Favorite RU-vid ever Where can you see some one breed chickens back to a excellent surviving power and breed chickens that are carnivorous. Love these videos Ieveru time I see one I get excited. Only thing I would change is 1 upload more and 2 make a updat of the survival cattle
See there is alot of wild south american chicken in Americanas. Before Izzy's beak started deforming I gave her and the other bitties she was with meal worms and such as treats. Izzy would always get them faster than the olive eggers or the two new hampshire blues. They would chase her as fast as they could around their indoor large brooder aviary inside. Izzy dipped a dove and jumped up on perches. The olive egger probably had as much prey drive as Izzy but she just didn't have the mobility or the speed. One of the reasons I didn't cull Izzy was that she has heart and she's a very gutsy bird. And one day I will find another with her characteristics that outdo even your Enzo because she will be fastervbut won't kill bitties.
One of the hallmark characteristics of a functioning rooster is not just protection, it is also culling the flock of unhealthy members. Birds do not care who fathered what chick, and usually don't know. In the wild, bird species that do well tend to be ones with both parents in close attendance. The more you breed your birds back to wild, the more protective your roosters will be. This is good! Part of the role of a rooster with a flock is protection from outside predators, but it is also protection inside the flock from disease and age. Older birds are killed by younger ones, this is normal. Diseased birds are killed by other birds - very normal, and good. It is not predation, clearly; if it was, he would have gone after many more of them. He was protecting his flock from the diseased chicks by removing the source of the disease. It is instinct and normal. Good job on breeding!
Even my girls were carnivores! They loved hot dogs, mice, anything that would fit in their mouths! I would tell my friends, "Don't get too drunk and pass out in the yard! My gals will eat Ya"!!!
Florida is great for B free range-feral type chickens,my question is if you live in one of the northern states what breeds of chickens would you use to create a free range self sustaining chicken that might possibly serve the cold and snow with out a lot of pampering?
Two answers. First, Icelandic landrace chickens. I have spoken to many keepers of Icelandics who have been amazed by their foraging abilities in snow and otherwise find the all around great chickens for free ranging in the far north. Second, American gamefowl are actually birds of New England, the Midwest, and the British Isles (as the ancestral Old English game Oxford type). They can do quite well in cold climates.
I never did see any of my chickens go for a mouse but I would but bait crickets from time to time and feed them to the flock. They would fight over them and like you say, I could never get them full enough so that they would lose interest in them.
It will be a while before I offer pure Crackers again. I'm letting the hens raise a bunch of bitties this year and also crossing some with larger American gamefowl. By next year many of my Crackers are going to be 3/4 Cracker 1/4 American, but there will also be more pure Crackers available. If the American genes fold in well like I think they are going to I may let the entire Cracker flock become infused with them for health and vigor. I think my flock was inbred when I received them and have become more so since I've had them. I'm seeing that the cross breeds are definitely more disease resistant and hardy than either pure bred parent lines.
Hello, I have already written this under your amazing videos:) I am absolutely fascinated by sumatra chicken :) First I read the article ORIGIN "OF SUMATRA GAME FOWL - Aviculture Europe" by John Palmer. Then I managed to get three cocks and I couldn't get the hens. I cross them with a hen whose father was Red Junglefowl and mother American Game. The result is extremely wild chicken that has amazing flight skills and has the amazing power I have only seen in wild pheasants. You can hardly hold them in your hand and they are elusive for most predators. Today I also have purebred hens but I only cross them with Red Junglefowl, it is the basis of my line for survival in our forests. I think they are related to Aseel chicken
My brother cross bred Sumatras into his game chickens and it made for some really good looking birds. He still has some of the cross breeds living free range around his farm.
The terrorfowl are still a work in progress. They’re Beligian Bruge and Liege fighters crossed to sonatol aseel, and in the future I may add American game, Cracker, and/or Thai or another line of Liege/Bruges. I think a third line needs to be added to clear up any inbreeding issues inherent in the Belgian and aseel lines. One generation outcrossing between the two wasn’t enough. The Crackers are decended from red junglefowl and likely Spanish and/or American game. The American game I’m adding to them now come from Florida raised lines that are already pretty close to the Crackers genetically.
What sex was the chick's Endo picked on ? Wondering if that may play in his behavior? .. pretty interesting to watch them and their behavior.... check out a story of a 22 pound rooster called ( Weirdo ) genetics I think also play a part of behavior...the old saying the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.. do you know anything about Endo's parents? How they're behavior was compared to his? That's one thing I'm hopeing to breed with my chicken flock is behavior characteristics ... I'm definitely want a mouse eating rooster and chicken's..but need to get bigger rooster breed mine is a Japanese bantam. He's a good rooster and helps feeds the babies and protects them.... enjoyed and thanks!
Bro i thought all chickens did this. I used to have desi(pakistani local) chicken a whole back, and a sparrow chick flew into our yard and all of them attacked him and one of them swallowed him in2 sec
No but my brother has. He has a bunch coming up that are 50% Liege, 25% Cracker, and 25% aseel. They are looking awesome and may be the ultimate bird we're looking for. On my end, I'm doing 3/4 Liege to 1/4 aseel to see if it makes a bird that's generally a Liege but has the aseel's fire and broodiness. The Liege are in desperate need of new blood as both my brother and myself can tell that pure bred Liege are not as hardy as the crosses.
@@Florida_Bullfrog you might look into adding indio gigante to the mix... from what I've read they are a huge game fowl that still lays around 250 eggs a year...
