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Same two birds in post #85. Batch of 8 bitties the hen took to the ground today.

Marek’s ripped through my flock last year and decimated many of my project birds. The micros were highly inbred and they all tanked but one hen. I have the one hen in with a small pure Cracker. I am hoping they’re both resistant to the Marek’s and I can start a new flock of the micros.

I’m in the process of downsizing my projects. But I am going to keep this project going. The micro offspring are doing well. Very healthy and vibrant. They have a strong RJF look. This stag will have his first adult molt this summer. I am excited to see what his adult plumage looks like. I am...

Both micro hens have chicks now. I’ll now refer to them as black band and red band to tell them apart. Black band is at least 2 years old and is an excellent mother. She is still roosting on the ground with them, which I consider a positive trait. Hens that rush coop or tree roosting when the...

Update for these birds at the end of the video: Terrorfowl Super Free Range Survival Chickens Spring 2023 Update!

I ended up with 8 chicks. They are vibrant and vigorous acting. I think it helps that fresh blood is coming in from the rooster side. Up to this point they have all been heavily line bred from the AGB line, which started as half-Cracker and half-OEGB and then line bred down to F3 and F4. This...

We have teacup chicks. Looks like most or all 10 hatched, but I didn’t keep her lifted for long. I’ll take a better look tomorrow.

Funny you should say that, because I have an update. The 14 oz hen has been setting for a few days. Of 16 eggs, 7 were definitely developing and 2 were questionable but I left them. I’ll let her hatch the brood and see what happens. @miss heny These little teacup Crackers ought to be gamey...

I have not weighed the cockerels because they are young and still growing. The hens are mature, 1.5-2.5 years old between the three of them. The blue hen in the first pic on the far right with the black zip tie leg band is 14oz. The hen in the middle with the red band is around 16-18oz (I’ll get...

He probably is, but I’d rather wait several months both for convenience and on the chance that the older he is the more vigorous his offspring will be. And I may end up preferring one stag to the other. I do think there’s so many eggs in one of the coops (the coop that larger combed stag is in)...

Two breeding groups of the teacup Crackers have been set up. The hens are mature but the stags are not. The hens are laying but I hesitate to set any of these eggs until the stags get older.

Yes, this is him next to the red-banded micro hen I'm holding in my hand in the above post. I think he's the better looking stag. He just isn't the one I grabbed tonight. His comb is superior if I decide to make the Teacup Crackers conform to the junglefowl bantam standards.

Gonna make another go at this project. Micro pullet is now micro hen: Here is the 14 oz hen, pulled off of free range tonight: I have put both of these hens in a coop tonight with this very young stag: This stag is the son of General Lee and Suvivorlady, my tiny pure Cracker that raised...

Check this out. I was inventorying free range hens tonight. This one was roosting within reach: She’s fully grown, having mothered several broods already. She is 14 oz.

Micro-pullet with General Lee on the roost tonight.

For my own posterity, I am going to record Micro-pullet’s family tree here while I can still remember it. Tyrant (Cracker) to OEGB hen F1 red ears to F1 hen; brother and sister F1 white ears (uncle) to F2 hen F3 micro stag to F3 micro hen; brother and sister F4 current Micro-pullet planned x F1...

The micro cock took ill during his molt and died last night after struggling for weeks with what I believe was severe coccidiosis. It is common for my Crackers to succumb to coccidiosis if they’re 1) very red junglefowl-like in appearance and movement and 2) they are not raised free range from...

I have not been there. I almost reached out to their preservation society to see if I could get some of their birds. There are similar societies in Florida for the Key West and Ybor Cotypopulations that will makes birds available. The Ybor City group actually reached out to me and offered me...

The red junglefowl bantam cock is just a bit over 1.5lbs, a lot smaller than the wild bird.

I don’t see a reason for contention. By default the red junglefowl bantam doesn’t exist in nature, as its decidedly smaller than the natural red junglefowl. Its apparently an archaic breed that the American Bantam Association recognized in times past that we’ve pretty much forgotten about. A...