Why were these chickens housed this way?

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I suppose if this is the reason they were tied out then it makes sense. If they were being raised for food then you would have had to do something like this with the number that I saw tied out. And I really couldn't tell what kind they were as we were passing by. And even though Ellijay is in the mountains and the sticks, these chickens were off 2 different main roads (hwys 52 and 53) and from seeing distance from the road. I would think that someone raising them to fight would have had them not as visable.

 

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Yes, one of the places was.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

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Game birds are housed this way. They usually have the bungie cord attached so they can not kill one another.

HOLY CRUD rooster-red, When did you get the fancy name.

Acclaimed Possum Breeder is quite the upgrade !!

 

[Feathered Wings]

Game Birds are highly sought after and go for a great deal of money.
The ones you saw could be for selling or breeding. Some of the genetic lines of these birds are very famous. I met a man who bred and raised these in individual pens and he sold them for $1,000.oo a piece.

 

[Smoky73]

I saw several places like that when I was in Hawaii last fall.

 

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I think I may have to get into this kind of business! $1000/bird? There is so much I'm learning about chickens!

 

[chookchick]

The places in Hawaii that have a setup like that are raising birds to fight--it is a Filipino tradition. A lot of them get loose and in the rural areas they raise quite a rucus in the morning, all of those bachelors looking for a hen! I would be suprised if birds with a lot of value where raised out in the open like that.

 

[Vcomb]

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while good broodstock is still expensive, now a days u wont find many birds bringing that kind of money here in the states. and a lot of people who (back before the laws changed) got into it to make money selling stock soon found themselves to be outed - basically the same thing as a guy selling a racehorse for millions that was from 3 generations of horses who have never even seen a race track. now with the change a lot of people who were only fighting are getting out and therefore the market is flooded. birds that would've brought hundreds are bringing 100 at best.


anyways, to address rebelscowboysnb's comment. i can't speak for the game birds u have, but i can speak for the ones i have and the first ones i got into. sooner or later the roosters turn on one another when kept together, and believe me u don't want to come home to that sort of bloody mess. depending on the bloodline this may be at 2 months old, it may be at 14 months old. once the young roosters become a certain age they "turn" on one another. a good keeper will keep an eye out and seperate the young roos at that age. once they get older they come out of their smaller portable pens and are put on tiecords as it gives them more room to excersize. the tiecords give much greater range of motion for the bird and offer an economical way to raise a good number of them. some even keep their hens on cords as their hens will try to kill one another. this isn't as common in most bloodlines but will happen from time to time.

 

[psrumors]

very pretty rooster.

 

[LocoPollo]

Living in Ellijay, I have heard that they are gamecocks bred for scary business, but can't be sure. There are several farms around here with similar setups.