what is this roo?

[Redcatcher]

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Lemon Hatch generally are green legged. You are correct in that the plumage color is wheaton (according to the Standard), but the term for this color in American Gamefowl is red. When the hackles are lemon colored, the red is more specifically called lemon. Both can be referred to as red though.

 

[High Roost Ranch]

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There is a good reason why he's either penned or tethered. It is virtually impossible to keep a free ranging game cock with any other breed, from my personal experience. I tried it once when I first got back into poultry many years ago. Someone brought me a roo, they said they were moving and needed to find a home for him. The first day went well. Of course, I had him in a large run by himself, letting him acclimate to his surroundings. The second day his door was left open while I went into town, and I returned a few hours later to find my favorite roos were dead, and the others were hiding for their lives. Needless to say, I found him a new home on the west coast right after learning my lesson at my birds' expense. My best advice, since I assume you don't want to have to tether or pen continuously any of his male offspring should they hatch, to avoid this happening to you and your current males, is to admire him from afar, from your place, since he's only next door.

He's fighting cock bred. He's not being fought himself because he's not plucked, etc, but it's in his blood, it's what he's been engineered to do. I have no personal experience with game cocks other than what I've researched and learned from others and learned with my one first hand experience, but I won't allow another one here on my property. I'm not slamming the game cockers. Just trying to enlighten anyone who has no knowledge of what the consequences can be if you go into it uneducated.

 

[ReiMiraa]

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There is a good reason why he's either penned or tethered. It is virtually impossible to keep a free ranging game cock with any other breed, from my personal experience. I tried it once when I first got back into poultry many years ago. Someone brought me a roo, they said they were moving and needed to find a home for him. The first day went well. Of course, I had him in a large run by himself, letting him acclimate to his surroundings. The second day his door was left open while I went into town, and I returned a few hours later to find my favorite roos were dead, and the others were hiding for their lives. Needless to say, I found him a new home on the west coast right after learning my lesson at my birds' expense. My best advice, since I assume you don't want to have to tether or pen continuously any of his male offspring should they hatch, to avoid this happening to you and your current males, is to admire him from afar, from your place, since he's only next door.

He's fighting cock bred. He's not being fought himself because he's not plucked, etc, but it's in his blood, it's what he's been engineered to do. I have no personal experience with game cocks other than what I've researched and learned from others and learned with my one first hand experience, but I won't allow another one here on my property. I'm not slamming the game cockers. Just trying to enlighten anyone who has no knowledge of what the consequences can be if you go into it uneducated.

thank you. my roo's are all nice and that is how i like it too.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Please edit your post so that this topic does not get shut down. Just because he is a game breed does not mean that he is used in illegal activity, and from the original post, it sounds as if he does not.

I do not know enough to distinguish whether he is American Game or Old English. The differences in colour between a BBR & a wheaten are pretty difficult to distinguish on males. On females pretty easy. Wheaten does not lighten hackle colour; it does, however, tend to remove black shafting in the hackle and saddle.

 

[Chris09]

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He looks nothing like a Asils (Aseels)

He looks like a American game.


Chris

 

[ReiMiraa]

one of his friends just left the rooster and 4 hens at his property one day. and wouldn't take them back. for the summer their home was just free ranging in the bushes in the yard or in our orchard.

i really want to show you a pic of the hen, there used to be more but i think the others didn't survive the winter.

the hen is dark necked. with a cream/white body. long legs. carries its tail very high. both are very flighty of humans. i was just standing at their pen and they were freaking out. it lays white cream eggs. my camera battery died so i wont have pics of her.

i do not want to cause trouble i just cant identify what breed this pretty boy is. he takes care of his tail feathers better than my roosters.... but maybe he doesn't take any attitude from the hens?

 

[Redcatcher]

This is a Lemon Hatch brood stag

 

[ReiMiraa]

looks the same to me

so is that the name of the breed?

how rare are they?

 

[buffbuttercup]

...and where's his other leg?

 

[Chris09]

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Look like the bird was lifting its leg at the time the picture was being taken and it got fussy. Look at the front of the bird and you will see a fuzzy line, that is his leg...

Chris