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[greybird123]

young grey stag.. not great photos either I like this guy.

I do too raised 2 stags & 3 pullets out of him. Let a friend use him he tried to buy him after showing him. Nice looking grey stag!!

 

[JShubin]

That's a possibility. There are 6-8 feral hens in the group and a couple have yellow legs. I captured and removed all the roosters but my own who has yellow legs. None of the chickens has any bit of white on them though. He's one odd duck.

Except for counting them when they are in their roosting tree it's impossible to tell how many there are and what they do most of the day. I can't even tell the hens apart really. One or two will disappear and just when I've given them up for dead they reappear with chicks. I'm wondering if inbreeding might be a problem for them. They have been completely on their own for a few years now. I moved here a couple of years ago and started removing roo's last year. Other than that they are truly wild.

I had pure white hen produce black chicks, BBR chicks and also white chicks when paired with a mixed rooster.
Genetics can be tricky when you have mixed breeds, because recessive genes may pop up with the right parent combination.

Thats so cool that you have a feral population... I tried starting a feral pop in a nearby riverbed but I don't think they survived long. Do you not have many predators?

 

[JShubin]

I do too raised 2 stags & 3 pullets out of him. Let a friend use him he tried to buy him after showing him. Nice looking grey stag!!

thank you.

Here is a grey that I "loaned" to someone for breeding.. havent heard back from him in a couple months... haha

I am not to worried because I didnt really want yellow legged greys anyways. My two 2015 grey stags both have dark/green legs, so I will just keep them.

 

[franny254]

I had pure white hen produce black chicks, BBR chicks and also white chicks when paired with a mixed rooster.  
Genetics can be tricky when you have mixed breeds, because recessive genes may pop up with the right parent combination. 

Thats so cool that you have a feral population... I tried starting a feral pop in a nearby riverbed but I don't think they survived long. Do you not have many predators?

Does he have kelso in him? Because kelso also has a white blood line in them he may have some white blood line in him. The hens may be the same.

 

[Sirius452]

I had pure white hen produce black chicks, BBR chicks and also white chicks when paired with a mixed rooster.
Genetics can be tricky when you have mixed breeds, because recessive genes may pop up with the right parent combination.

Thats so cool that you have a feral population... I tried starting a feral pop in a nearby riverbed but I don't think they survived long. Do you not have many predators?

I live in the suburbs so there aren't any real predators besides the occasional stray dog. The feral group got left behind by someone who moved. They live in a tree in my yard and roam about 4 neighboring yards. We all enjoy them so they have stayed. Every year a few disappear, usually when they try to brood on eggs so there must be something that preys on them given the chance. It seems the raccoons and such are happy to eat left out cat and dog food rather than try to get them out of the tree at night. I think it helps that the branches of the tree they chose start at 10 or 12 ft off the ground.

 

[alan anderson]

Some of my birds

Roundhead Cock


Same Miner hen

Hatch stag

I've never seen a green legged Roundhead.I raised Black Roundheads for 20+ years that were green legged,seen yellow legs in Allen and Bruner's.That looks like a Hatch cock.Do you raise very many of the Miner Blues?

 

[JessLonn]

Pic of my larger chickens.

Pics of my Silkies and Babies.

 

[JessLonn]

My brooding Silky hens and roster.

 

[RingedTeal]

I've never seen a green legged Roundhead.I raised Black Roundheads for 20+ years that were green legged,seen yellow legs in Allen and Bruner's.That looks like a Hatch cock.Do you raise very many of the Miner Blues?

No I didn't raise any this year either the cock was to old or he's infertile idrk. But he's supposed to leave here this weekend

 

[jonservidio]

I live in the suburbs so there aren't any real predators besides the occasional stray dog. The feral group got left behind by someone who moved. They live in a tree in my yard and roam about 4 neighboring yards. We all enjoy them so they have stayed. Every year a few disappear, usually when they try to brood on eggs so there must be something that preys on them given the chance. It seems the raccoons and such are happy to eat left out cat and dog food rather than try to get them out of the tree at night. I think it helps that the branches of the tree they chose start at 10 or 12 ft off the ground.

I would guess just a matter of time, they will kill every one that they can,

I'm dealing with them now, they're winning it seems, I will prevail

coons don't need branches they can climb down a tree headfirst