@@paulmyers3978 not yet but I feel like I’m getting close-ish. I still need to get the best color on the longtail birds. I might get there after next year but then I’ll need to make sure they all breed true and uniform.

What about culls

@@PaulHoward-k6c I don’t really feel like I can let culls go either as their existence might mess up my final breed if they got crossed back later on. I really want them all uniform and consistent when I release them.

@@RobG7aChattTN how big is your largest rooster they're actually pretty small birds right, I only have large birds and only want large birds for eggs and meat ,average age per year?

@@PaulHoward-k6c I’ve got some that are decent sized but long and lean. Still working on giving them body volume and decent egg size. Probably won’t ever have much meat but some hens are laying decent sized eggs. That’s all part of it. I want them all not just vibrant magenta but with good egg production and at least a little meat on their bones. Plus…also trying to get the big tails on them.

@@blunttool6446 THANKS!

It’s a breed that I’m making.

@@yyyytttt7 nothing. He has a tether on his leg so he doesn’t run off. Normally he’d be in a pen but the lighting wasn’t good enough to film him in there.

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What usually happens with these guys is they’ve never been outside of a cage before and there are too many unique things going on around them at once.

Yeah…I’m not selling anything yet but you can email me at [email protected].

In that area I have a mix of needle palms and Sabal minor (I think that’s a needle). I’m in zone 7a/b (called 8a on the new USDA map) so really too cold for Sabal palmetto. I have tall windmill palms and some XBrazoria palmettos that might get trunks some day.

Yeah…doing great. Held off on hatching over winter to let some young birds mature so not many new birds to film (I do have some but waiting for tails to fill out). This should be a really good year.

For millennia before that they had probably kept its chicks in their hunting camps as reserve food for rainy season.

Very nice! Sadly I don’t have any anymore.

@@RobG7aChattTN well that's too bad. But, where did you get this green jungle fowl btw?

@@fredymilenio I don’t remember the guy’s name. It was through softbillsforsale.com. Someone in Florida.

That’s a very good name and one up for consideration. I don’t think it’s been used by any other chicken breeds.

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Thanks!

Doing well! This is the first winter I skipped hatching through the winter and I’m so glad I did with all this cold. This next year should be really great. I need to do a new video for 2024.

Yeah…seems like whenever I see anything leaning purple most likely it’s a Game chicken. I’ve seen quite a few Game roosters with purple on the wings. Part of that might be because all the standard bred birds have “beetle green sheen” in their standards and blue or purple is frowned on.

@RobG7aChattTN yeah that makes sense. Personally the beetle green sheen does nothing for me so I'm glad the birds I like show more of the the blue and purple!

Thanks! This one is a pullet. I have a video of a cockerel from this line and it’s actually a little better!

@@RobG7aChattTN I watched a few videos on the cockerels as well. The color is quite amazing to me. I turned on notifications and will continue watching. 👍

I used to have them and they were really easy to sex at hatch. Maybe some of the current lines have lost the trait a bit but not the ones I had. Size might be tougher as it’s so gradual without outcrossing but outcrossing would mean you’d have to reconstruct the breed. I think they are already good free rangers too but I never did free range mine. There’s a guy that recreated the breed back before they were imported and he had a whole formula to do it. He made his pea combed so they could handle cold better. If you could find this posts on Backyardchickens.com maybe you could find bigger, better free rangers to mix and make autosexers and then cross to Cream Legbar to get the cream gene and the blue egg gene. Then you need to test breed to make the blue egg gene homozygous. Maybe it would be more fun to make your own breed and make birds that are autosexing and Olive Eggers. Hold on…found a link to the recipe. Even if you are just outcrossing you’ll probably need the chart that’s here: scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/gms9-autosexing-recipe/

Probably terrified and in a state of mild shock. Not tame whatsoever.

Thanks!

Thanks! His color could be a lot better but he’s really impressive in person!

Thanks! He doesn’t have nearly as much purple as most but he does have a little. The rest of him is really fantastic. Hopefully I can end up with a bird just like him but a little better tail and more purple. I can’t wait to see what his offspring will look like.

Sorry…but none of these birds will be sold until it is a standardized and uniform breed.

I’ll probably pass on that one… 😂

There’s Ayam Cemani way way back in the very beginning. Most of these birds start out with black facial skin including combs and wattles and at maturity they turn solid red. Even the hens are like that. I actually like them being distinct so people don’t think of them as just purple Cemani.

Not yet! I just can’t decide. I keep thinking the perfect name will come to me and it will be obvious.

No. Used to but not anymore.

His eyes are just the same size as any chicken but there’s a gap in between the eyeball and eyelid which is fairly common with my birds but I’d like to breed away from that.

Well…not really preserving a tradition. This is a new breed that I’m making. If you are referring to the Indonesia tradition of making Bekisars these birds don’t have any Green Jungle Fowl DNA in them but that was the inspiration for creating this breed to be similar in color to the Black Bekisars. The good news is these birds are fully fertile…males and females. So unlike the Bekisars they will breed easily and can be improved over generations.

Thank you!

Thank You! I now have at least three really nice cockerels to use from this generation. I’m pretty excited.

There were a few that laid blue or green eggs but almost all just lay a lightly tinted tan egg. We’ll see if any of the new generation lay blue but egg color is taking a big back-seat here. If at the end some lay blue I might make it a homozygous trait but most likely they’ll lose it.

Thank you!

I’ll check it out!

Not yet. I’m still trying to work towards a uniform breed and seeing if I can push the color further. I feel like a uniform breed might go on forever as an established breed but if I sell birds too soon others might just make purple Sumatras, or purple Ayam Cemanis, or purple (insert breed).