Show Off Your Games!

[coltsdad]

I got my first birds from an old cocker , they were the old gooduns , he had connections all over the U.S. , Guam , phillipines everywhere but he past away and his sons didn't take care of them so there all gone now . They were mostly , madigan claret , mclain hatch , warhorse , joe goode greys , laws greys , kelso,white hackle and a lot of home brews .He would let me raise em and would buy stags from me out of his birds , and after a while just let me make my own crosses . He was an odd man but very succesful at what he did .

 

[chickenlover54]

I guess I will be joining this thread now!
I have Pumpkin Hulsey chicks from Green Fire Farms

And this pair of Hatch American Game Bantams I will be getting on Friday
http://www.eggbid.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=1265413948

 

[cwc362]

Hope you add more pics when you get the Agb's and also the Pumpkins as they get older- I went to Greenfirefarms and looked at the pics and videos of them and they are awesome!!




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[Barred Rocks forever]

so happy to see some pumkin hulsey chicks on this thread i hope more people post pumkin hulsey chicks i love thm and hope to get some soon

 

[Ra_]

This hen, who is from my birds Liz & Simon, started laying 2 weeks ago.
Now she's developing some kind of mane?
I looked up 'tasseled' birds but a tassel is usually right behind the comb.

 

[donnie]

hey guys nice birds by the way , would love to have any of them on my yard ....... im looking for red or gray pyle eggs to hatch so i can add them to my barnyard flock since games do best free range better than barnyard chickens , i like the colorations of the pyles , if you can help me find some i would appreciate it , just pm me if you dont mind thanks guys

 

[chickenlover54]

Hi, I am new to the real gamebirds so will someone tell me what the these words mean?
Stag?
Brood cock?
brood hen?
and what the difference between brood cock, cock and stag are.
Thanks!

 

[DTchickens]

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Stag- a cockerel.
Brood cock - a cock used for breeding "hence the Brood" part.
Brood hen - basically the same ;D.

Brood stag, brood cock, cock, stag, pretty much all the same. Just the ones i plan to breed would be a "Brood stag" or "Brood cock" depending on if they're mature or "immature".

-Daniel.

 

[chickenlover54]

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Stag- a cockerel.
Brood cock - a cock used for breeding "hence the Brood" part.
Brood hen - basically the same ;D.

Brood stag, brood cock, cock, stag, pretty much all the same. Just the ones i plan to breed would be a "Brood stag" or "Brood cock" depending on if they're mature or "immature".

-Daniel.

LOL thank you for clearing that up! to me a stag sounds like an older rooster LOL

 

[MAllen]

Here's how I grade them.

Adult Brood Pairs - Adult birds that meet the standard and when paired will produce sound stock. A high percentage of offspring from this pair will meet the standard, the breeder can expect a percentage will be of show quality.

Young Brood Pairs - Young birds that meet the standard and that, in the breeder's experience, will make a good pair but they are unproven. They are newly paired.

Select Brood Cocks - This is a cock that meets the standard, is show quality, and either has or should produce offspring that stand a good chance of being the same.

Select Brood Hens - This is a hen that meets the standard, is show quality, and either has or should produce offspring that stand a good chance of being the same

Stags & Pullets - Birds that have not made it to breeding age, unproven, no way to tell what they might produce when paired. Take a chance & hope for a good result.

The thing you really have to watch out for when buying gamefowl are breeders who are selling off their culls. When buying young stags & pullets you are buying birds that have gone through the "chick" culling stage, but have not been culled as unshowable or non-brood stock because they have not reached the age for those stages of culling, so you really are taking a chance with them. You might end up with a cull, then again you might get a show winner that makes a great breeder.

Culls that I don't kill I give away to 4H kids, I won't sell them.