Show Off Your Games!

[alibra]

Hello Alibra,
Please never be sorry for asking questions! Unless one asks, one will not be able to learn! Each and every experienced breeder was a novice at one point..

Thank you! You've been very helpful! & I think trying to learn and ask questions is a big part of BackYardChickens!

 

[owisanonfarm]

I agree, intelligent persons ask questions... But it saddens me that this campaign against game chickens as a breed has taken its toll on this strain of birds... The only "game" about them now is the color so all respect and admiration goes to the real breeders of game chicken.. Or what we call gamefowl.. Cheers!

 

[chickletteSarge]

So if I cross my game clock to a different breed that is also game would not be game? Still need to ask Qs. It is wise to remember that some acquire games and not know that that is what they are and would like to begin to breed to keep the line they have pure.... Much like I do. I don't know what line my stag is but I have 2 game hens that I know I could breed him to but he still attracts my layers to him... I know the offspring from them won't be game but the games I do breed him to should be...

 

[Jungleexplorer]

It is important to always remember that all game breeds and almost every chicken breed came from Jungle Fowl, the Red jungle Fowl in particular. So throughout history, people have targeted certain traits they liked to get the birds to look and acted like they wanted them to. So the standard breeds we have in the world today are just the result of someone else's opinion, idea or individual desire that they mixed and matched different birds to achieve. The important thing is not what you do when breeding, but what your purpose is. If you want to breed to the standard (which is just someones else's idea of what the bird should look like), then you need to learn the standard and try to match it. Or, you could try to breed your own breed, just like the people that bred the standard breeds today. Or, if you don't care about trying to match what someone else thinks a chicken should look like and just want to have fun you could just mix and match and see what happens. When you do this, you get a thing called hybrid vigor and you can turn out some really good looking birds. Take for example this Red Sex Link/ BBRed Hatch Gamefowl cross (Below). There is no such thing as a breeding sin, you just need to know what you are trying to do and then figure out how you are going to get there.






Mother and father





Funny thing. Look how much my bird looks like the bird on the cover of this chicken magazine. I was at the checkout at a farm store and saw this magazine and took this picture with my smartphone. I was like, someone is taking pictures of my chickens!

 

[chickletteSarge]

that's awesome Jungle! do you know what breed the one in the cover is?
as for my breeding... I want to achieve what my gramps has so far failed at... "el Gallo Negro!"
I want a completely black faced gamecock with the best game lineage! I like my gamecock I acquired from a battle and his FIL, so he will be my foundation broodcock. My Sumatra hen will be the foundation hen and will add the black face. I want to end up with a colored Sumatra so to speak. the grey I have should add the right amount of color in later generations. this will take up a lot of time on my part! I just hope I can complete it before gramps does! and if he does, I hope mine are far superior!

 

[JShubin]

Breeding any game clocks to game hens would still produce game chicks. I cross different game breeds all the time and the results are much more exciting than pure breeds. The trick is to breed traits that you want to keep like; color (feather or leg), weight/height, speed/strength, agressive/docile etc.

"Pure breeding" is problematic in my opinion, because to keep something pure you need to breed relatives and that sometimes results in genetic abnormalities. Pure breeding is usually predicatable but their may be unlying health issues, similar to pure bred dogs versus mutts. American Games are just hybrids between Oriental Game, Red Jungle Fowl and Old English Game.

You can breed a game chicken to a regular chicken and the result would be either game or not; 50/50 chance... (game refers to the aggressive nature). You can breed that hybrid back to another game and the result would most likely be game, but with some of the other traits of the non-game bird. For example you can get bearded (muffed) game chickens from crossing Ameraucanas with Game, which my friend did.

 

[chickletteSarge]

Sandhill offers muffed games anyone have some or have heard of them?

 

[CUDA]

Breeding any game clocks to game hens would still produce game chicks. I cross different game breeds all the time and the results are much more exciting than pure breeds. The trick is to breed traits that you want to keep like; color (feather or leg), weight/height, speed/strength, agressive/docile etc.

"Pure breeding" is problematic in my opinion, because to keep something pure you need to breed relatives and that sometimes results in genetic abnormalities. Pure breeding is usually predicatable but their may be unlying health issues, similar to pure bred dogs versus mutts. American Games are just hybrids between Oriental Game, Red Jungle Fowl and Old English Game.

You can breed a game chicken to a regular chicken and the result would be either game or not; 50/50 chance... (game refers to the aggressive nature). You can breed that hybrid back to another game and the result would most likely be game, but with some of the other traits of the non-game bird. For example you can get bearded (muffed) game chickens from crossing Ameraucanas with Game, which my friend did.

I'm sorry, but this statement is wrong on so many levels, I don't even know what to say. Also, you will NEVER get gamefowl by breeding into a non-game line...NEVER! You won't get gamefowl from hatcheries either. If some of you on here are truly serious about wanting to raise gamefowl, you need to do some serious research, and soul searching, or just stick with barnyard fowl.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

As I said before. It is about what you want to acheive. There is no right or wrong. Some people devote themselves to following other people's idea of what a bird should look and act like. Other people choose to forge their own path and create the own standard that future generations will in turn devote themselves to following. Whether you choose to be a follower or a forger, the only thing that matters is that you know what you want to be and where you want to go. Many people who are devoted to following will try to say there is a right and wrong and condem others for not following the same idea that they are. But every follower is following an Idea that was created by a forger at some point.

 

[JShubin]

Explain which part you think is wrong..

As far as adding non-game blood, it is possible to get gameness from a non-game hybrid. Its a trait just like any other, it can bred into or out of any bloodline. I have seen it personally. Where do you think muffed games came from? It wasnt creationism, it was bred with non-game blood and bred back with game.