Show Off Your Games!

[RingedTeal]

@JShubin do you have any pure Spanish Games left ?

 

[RingedTeal]

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.

@Centra isn't this what kind of hen coloring you were looking for ? I thought I'd seen it somewhere.

 

[Silkie Sue]

the hens that have been raised by other breeds are fine with them but i have found that the Shamo hens that have not grown up around the other types do duke it out and i do not let them out unsupervised

 

[centrarchid]

@Centra isn't this what kind of hen  coloring you were looking for ? I thought I'd seen it somewhere.

It is close color-wise but it has very strong wild red jungle fowl influence. Rooster looks very close to a proper red jungle fowl. My interest will stay with what is available in American Games.

 

[JShubin]

@JShubin do you have any pure Spanish Games left ?

No pure spanish games... The spanish I had were 3 pure white hens who are no longer alive. The closest I have now is a half spnaish.

Here is a photo of my most spanish trio. I took this yesterday evening, cock is molting. Light hen is half spnaish, the cock and grey hen are both 1/4 spanish.

 

[JShubin]

Beautiful little pullet - mixed breed

 

[sdm111]

First round of dubbing starts in the morning, can't wait

 

[JShubin]

First round of dubbing starts in the morning, can't wait

What do you do with the removed combs, wattles ? Feed em to the dogs?

 

[sdm111]

Throw them in the woods behind me. I remember I dubbed a couple of my neighbors birds and a son asked the same thing I told him we were gonna batter them and fry them and he was all for it

 

[RingedTeal]

No pure spanish games... The spanish I had were 3 pure white hens who are no longer alive. The closest I have now is a half spnaish.

Here is a photo of my most spanish trio. I took this yesterday evening, cock is molting. Light hen is half spnaish, the cock and grey hen are both 1/4 spanish.

No pure spanish games... The spanish I had were 3 pure white hens who are no longer alive. The closest I have now is a half spnaish.

Here is a photo of my most spanish trio. I took this yesterday evening, cock is molting. Light hen is half spnaish, the cock and grey hen are both 1/4 spanish.

It is close color-wise but it has very strong wild red jungle fowl influence. Rooster looks very close to a proper red jungle fowl. My interest will stay with what is available in American Games.

I saw this back on page 627 or so and wondered if she was close to the color as it was a better picture than I posted.

No pure spanish games... The spanish I had were 3 pure white hens who are no longer alive. The closest I have now is a half spnaish.

Here is a photo of my most spanish trio. I took this yesterday evening, cock is molting. Light hen is half spnaish, the cock and grey hen are both 1/4 spanish.

I couldn't remember if you had any or not, but I knew you had some Spanish crosses.

the hens that have been raised by other breeds are fine with them but i have found that the Shamo hens that have not grown up around the other types do duke it out and i do not let them out unsupervised

Ok thanks for clearing that up.