JohnEugene
Chirping
Please do. I am interested in the genetics too if you have links for that.Training is easy. If interested then later I can provide links.
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Please do. I am interested in the genetics too if you have links for that.Training is easy. If interested then later I can provide links.
I haven't got a clue how to train. I'm brand new. I do have a book though that supposedly I can learn from. Maybe now that I know you guys are here I can get some pointers over time. I'm just doing this as a hobby. My father used to tell me stories though!
Taking pictures of chickens is not easy. They get nervous and run around constantly while you're trying to take the picture. I finally had to bribe them with food to get them to stand still, and even then some of them remained in hiding. But I managed to get some pictures which I edited a little to identify which chickens are which. In image one, I numbered the Brown Leghorn's in yellow, and the Silver Duck wings in red. In the remaining images only the Silver Duck wingsView attachment 1478873 View attachment 1478873 are numbered. Number five is the chick I mentioned in the previous post which has more black in its coloring than do the others. So… I'm thinking that it is probably a rooster. Who knows? Time will tell. This little project has taken me just about the whole day. I hope it was worth it. Now to see if I can upload the images.
Today is lock down day for the shipped American Game Fowl eggs I'm incubating. Everything looks good up to lock down. Now all I have to do is to wait, and I shall see what happens. I'm hoping for a good hatch... but if any (at all) hatch I'll be happy with that. Considering how many attempts I've already made... with no success... at the prices they charge for these eggs with no guarantee, whatever hatches will have cost me a small fortune.
That is a nice bird and worth every penny.Good luck with your hatch! Yes its very easy to spend a fortune on game chickens. They are very expensive. We have payed $500 for a single bird many times. Here is our old Deadend Grey cock, he was $500. He was the prettiest grey bird I have ever seen.
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And here is is grand daughter
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They are a pricey breed, but they're a hobby and we enjoy our birds. We have many different lines of American Games and I recently got some Standard Old English Games this year to breed for show.. BBR and SDW.
Most American Gamefowl breeders dont sell eggs or chicks. Most sell quail size, crowing size, or mature trios, pairs, quads, and single birds. I imagine if you did find hatching eggs they did cost a pretty penny.
That is a nice bird and worth every penny.
Here are some of my favorite grow outs.