The Moonshiner's Chick Chat

[sdm111]

A couple not good pics. Same rooster but when he was at his home before he was gifted to me

 

[sdm111]

There is a non gamefowl version with the same color but I don't know what it's called

 

[JacinLarkwell]

There is a non gamefowl version with the same color but I don't know what it's called

My brown leghorn, naked neck and Ayam ketwa males look real similar colorwise

 

[Bonkerelli]

About d@mn time huh?
Had a batch go into lockdown last night.

You're telling me! I did stick another batch in the incubator but we will see what happens. Think my thermostat in the incubator is not accurate.

 

[Amer]

There is a non gamefowl version with the same color but I don't know what it's called

https://livestockconservancy.org/heritage-breeds/heritage-breeds-list/buttercup-chicken/
Eh? Or not quite?

 

[sdm111]

https://livestockconservancy.org/heritage-breeds/heritage-breeds-list/buttercup-chicken/
Eh? Or not quite?

Really close, thanks. Especially the hen

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

I put my quail eggs into lockdown a day early since I won't be home tomorrow. Only 7/23 made it to lockdown! A ton were infertile, and the rest were early quitters. One of them was rotten too

 

[sdm111]

The odd one

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The odd one

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Definitely looks like a buttercup chick. Is It from those two parents?

 

[sdm111]

Definitely looks like a buttercup chick. Is It from those two parents?

It is.
Back in the day people infused then outcrossed different gamefowl in hopes of having the edge in the pit. There's basically 2 types of gamefowl fast/ high breaking (breaking is how high they fly in the air during a fight and come down on top of their opponents. Roundheads for example are high breakers they can fly 6 feet or more in the air) fowl like roundhead, Albany, some family of Grey's, redquill, etc. But they don't hit very hard. Then theirs hard hitters like hatch, kelso, other Grey's, etc but they're not usually very fast. So breeders would cross one of each to try to get the perfect mix of both. I believe somewhere down the line redquill was infused in at least one of the parents of that chick in the event to try to speed up the hard hitting kelso to get that perfect mix then the offspring bred back to the kelso line so that the pit cocks would look like a kelso but have the speed of the redquill so it looked like every other kelso to have that edge. That's why every now and then one comes out looking like the redquill. The mind is there but the looks are deceiving. And whatever the keyboard geneticists say the cross will always be that the hen brings the mind while the cock brings the physical structure. Which means that, that breeding way back when was a cross of a kelso over redquill. Meaning a kelso cock was bred to a redquill hen.