Watch as greater and lesser prairie chickens perform their annual courtship dances during spring nesting season. Kansas has the highest prairie chicken populations of any state.
People are always talking about planting trees and forests. Why aren't we also talking about planting prairies and grasslands? They store lots of CO2 in their rooted and they supports lots of plants and animals!
These guys and the Sage Grouse are in trouble. very concerning. Its hard to fight the habitat fight when facing wildfires and such. I hope we can just come back and keep planting and fighting development . Our natural resources are our character.
Please note that despite their common name, these birds are actually in the grouse family, Tetraonidae. They are very hard to locate and ultimately raise in a captive environment. One factor is their susceptibility of disease and infection compared to other gamebirds, like quails, turkeys, guineafowl, pheasants, and domestic poultry. If you're really longing to get these "chickens", I suggest you do lots of research first and contact legitimate breeders so they can share their expertise of care advice and tips on rearing various game fowl. Here's a quick directory of some breeders that keep grouse (there's so few I recognize): www.grouseparkwaterfowl.com/ www.praviary.com/ www.purelypoultry.com/grouse-c-257_281.html facebook.com/gordon.bowker.14
In fact the family Tetraonidae is no longer restricted to the grouse, recent classifications have also indicated that turkeys and koklass pheasants are sister taxa to grouse, thus now reclassifies turkeys and koklass pheasants as part of Tetraonidae, additionally chickens (genus Gallus) actually belong to the family Gallidae, which also includes the bamboo partridges, francolins, spurfowl, peafowl, arguses, peacock pheasants, crimson-headed partridge, snowcocks, dwarf quails, malagasy partridges, and desert partridges, surprisingly, the gamebird families Gallidae and Tetraonidae are classified within the superfamily Galloidea.
People are always talking about planting trees and forests. Why aren't we also talking about planting prairies and grasslands? They store lots of CO2 in their rooted and they supports lots of plants and animals!
These guys and the Sage Grouse are in trouble. very concerning.
Its hard to fight the habitat fight when facing wildfires and such.
I hope we can just come back and keep planting and fighting development .
Our natural resources are our character.
NOC1TIME wildfires are good for bird population.
Fires are an important part of plain ecosystems.
Oil industry and others that take their habitat are the difficult issue
Wonderful!
how I can get some of this chickens??
let me know please, krmn
Please note that despite their common name, these birds are actually in the grouse family, Tetraonidae.
They are very hard to locate and ultimately raise in a captive environment. One factor is their susceptibility of disease and infection compared to other gamebirds, like quails, turkeys, guineafowl, pheasants, and domestic poultry.
If you're really longing to get these "chickens", I suggest you do lots of research first and contact legitimate breeders so they can share their expertise of care advice and tips on rearing various game fowl.
Here's a quick directory of some breeders that keep grouse (there's so few I recognize):
www.grouseparkwaterfowl.com/
www.praviary.com/
www.purelypoultry.com/grouse-c-257_281.html
facebook.com/gordon.bowker.14
Go to Kansas
Also I'm using my mom's account thing and I'm a boy
In fact the family Tetraonidae is no longer restricted to the grouse, recent classifications have also indicated that turkeys and koklass pheasants are sister taxa to grouse, thus now reclassifies turkeys and koklass pheasants as part of Tetraonidae, additionally chickens (genus Gallus) actually belong to the family Gallidae, which also includes the bamboo partridges, francolins, spurfowl, peafowl, arguses, peacock pheasants, crimson-headed partridge, snowcocks, dwarf quails, malagasy partridges, and desert partridges, surprisingly, the gamebird families Gallidae and Tetraonidae are classified within the superfamily Galloidea.
beautiful birds. I just saw Greater Prairie Chicken hatching eggs on ebay today over 275 for 12.
They usto live in new Jersey long ago
Beautiful
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