Show Off Your Games!

[sdm111]

Welcome to the thread post some pics

 

[triple m maze]

Two different strains of Copperhead Fowl named Copperheads. One strain originated by W. l. Matlock of Tenn , they contain the bloods of the Arkansas traveler and Bushwacker, Phil loving blue, and an imported Irish blue strain , they come all shades of blue and some gray , cocks run in weight of 4.08-6.00, the copperheads have never met with popular fancy , and there breeding has been confined almost entirly to their home district..

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Coy Smothers Copperhead Blues

By: Triple M Maze Copperheads.
This is the only Coy Smother / Dee Cox that has been maintained this tight that I know of. The other Copperheads are bred different. Here is what was found. Taken from: Gamefowl Dictionary of Strains
Coy Smothers of AL made these. Dee Cox Showed them in the 80's. I still own them from friendship of Bob Morrow and Donnie and Ronnie Marsh. You can get many colors but the Blue Grays seem to be the best outcome When entered GBA Poultry Shows. I CAN CONTROL THE COLOR BY THE HEN SELECTED. All are still here on my farm in AL for a reason. I have held them the same for 30 years or better with a blend of Red Richardson Blue Face Hatch which also came from Donnie and Ronnie Marsh.

. The reason these were named Copperheads was due to Coy Smothers finding a Copperhead snake in the nest when they first were hatched out. Originals were a 4 way cross. Minor Blue, Round Head, Gray, Mcclanahan. Was bred back to the blue side to create Copperheads now in my hands 31 years. Nothing is pure but I say they are as close as they get on this breed.

 

[triple m maze]

Glad to see games are accepted.

 

[sdm111]

They are but this thread is monitored by lurkers that will surely report you to administrators if they feel you said anything they find inappropriate, believe me

 

[triple m maze]

I sure won't do that. I have nothing to hide. I'm a breeder and have a good time with just Poultry Shows. Let anyone lerk me that wants. Straight up guy. I have a lot to offer if treated good. Just saying. Us as gamefowl owners know as much about chickens and good health, care and breeding as anyone.

 

[sdm111]

Current pic 2014 Lloyd miner stag

 

[maranfarmer563]

Had a game hen hatch out 9 chicks,came home from work found her she only had 6. As I neared she stood up,the chicks scattered a male Peking duck grabbed one and gobbled it down. I had no idea ducks ate chickens.

 

[sdm111]

Prolly more involuntary reaction than anything.

 

[centrarchid]

I have had Ancona drakes go after chicks. Some hens can stop them, some can not. Cocks stop them very well. Bigger more consistent problem is how ducks mess up my biosecurity. They will dabble in every waterer cross contaminating between pens hundreds of feet apart. To protect the quarantine area I have to use fencing and distance to keep the ducks out.

 

[maranfarmer563]

My ducks are going. They are fenced off,but chickens are free to go everywhere. That was the last straw .