Show Off Your Games!

[Yahya Morse]

My old grey Junior. 1/2 Toppy 1/4 Asil 1/4 Spanish

 

[Yahya Morse]

He's about 4

 

[Yahya Morse]

Bump catching a breeze

 

[Yahya Morse]

Bump's brother Big Red

 

[Yahya Morse]

Rajah is the grandfather of the flock. He's Gengiz's dad

 

[childressj]

I am looking for blue legged, straight comb, lemon hackle game fowl. Do you know anyone who has them?

 

[sdm111]

 

[neugene]

Was given some new birds to breed with for next season from my very good friend and mentor i believe that finally i have got to the level where i am trusted to look after Gamefowl of the highest level...

 

[neugene]

I noticed that as well... they should be a slate or green color, right? Their legs look almost pink/purple... maybe just the lighting.

Where did you get them? Hatchery? local breeder?

Hi thanx for the info we dont have the best Junglefowl here in South Africa but i have been trying to get birds close as possible to wat they should be and will try improve on wat is available..its my only option..

 

[childressj]

I figured I was having trouble finding lemon hackle, blue legged, straight combed games because I no longer have a large circle of friends who are cockers. I have also observed that blue legs are evidently the least popular among cockers BUT I had no idea the combination is so rare that NO ONE on this thread knows anyone who has any such birds. When you consider how hard people work to promote mutations in chickens, one might wonder how hard it would be to find living individuals who show NO mutations. I propose that game chickens are the closest living relative to the wild ancestor and games with the "wild type" appearance characteristics would be the closest thing to the original domesticated chicken. (Games are the only chicken breed that has been bred primarily to promote fitness and not mutations.) I discovered I could not find these individuals in my area. Do you know anyone who has bright yellow (gold to geneticists) hackle, straight comb, blue leg duckwings that come from the dark bodied (wild type) hens-NOT from the light brown wheaten hens?

Can game chickens without obvious appearance mutations be this rare? We all know where we can find one or more of these characteristics, so the genes are there but who has individuals with all of these obvious "wild type" characteristics? If we do not act soon the American Game gene pool is going to be cluttered with coarse looking Asian features that do not resemble the wild ancestor. Anyone interested in helping me find these individuals? I would also welcome anyone else who is interested working on keeping a few families that breed true. There are quite enough people breeding to promote mutations! Help find and save the original domesticated chicken!



Although I will never consider mixing the wild ancestor and game fowl, here is a photo of a RJF cock and a hen of (possibly mixed) domesticated linage to show the "wild type" characteristics.