Update to my Free Range survival chickens I’ve been working on for several years now. Both my Florida Cracker gamefowl and my hawk killer/terrorfowl project.
I live in Australia and spent a number of years in Fiji. I have always liked chickens, various different breeds with their unique qualities. I like what you are doing, attempting to breed chickens that are good foragers, with a degree of productivity in eggs and meat with the ability to defend themselves against predators. Sensible, wise, something that till watching your videos I thought no one was interested in. The kind of thing that I would very much like to do, but don't have the resources and now live in town. Please keep on with it, surely there is a need for this type of chicken in many parts of the world. When I did keep chickens in Australia, common predators were foxes, hawks and ravens. In Fiji it was hawks but the mongoose were devastating. You have beautiful birds sir, blessings upon you, your family and your birds, well done.
I am anxiously awaiting the "wild" fowl video. I live up north, and while we don't have a lot of snakes, we have hawks, foxes, and coyotes. Ever since I found your videos, I've been considering a more wild 'buffer zone' flock of some sort of game chicken. We've got dogs which do a good job, but considering some more flighty birds at the edge of the property that would have a better chance.
What a great video. Thank you so much for the video update. Love your content! Glad to see I have some hens that are VERY similar to your black turkey like hens. Awesome video!!
I recently picked up a beautiful 25% Asil 50% Albany 25% red quill rooster to use for making better survival chickens on my land. I am planning on crossing him with some red star hens to try and improve their hardiness and survivability traits. I cannot thank you enough for your information you provide in these videos.
This baby girl has friendly carter with chickens also your rooster’s really friendly to baby girls I love those friendly attitude both the girl and your rooster’s this video melted my heart
Hey I appreciate your videos. I know firsthand how much time it takes to produce. We have American game fowl and I’ve learned so much from your videos.
Thanks to your advice to David the Good, we will be getting some to inbreed our spoiled ones! Previous owners left some game here twenty years ago but thought of them as only for fighting. 🙏🐓
Whenever I took my Egyptian rooster crossed it with a red star hen The Offspring they just as good as the red star with Great Big O tannish White eggs. I've been cross-breeding the Egyptian chicken into my flock for about 3 years now everything I cross it to comes out amazing. Also came across some research don't know if it's exactly true or not but I think the Egyptian chicken is Sri Lankan junglefowl. I'm having so much fun with this breed after watching your educational shows it made it that much funny and now you have some I've been waiting for this video LOL excited for you.
I am breeding my f-4s from crossbreeding these birds most of it from your advice thank you. I will be doing a backcross next spring back into the Egyptian chicken!
Dang that roo was gorgeous! If you hadn't explained about him having a white ear instead of a red-eared said go ahead try to get him into shows. Very beautiful!😊
I feel like it's coming full circle. David the good recommended your channel so I subscribed and then watching your videos, and then I went to Tennessee to buy American Breese chickens and fertilized and they said some of their stock came from greenfire farms. We're all working together.
I got one I can film. The milk cow went kaput, but not before dropping a half-zebu heifer. The little calve fended for itself at a month old, no bottle feeding from me. And is now a pretty little red and grey heifer. Tough little thing.
Possibly mastitis or gut parasites. She started wasting away after she calved. She was eating like a hog too. I was even giving her grain, but it was as if she was starving. She was making plenty of milk. She finally laid down and wouldn’t get back up for days. I fed and watered her in place and finally put her down.
@@Florida_Bullfrog I am sorry to hear that. She was a pretty little jersey. I’ve always heard Bahia doesn’t have enough protein to support dairy animals, whether it’s dairy cows, dairy goats, or dairy sheep. Wonder if that played into it as well or was it just after she calved? Jerseys are great, but they come with their own set of problems. People don’t breed them like they used to. My grandpas jerseys growing up were completely different animals than what I see today. Anyway, hope to see the heifer at some point. I think you’re set on zebu, which is great, but you might be happier with a Dexter/zebu cross when raising for beef
@@Florida_Bullfrog I’m also interested in hearing when this heifer first goes into heat. Jerseys mature super early and zebu tend to not come into heat until 2 years old. She’ll probably be somewhere in between.
Thx for sharing! Just found your channel. Would you sell me some chks? I cannot seem to find a supplier. I live an hr from Pcola. I have plenty of fenced woods- not that it keeps predators out.
Recently I discovered that red junglefowls could reach a flight speed of about 60 miles per hour or maybe more. Can Gamefowl chckens fly that fast too?
Hey bullfrog love the channel! Been watching your videos on survival fowl and I was interested in getting touch with you over how I can get some free range fowl for my homestead that will protect my egg layers but not be aggressive towards my family lol. Is there any way I can talk to you about this? I would like a small flock no more than 8
Where can I buy some hens like the silver ones I had one but she died not too long ago I’d love another just like her or a couple willing to pay shipping + whatever you decide the price for them
I don't think that a rooster that kills it's rival or his offspring is natural or necessity, respectfully,a natural feral flock has dominant,and submissive roosters living and let live.
What you’ll notice in many urban feral flocks is there will only be one rooster with long spurs, and the rest will have little nubs with small points. The roosters will small spurs aren’t truly mature yet. A rooster doesn’t hit his prime until he’s at least 2 years old. Some breeds aren’t there until 3 years old. That’s when the drive to fight to the death kicks in. That mature rooster will kill other mature roosters but only boss around young roosters. Also, feral flocks are often intermixed with laying breeds of various types that have had the natural fight drive deadened. When evaluating feral chickens, you might be looking at some that are less game or junglefowl and more coopfowl. But in a state of nature, the wild chicken suffers no rivals.
