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If you go out at night, you will see some that are setting down on the perch covering their feet and they have their head tucked when it gets cold. Some of them won't cover their toes. Those will get culled if it is cold where you live. If you have round perches made out of tree limbs instead of...

Oriental game are the calmest by far. Kids can dress them in clothes. You can ride around and run errands with them in your vehicle. Grab a rooster at random and take it to a festival and let screaming schoolchildren charge up to pet it and it will perch calmly.

Won't take long to breed out the birds that aren't smart about covering their toes. Frostbite in January=Gangrene in June is an old adage I have found accurate. Breed that bird to stuff if you want anything out of him.

I do know that if I was entertaining the idea of breeding these birds, I would plan on hen hatching them. The thais that I have bred always did much better under a hen. Something about a very long legged chick, an automatic turner can't do anywhere near as good of a job as a hen, and you will...

You sometimes see eggs on Ebay. Hatching results can vary. Temperature and package handling are always factors of success. Getting a pair shipped in as adults will be a surer bet, and you won't have to deal with learning how to successfully incubate eggs. They already know.

In my experience the jungle fowl offered by hatcheries are some blend of American Game and Bantam. Most of your classic American Games of known lineage are not available as hatching eggs. Understand that these birds come into lay in the spring, they lay maybe a dozen eggs, and then they set on...

There are, or at least were some dong tao, in the US. The guy I knew that had them was a vietnam vet, raised chickens for his own enjoyment, really wasn't interested in sharing them, really didn't import them through the proper channels following all of the import regulations, and finally, is...

They look graded with barnyard fowl, show a lot of comb and wattle to be any more than half oriental game, and their stance is a little suspect. So I would suspect that they would be able to be run with several hens, one adult male, and have the young males taken away as they reach six months to...

Had to look up Indio Gigante to find out what they were. Looks like they are what the feather peddlers are calling Brazillian Shamos these days. Don't know about Liege, they look like my Thai/barnyard crosses. Brazilian Shamo hens don't get along with others they were not raised with or have...

Get some hactchery grade Thai Gamefowl. You will end up with low input meat chickens with out of this world flavor. They will raise themselves semi-feral. With some very basic predator control (larger livestock that served to intimidate things like foxes, enough ground cover to allow chicks to...

Study up on tulip mania, and get a crash course in economics and marketing. The breed to make money on right now, is the breed that you have, that not many other people have, that people will decide they want in the next couple of years. You could keep a few breeders of all the breeds, of course...

There are strains of Ga Noi Don that have been selectively bred to not have spurs. They are traditionally used for fighting, in their home country of Vietnam. It's generally not a lethal competition, it's more of an endurance competition. It can be fatal, but usually the outcome is determined by...

Games. Had a game hen this fall that got carried away by a fox. She whipped him and made him bring her back. I have killed possums, coons and skunks that were cowering in the corner of a pen trying to shield their eyes, after a game chicken made enough noise to wake the dogs in the kennel. Have...

Hawk covers a broad list of species, which have different tactics that they have evolved to use to their own benefit. These could range from the classic swoop from the sky attack, to the set on a perch and drop a few feet to attack, even the land and chase down on foot attack. Depends on...

I did some standard cochin x naked neck and they were some of the fastest growing and biggest heritage breed type chickens I ever raised. And they were extremely snazzy looking.

The only thing he has in common with a game is his color.

Game roosters are more consistently docile than any of the mere barnyard chickens. In terms of aggression towards their human caretakers. They have veen selected for ease of human handling for centuries longer than any other breed.They can also dismember a hawk like a samurai. Most are very...

APA standards would not accept about 90 percent of real asils, and would allow a whole bunch of fake asils. The bird looks like he carries black and jawa coloration.

If that bird were mine, the first thing I would do is worm it. It could have a pale face from scarring, asils are feisty birds, and sometimes they rip chunks of skin off of each others faces. But It's posture makes it look wormy. There is no too old to lay for asils. They start at six months of...

Ok, so we can agree that there are asil that live in semi-feral conditions and that they are quite good at it.