Show Off Your Games!

[JShubin]

You likely seen them in Louisiana. They are slightly smaller, fly differently and have a different voice than American Crows.


Yesterday I was having a little trouble with crows going after chicks to penned hens. To stop that, hens had to be released and now I have to deal with hens fighting and harming chicks themselves.

Haha.... solved one problem, created 2 more. I let my mother hens out of the pens too, or else chicks start disappearing with no-one to protect them outside the pen. I still cant believe how caring your rooster is, sitting over the chicks. My roosters dont even acknowledge the presense of chicks.

 

[centrarchid]

Mine as a general rule are very good natured around chicks. The way my great-uncle kept the proven broodcocks and broodhens for producing more hens on fast track to breeder pens, the cocks routinely got involved with rearing chicks. It also occurred on walks where birds were single mated. Key was exposure of cock to only one hen and her brood. Bringing a second hen / pullet into situation makes so cock has to spread his efforts out more thus he delays investment until young are juveniles. With even more hens the cock does nothing other than warn and take on hawks.

 

[sdm111]

What somebody said louisiana

 

[centrarchid]

What somebody said louisiana

I go there to collect some of your sunfishes and crayfishes. Also mess with your bullsharks which give me the jeebies.

We are working up some crayfish right now for an experiment but they are not the same (crawfish to stay Louisiana legal) as what you have.

 

[JShubin]

What somebody said louisiana

Haha I did!

I flew into Monroe, LA and drove down to Columbia. Funeral for mother-in-laws boyfriend, Nels Peterson. Passed away in a construction accident building a freeway.

Its awesome, lush with vegetation and water everywhere. Nearly eaten alive by Mosquitoes tho.

 

[sdm111]

all of the above is correct My woodduck hole walking distance from the housr

 

[centrarchid]

I would be sampling that regularly. We have some areas that used to be similar but they have been converted to soybean, rice, and cotton fields.

 

[sdm111]

It's part of the big branch national wildlife refuge which my property borders

 

[Yahya Morse]

As someone who has never had Australia pit game (we don't have them here in the US) but just basing on the standards. I think he's pretty close, but like you mentioned his comb and wattles are too big in my opinion- this doesn't matter too much if they're dubbed though. Secondly I'd like to see a richer tail and hackle. It calls for "medium" tail and hackle, I'd call him short tailed and would prefer to see a tail and hackle more like this bird which is also a Aussie pit from a friend of mine. The tail/hackle issue could be that your birds just young though- with age he may fill out.

muff! Very nice

 

[JShubin]

all of the above is correct My woodduck hole walking distance from the housr

We call that a lake here in the desert lol.