Show Off Your Games!

[JShubin]

@JShubin do you have current pictures of them?

no I do not.
Just experiments... Sold the RIR cross and lost the Modern cross

 

[roosterhavoc]

Maybe to cross in a certain color or feature.

The color of the bird doesn’t make a difference. Sure some are pretty but that really doesn’t matter. What type of feature would someone be looking for they couldn’t get from some other gamefowl?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

The color of the bird doesn’t make a difference. Sure some are pretty but that really doesn’t matter. What type of feature would someone be looking for they couldn’t get from some other gamefowl?

I honestly don’t know what feature someone would want in a Gamefowl that isn’t already there.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Ever crossed one of your Gamefowl cocks with your laying hens?

I've done it the other way around....

NO! Why would I!? Many people before me have already put in a ton of work breeding them to get them where they are now. Doing that would be going backwards!

The results would only be considered going backward if you knew which direction you wanted to go! lol... for us they were just good broodies and conversation pieces I guess.... or maybe we were just too backward to recognize backward when we saw it coming at us... lol

I mentioned earlier on this thread that when I was a kid, a friend of my dad's who was very big into gamefowl, used to give us some of his cull hens that would cross with our roosters... I'd probably asked him for some hens originally, because I used to like to mix breeds to see what popped out...but I don't recall.

The crosses made decent barnyard hens I guess... they were on the small side and thrifty .... they used to disappear and the reappear with whole piles of chicks from time to time... our roosters varied by breed depending on the year, but the gamefowl hens were wheaten colored, and the chicks were often a mixed bag...2nd generation of course tended back toward layers than the gamefowl since our rooster breeds were layer type... I was never that fond of them in general... but I had pretty much no clue about gamefowl at that point... probably less so now...

 

[roosterhavoc]

I've done it the other way around....



The results would only be considered going backward if you knew which direction you wanted to go! lol... for us they were just good broodies and conversation pieces I guess.... or maybe we were just too backward to recognize backward when we saw it coming at us... lol

I mentioned earlier on this thread that when I was a kid, a friend of my dad's who was very big into gamefowl, used to give us some of his cull hens that would cross with our roosters... I'd probably asked him for some hens originally, because I used to like to mix breeds to see what popped out...but I don't recall.

The crosses made decent barnyard hens I guess... they were on the small side and thrifty .... they used to disappear and the reappear with whole piles of chicks from time to time... our roosters varied by breed depending on the year, but the gamefowl hens were wheaten colored, and the chicks were often a mixed bag...2nd generation of course tended back toward layers than the gamefowl since our rooster breeds were layer type... I was never that fond of them in general... but I had pretty much no clue about gamefowl at that point... probably less so now...

It’s only backwards if your expecting them to still be game with fresh layer blood added. Otherwise why have gamefowl?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Gameness is a trait just like “tufts” or “fancy feathered feet” or “an extra toe”.

 

[1cock2hens]

I gave away some salmone faverolles x miniature american game chicks last year. I wish i knew what those turned out to look like. all had the extra toe and beard

 

[roosterhavoc]

@Brahma Chicken5000 why are you interested in gamefowl? Are you interested in the gameness or something else?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

It’s only backwards if your expecting them to still be game with fresh layer blood added. Otherwise why have gamefowl?

because I was a goofy country boy, who didn't know nothing... thought we covered that.

As for if they were game or not... I'm sure they weren't truly, and in that sense there is no doubt it was working backwards... but the cockerels did tend to thin themselves out... we'd round up and butcher cockerels back then, but in those crosses there weren't too many to round up by they time we got around to it... definitely different than non game breeds, where the cockerels would sort it out but they wouldn't go at it too hard.

 

[roosterhavoc]

because I was a goofy country boy, who didn't know nothing... thought we covered that.

As for if they were game or not... I'm sure they weren't truly, and in that sense there is no doubt it was working backwards... but the cockerels did tend to thin themselves out... we'd round up and butcher cockerels back then, but in those crosses there weren't too many to round up by they time we got around to it... definitely different than non game breeds, where the cockerels would sort it out but they wouldn't go at it too hard.

That’s my whole point. Letting them run loose and butchering is one thing but nowadays everyone has their birds in complete, secure pens because god forbid a hawk gives them a dirty look. Those same birds that thinned themselves out would more than likely be kept in the ever trendy “bachelor pens” ripping each other to shreds while their owners searched online for help.