Show Off Your Games!

[Gresh]

Has anyone had any experience with Xooj Aviaries? I found their website on the internet. They live here in NC in the more mountainous western part of our state, and they breed some very beautiful looking Thai Games. They say that their bloodlines are 100% pure directly from Thailand (they once lived in Thailand and I think they also lived in Laos). Just curious...

 

[josh44]

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Thanks can't wait until his sons really fill out their only needing another 5-8 months more obviously their still young and scragally compared to their daddy

 

[pride&joy]

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Looks like you are doing a great job Sharon, looks like his feathers have caught up with his body for now. I would not worry about him and your yard roosters for another couple of months his line seem to turn on about 9-10 months but once they do there is no backing down so be cautious of that loose game or game mix. Some of the worst injuries are from pen fight or fighting through a fence both will end up in bad shape.
If it was me I would let them fill in some and around the beginning of the year build a separate 8x4 pen for one of the pullets or even a shamo pullet and an araucana one and let him split his time between them (ideally one day with each pen and one day on a cord on green grass). Being the araucanas lay blue eggs it won’t be hard to figure out who’s eggs are who’s. The shamo hens will go broody and take their sweet time raising some nice shamo and some very interesting easter eggers? Ha but that is just me as you saw I am not that good with the chicken math or dog math come to think of it the goat math is affected to LOL.

 

[welasharon]

If I don't intend to hatch any out any time soon would I still need to plan on separating them? Will he try to mount the araucanas?????? Would he hurt them? Maybe I need to pull them out for sure! THeir pen is in a 30x40 fenced in area but the fence is only 3' tall. I intend to raise that up...how high do I need to go? I would like to be able to let them loose in that area during the day, rather like your back yard only on a smaller scale. I have considered closing the top like an aviary. At night they would go back in the hardward cloth pen.

So far the game rooster only goes to the front yard but I imagine it will only be a matter of time before he hears that shamo crowing.
sharon

 

[welasharon]

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Thanks can't wait until his sons really fill out their only needing another 5-8 months more obviously their still young and scragally compared to their daddy

This is an asil?

 

[upthecreek]

I love him ..... beautiful !!!



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He's my first. New breed to me but I am enjoying them immensely. Very different from "regular" chickens.

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[Grandaddy]

What is the benifit of adding Asil blood to your gamefowl?

 

[GotGame]

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It would just depend on what your goal is. I rarely see an advantage to cross breeding unless you are producing performance birds.

 

[Grandaddy]

Knew a lot of people crossed them, but didn't know why. Is it for strengh, cutting ability, or what

 

[Illia]

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Yes.

And boy is it interesting to see the outcome. When I free-ranged my Shamos I had an Araucana hen running around loose, and one day she decided to brood some eggs of her own, I ended up with several Araucana x Shamos, one of them was tufted. None were rumpless though. Sadly a cat ate the tufted one, but two clean-faced pullets got sold to a neighbor. Sadly the neighbor was irresponsible and lost most of what I sold her.