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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    I don’t have many of my old videos saved. I would often delete them after uploading. I only have my most recent videos. I’m open to possibly starting a new channel that only focuses on knowledge relating to my chickens and other rustic livestock. But I’m conflicted about the idea, so at least...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    Yesterday I moved their feeder to underneath an oak tree in the middle of the enclosure. The rooster and 1 hen roosted in the oak tree last night. The other three hens roosted in the holly tree outside the enclosure. Tonight it appears all 5 birds roosted in the oak tree. I didn’t go inside the...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    Its called “Free-Range Survival Chickens.” I wrote it under my screen name “Florida Bullfrog,” which was also my Youtube handle for many years. I recently shut my Youtube channel down for reasons I discuss here: Post in thread 'Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    I think the habitat preferences have a lot to do with them learning where water, food, and safety are located. My farmyard has a lot of open grass that ecologically is functioning as meadow, but its also interspersed with fence line, hedge rows, and tree rows. The chickens are never further than...
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    Any Gamers Here?

    I only remember the first Gex on the original PS1. Along with Twisted Metal, Loaded, and a few others I got for Christmas with the PS1.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Putting the red Cracker over the black landrace project hens is beginning to make several more wild-colored birds.
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    So how I got the chickens choosing to fly back behind the electric net after roosting free: Easy. Commercial feed is the great manipulator. There's enough natural food behind the net to sustain the birds without feed, but they love the feed. It's like chicken crack. The first 2 nights they flew...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    There's actually two different categories of questions there. The first relates specifically to this 68" inch net setup. The second concerning general free-ranging. These birds behind the net aren't "free-range" in my mind. The enclosure is 1/4 of an acre. Yes, they can currently come and go at...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    I recently observed some new behavior that may be of interest to this discussion. I have many lines of chickens. My “wildest” line are red jungle fowl x American gamefowl hybrids. Short of giving them a covered run, they cannot be contained. They’ll fly over any fence or barrier. I have need...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    I do believe many animals kill for fun. Dogs definitely do. Killer whales are well documented doing so. Otters do (I’ve seen otters wipe out fish populations for what appeared to be the fun of it). Cats both wild and domestic. Generally its smarter mammals doing so. Its not something even a very...
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    can chickens love people?

    Its something we probably can’t know the answer to. Anything is possible. I take the view that people generally anthropomorphize chickens too much. And yet… I have seen chickens that in my opinion, get attached to certain people or otherwise seek out human contact for reasons other than...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    I agree with you, but would also add the qualifier that there are woodland hawks that specialize in killing birds, and those hawks hunt better in thick tree cover than in the open. The sharp-shinned hawk, the Cooper’s hawk, and the northern goshawk. They’re all basically the same bird that...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    That’s arbitrary with no practical distinction in results. Let me illustrate. A flea species that has never been to North America rides the back of a wild wolf from Siberia to British Columbia across the Bering landbridge. The flea is now introduced into America. The same flea rides a...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    I agree with this on both levels. First, I would suspect widespread pesticide use and otherwise contaminating the environment with chemicals as a primary killer of native insects moreso than suspecting introduced flowers. Second, the issue of “invasive” vs “native” is complicated. What is...
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    Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

    Well, I wrote the book on raising chickens in the woods. Too much to boil down to a paragraph or two. There’s threads all over the forum from myself and others about their 24-7 free range birds in predator-rich environments. But basically boils down to genetics, survival of the fittest, and...
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