Show Off Your Games!

[Jungleexplorer]

What breeds do you have? Those are nice lookin roosters.

To the best of my knowledge I have Golden Duckwings and Black Breast Reds, otherwise known as American Grey and Hatch (respectively). I actually have only two Golden Duckwing roosters and about 15 BBR roosters. I am selling off most of my BBR's roosters (including the one I posted the picture of) because I want to breed more of the GDs. Actually I would like to trade them for some other breeds I want to get into.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Love the hen jungleexplorer...I have only one with that color pattern. So far she is one of the best pullets, hope she's a good brooder too. I also had mine before I really knew what they are, wouldn't go to a different breed now. Especially after seeing how well they are doing in this snow.

 

[RingedTeal]

I love snow hate cold.Glad to live in Bama though it has been a litttle Chilly like 40's and my whole family was freezing.It may not be cold to most of y'all but everybody around here was in long pants and jackets!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Love the hen jungleexplorer...I have only one with that color pattern. So far she is one of the best pullets, hope she's a good brooder too. I also had mine before I really knew what they are, wouldn't go to a different breed now. Especially after seeing how well they are doing in this snow.

Thanks. I have eight hens that color. They are almost identical and very hard to tell apart. I also have BBR and Buttermilk hens.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

They are beautiful (maybe I'm just partial - I have two very like the first ones you posted, and had one like the second....is that the buttermilk? She was my favorite of all, her only chick with those colors turned into a stag!) I have alot of black with the copper around the neck, no brown., they are also very small pea comb. I would like to post some pics but that function is not cooperating lately. AG are so interesting as to be fascinating to me, they really are a great breed, there's so much going on for them.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

They are beautiful (maybe I'm just partial - I have two very like the first ones you posted, and had one like the second....is that the buttermilk? She was my favorite of all, her only chick with those colors turned into a stag!) I have alot of black with the copper around the neck, no brown., they are also very small pea comb. I would like to post some pics but that function is not cooperating lately. AG are so interesting as to be fascinating to me, they really are a great breed, there's so much going on for them.

The first one is Wheaten. I only have three wheaten hens and one buttermilk hen. I really like the buttermilks the best, but have no idea how to produce them. I hatched out about a 100 chicks this year from all my Game hens trying to get some more buttermilks, and only got the brown, grey and black, colors. Of course, I only had one BBR stag to breed all my hens with so that might be why. I raised the Golden Duckwing rooster and the grey colored hens that I posted the pictures of from eggs I bought off ebay. The GD stag will be ready for next spring and I am building special breeding pens just for him, so I can control what hens he breeds with and see what they produce. I did not have separate pens this year and just put all of my 10 hens in with the one rooster.

I learned so much this year about breeding. One thing I did not know when I started, was that a hen can use the sperm for a single mating for up to six weeks. I ended up with some funky looking chickens because I did not not know I needed to leave my birds in isolation for two months (to be safe) before hatching the eggs. You out see what happens when you try to breed your Barred Cochin Bantams and did not know that one of your hens was bred by a standard White Leghorn rooster!

I also have several of the black Game hens with the brown necks, but I am not sure what they are called. In spite of all of the research I have done, I am not really certain of the exact names for all of the Game breeds and how to identify them.

 

[catdaddyfro]

The first one is Wheaten. I only have three wheaten hens and one buttermilk hen. I really like the buttermilks the best, but have no idea how to produce them. I hatched out about a 100 chicks this year from all my Game hens trying to get some more buttermilks, and only got the brown, grey and black, colors. Of course, I only had one BBR stag to breed all my hens with so that might be why. I raised the Golden Duckwing rooster and the grey colored hens that I posted the pictures of from eggs I bought off ebay. The GD stag will be ready for next spring and I am building special breeding pens just for him, so I can control what hens he breeds with and see what they produce. I did not have separate pens this year and just put all of my 10 hens in with the one rooster.

I learned so much this year about breeding. One thing I did not know when I started, was that a hen can use the sperm for a single mating for up to six weeks. I ended up with some funky looking chickens because I did not not know I needed to leave my birds in isolation for two months (to be safe) before hatching the eggs. You out see what happens when you try to breed your Barred Cochin Bantams and did not know that one of your hens was bred by a standard White Leghorn rooster!

I also have several of the black Game hens with the brown necks, but I am not sure what they are called. In spite of all of the research I have done, I am not really certain of the exact names for all of the Game breeds and how to identify them.

 

[cubalaya]

the last three pics are wild wheaton or partridge. some call them gold wheatons. brown red hens are black with some brown or red leakage in the hackle.

 

[gamelife]

Jungleexplorer,
I believe that your buttermilk hen's father had the influence of her coloration. Grey cocks/stags(silver/golden duckwings) will produce silver and buttermilk
hens, either or both. With respect of course which hen they're mated with. But cocks/stags have a major impact on their daughters coloring as hens do their sons, especially in greys. You could breed her to grey and then maybe breed one of her sons back to her. Instead of searching around for a grey cock that produces buttermilk hens. It does seem as though buttermilk hens are a wheaton version of grey, they are comparable to some degree(just my thoughts).

 

[catdaddyfro]

the last three pics are wild wheaton or partridge. some call them gold wheatons. brown red hens are black with some brown or red leakage in the hackle.