talk about. Little man can see the little game chicks from where he is and he chatters to them all day long, and they look and chatter back. It is just so cute.

He has been interested in the bigger chicks from the first time he saw them, but now with the little games, he is even more interested.

Alberto showed Little man the chicks up close the other day he took him on over and let him watch them close to the fence, I saw Little man picking up pieces of grass and giving it to the chicks, is this a normal game thing???

 

[centrarchid]

Play around with them a bit and you will be able to decipher what they are saying. Some is simply I am here, all is OK. You can also get them to tell each about piles of eats. I can place a bunch of tasty eats in a little cup and hide it so only one finds it at first. Then that bird will call the rest over. Finder can be male or female and even 2-week old chicks do it. They also say when they found water. Cocks seem to give different calls for different types of eats and hens can tell chicks that something tastes nasty.

Real cool stuff starts happening when you have rival groups interacting.

 

[hildar]

Play around with them a bit and you will be able to decipher what they are saying. Some is simply I am here, all is OK. You can also get them to tell each about piles of eats. I can place a bunch of tasty eats in a little cup and hide it so only one finds it at first. Then that bird will call the rest over. Finder can be male or female and even 2-week old chicks do it. They also say when they found water. Cocks seem to give different calls for different types of eats and hens can tell chicks that something tastes nasty.

Real cool stuff starts happening when you have rival groups interacting.

I know most roosters call the hens to food, but some days even if one of my hens walks past little man he will go on and on for about 30 minutes chattering and all kinds of noises. Maybe he just gets lonely and enjoys the company. When the chicks are in the house they chatter away, even when they perch on our shoulder on the couch.

 

[centrarchid]

The rooster advertises his quality by the richness, volume and duration of those calls. His box of chocolates has a lot more than just pretty colors, crowing and cutting his wing.