About 5 years ago I had 3 acres of land in a small NH town. They arrived at the post office in April as newly hatched eggs. They were NH reds and one Cochin, guaranteed girls. As that summer went on they free ranged to all the neighbors houses. The neighbors loved them. I heard only one complaint and that was that my rooster didn't crow enough! The rooster started as a little chick who climbed on top of the feeder and tried to fly out of the brooder with no wings. I called her Zenya Warrior Chickie. She pecked everyone else of course. One Spring morning snow started to fall. When I opened the chicken house door, Zenya ran out first as usual. She looked at the snow flakes falling and became Zenya Warrior Roo when she suddenly tried to crow. My health became so much of a problem that I had to give up everything that winter and move to Colorado to live in a retirement home near my daughter. I miss my chickens terribly.
As a fellow game fowl raiser muse I want to say GREAT VIDEO!!!! Absolutely love and agree 💯 % with your presentation! I raise Modern Game standard and bantam.
Game chickens are, by nature, territorial, and tend to stay within sight of their roost. But this also means that game roosters will fight for their territory. More domesticated chickens have lost much of this territorial nature, along with their broodiness. So, game chickens are naturally the best 'yard' chickens.
I found mine in the middle of the road of San Diego as a pullet last year. I live in Florida now and she is soooo broody, just put two colorful eggs under her today so we'll see! But I love my gamehen. I got a Polish and a Barred rock too.
Great Video, we just moved to Tennessee and were thinking about what types of birds to buy for our operation. Thank you very much for this information, we will be buying them ASAP! Lets all get ready for this great depression moving our way!
My mum had 3 chickens disappear overnight to a suspected fox or feral dog. Found one of their bloodied bodies. The remaining chickens now fly up into a mango tree to roost and refuses to go back to the coop (pretty smart). Looking for game birds now who have a bit of a stronger survival instinct . Wyandotte chicks won't even eat small caterpillars; they'll never be good pest eaters
I have 38 chickens here on my farm down here in South Alabama. I have six blue laced red wyandottes that gobble up everything in their path. I've even seen them catch butterflies out of the air. Beetles, spiders, ladybugs, crickets, grasshoppers, grubs, worms, caterpillars, june bugs, etc. They gobble up everything. I free range my chickens with 12 guineas. When I free range them, my 3 German shepherds watch over them. I've been around chickens, goats, cows, horses, turkeys, quail, peacocks, guineas, and hogs since I came into this world. I was raised on a farm, and now have my own farm. I'll be 43 years old on Nov. 22nd. I was born on Thanksgiving 1979. I know a thing or two about chickens and livestock.
Thank you for your time & sharing❣️ I acquired 3 game hens and today a rooster, in a fog trap. We started a coop for the hens last week, when I caught them, in a 8 x 12 shed. I am leary to add the rooster, for free it may try to tag my wife, to protect the hens. In your video you said they rarely do such, can you give me some tips and advice, please? We would love to care for them and let them breed to keep on our 3 acres, here in Alabama❣️ Any advice would be largely appreciated and respected. Thank you for take time to produce these videos, I did subscribe and liked, we do appreciate your time, thanks again
Ok thanks David I have a bad shb problem I going to get me some and give it a try . Thanks for all your videos I’m a new beekeeper and you have helped me a lot . Thanks
Came over from BarnyardBees:) Have to agree chickens are great to have, no matter on a farm or in town. They sure do keep the bug numbers down and are also entertaining. We don't have a hive set up yet but it will be in the chicken yard, is that a good idea to start with? It was also nice to see your pen and coop setup. Interesting the animals are together and they all get along, they look real happy as well. Will check into the game chickens, thank you!
@@homesteadhacksandhens Thanks very much, it's good to know they will be alright in the pen. Pretty exciting starting out and look forward to seeing what happens!
Guineas are really good for eating ticks. Feed them alittle grain everyday and they will stay around closer. They get along with our chickens and rooster just fine
@@homesteadhacksandhens you done it the right way that's how ours were raised from babies. Our guineas will stray out alittle sometimes but stay close to the yards more than not and haven't turned on the chickens yet lol anything is possible. Thanks for the video I may try a few game chickens before to long
@@cornbreadbees5385 They started getting into neighbors garden, even though I didn't think they would harm anything, the neighbors didn't appreciate them. Lol.
My neighbor gave me a game hen that is sitting on about 7-8 eggs, she has about 50 of these birds..I also have 3 Rhode Island red and one rooster that I keep penned up in their own yard. I was letting them roam around in my whole yard but I’m getting ready to plant my garden and I don’t want them eating on my plants, so do you not eat the eggs that these game hens lay. I know my neighbors game hens lay all over the yard. She’s walks all over the yard to find them and she doesn’t want her chicken back but it’s not gonna do me any good unless I have a rooster for her. Oh, it just dawned on me the Eggs that she’s sitting on right now I can have some roosters in that bunch. OK thanks for the video.
I have several different breeds of chickens . Would like to get some game fowl chickens to add to my flock. What should I start with? I all ready have a roo. and 6 hens.
"they make a lot of noise if they dont get fed twice a day" me too😂
Agreed! Got tired of losing chickens to predators. Lose alot less now
About 5 years ago I had 3 acres of land in a small NH town. They arrived at the post office in April as newly hatched eggs. They were NH reds and one Cochin, guaranteed girls. As that summer went on they free ranged to all the neighbors houses. The neighbors loved them. I heard only one complaint and that was that my rooster didn't crow enough! The rooster started as a little chick who climbed on top of the feeder and tried to fly out of the brooder with no wings. I called her Zenya Warrior Chickie. She pecked everyone else of course. One Spring morning snow started to fall. When I opened the chicken house door, Zenya ran out first as usual. She looked at the snow flakes falling and became Zenya Warrior Roo when she suddenly tried to crow.
My health became so much of a problem that I had to give up everything that winter and move to Colorado to live in a retirement home near my daughter. I miss my chickens terribly.
Maybe you can eventually get a small bantam hen to keep as a pet I have a silverduckwing bantam she is super sweet and I keep her as a pet
Awww.. yes they are awesome! It's awesome seeing the biddies running behind their moma
As a fellow game fowl raiser muse I want to say GREAT VIDEO!!!! Absolutely love and agree 💯 % with your presentation! I raise Modern Game standard and bantam.
I have them too and I’m trying to learn as much as I can
I am looking to buy a couple game roosters in Florida. Where to look?
Game chickens are, by nature, territorial, and tend to stay within sight of their roost. But this also means that game roosters will fight for their territory. More domesticated chickens have lost much of this territorial nature, along with their broodiness. So, game chickens are naturally the best 'yard' chickens.
I found mine in the middle of the road of San Diego as a pullet last year. I live in Florida now and she is soooo broody, just put two colorful eggs under her today so we'll see! But I love my gamehen. I got a Polish and a Barred rock too.
Do you have them all together? I just found one and I have a barred rock but I'm working on them getting to know each other
Great Video, we just moved to Tennessee and were thinking about what types of birds to buy for our operation. Thank you very much for this information, we will be buying them ASAP! Lets all get ready for this great depression moving our way!
Stumbled across the channel.. was like... I know that voice! Glad to see more common interest. You add a lot of good content to youtube.
Thanks so much, I'm getting ready to start making alot of videos here on homestead Hacks.
Just got my first game chickens. Very excited to watch them on our homestead. Great Vid 👍
Where did you find them?
My mum had 3 chickens disappear overnight to a suspected fox or feral dog. Found one of their bloodied bodies. The remaining chickens now fly up into a mango tree to roost and refuses to go back to the coop (pretty smart). Looking for game birds now who have a bit of a stronger survival instinct . Wyandotte chicks won't even eat small caterpillars; they'll never be good pest eaters
I have 38 chickens here on my farm down here in South Alabama. I have six blue laced red wyandottes that gobble up everything in their path. I've even seen them catch butterflies out of the air. Beetles, spiders, ladybugs, crickets, grasshoppers, grubs, worms, caterpillars, june bugs, etc. They gobble up everything. I free range my chickens with 12 guineas. When I free range them, my 3 German shepherds watch over them. I've been around chickens, goats, cows, horses, turkeys, quail, peacocks, guineas, and hogs since I came into this world. I was raised on a farm, and now have my own farm. I'll be 43 years old on Nov. 22nd. I was born on Thanksgiving 1979. I know a thing or two about chickens and livestock.
Thank you for your time & sharing❣️ I acquired 3 game hens and today a rooster, in a fog trap. We started a coop for the hens last week, when I caught them, in a 8 x 12 shed. I am leary to add the rooster, for free it may try to tag my wife, to protect the hens. In your video you said they rarely do such, can you give me some tips and advice, please? We would love to care for them and let them breed to keep on our 3 acres, here in Alabama❣️ Any advice would be largely appreciated and respected. Thank you for take time to produce these videos, I did subscribe and liked, we do appreciate your time, thanks again
How lovely! Such a nice homestead.🥰
Ok thanks David I have a bad shb problem I going to get me some and give it a try . Thanks for all your videos I’m a new beekeeper and you have helped me a lot . Thanks
I have some game hens. All go broody on a regular basis, except one that only got broody once. She lays and stops laying, but doesn't get broody.
Came over from BarnyardBees:) Have to agree chickens are great to have, no matter on a farm or in town. They sure do keep the bug numbers down and are also entertaining. We don't have a hive set up yet but it will be in the chicken yard, is that a good idea to start with? It was also nice to see your pen and coop setup. Interesting the animals are together and they all get along, they look real happy as well. Will check into the game chickens, thank you!
Chicken yard would be perfect for the bee hive.
@@homesteadhacksandhens Thanks very much, it's good to know they will be alright in the pen. Pretty exciting starting out and look forward to seeing what happens!
I love OEG's or Am. games too all my farms at least had 2 but more like 8 avg :)
We have similar chickens in Poland :Green legged partridge and Polish liliput (bantam, not crested).
Guineas are really good for eating ticks. Feed them alittle grain everyday and they will stay around closer. They get along with our chickens and rooster just fine
I did feed them in a feeder hanging on the barn, and they was raised as babies with the chickens, and still left the yard, and picked on the chickens.
@@homesteadhacksandhens you done it the right way that's how ours were raised from babies. Our guineas will stray out alittle sometimes but stay close to the yards more than not and haven't turned on the chickens yet lol anything is possible. Thanks for the video I may try a few game chickens before to long
@@cornbreadbees5385 They started getting into neighbors garden, even though I didn't think they would harm anything, the neighbors didn't appreciate them. Lol.
I also heard guineas will sit on chicken eggs if the mother doesnt?
Great content, thank you 😊
Hey- I used to live in the high desert- very few trees there...
My neighbor gave me a game hen that is sitting on about 7-8 eggs, she has about 50 of these birds..I also have 3 Rhode Island red and one rooster that I keep penned up in their own yard. I was letting them roam around in my whole yard but I’m getting ready to plant my garden and I don’t want them eating on my plants, so do you not eat the eggs that these game hens lay. I know my neighbors game hens lay all over the yard. She’s walks all over the yard to find them and she doesn’t want her chicken back but it’s not gonna do me any good unless I have a rooster for her. Oh, it just dawned on me the Eggs that she’s sitting on right now I can have some roosters in that bunch. OK thanks for the video.
nice set up
Looking fora couple game roosters- where to look?
I have several different breeds of chickens . Would like to get some game fowl chickens to add to my flock. What should I start with? I all ready have a roo. and 6 hens.
Nice video!
I love my game hens
The only issue I see is the cold. I live in an area where it’s wide open and windy cold in winter with heavy snow.
Do you have to feed game chickens, or do they find all the food they need?
I have a feeder on my barn that I keep corn in. That's all I give them, they mostly forage.
I was just given 4 game chickens. The exact ones you have. How often do they lay eggs?
Not an expert as I just got mine this spring. But ours stopped laying this summer and haven’t started up again 😢
I've seen the game chickens dominating guineas in the past
When the game roosters cross with the laying hens do you still get good egg production from the hens produced from the breeding?
Do you have other gamefowl cockerels and do they tolerate each Other?
Good question... they have to fight if they're true game fowl.
Allegedly if they grow up together they don’t, which has been true for us so far. But if you separate them and then put them together they fight.
pretty chickens :)
Thank you!!! :)
What kind of game chickens do you recommend?
Wow so which farm bird is the bravest for eating a live snake???, haven't seen any videos other than them walking around a snake
Are game chicken's good egg layers just asking because im thinking about getting some game chicken's
no fleas and ticks around here
How do you keep the game fowl out of the garden?
What do you do with the goats. Milk,meat or just pets? Thanks
These are just pets, but I want milk goats.
@@homesteadhacksandhens they sell those at our livestock auctions here in Mississippi
How do you protect the game chickens from hawks and coyotes, and other predators? And how often do you feed your game chickens?
You dont have to.
within that picture frame, how many acres are there?
Are there particular breeds that are better than others?
Not really they are all good
for all the benefits you mentions, why just game chickens?
There the best for that
@@codydavis4946 i also love fishing for catfish and bass so good
Do you ever sell them
So you feed the gamers?, or just let them scratch around?
I have a feeder hanging on the barn that I fill with corn.
how do you keep racoons from getting them
The chickens that stay in the barn are protected by the goats. The goat would kill anything like that that would try to come in.
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My guineas stay on the farm and get along with my chickens. They don’t even wander all over the farm. They stay pretty close
I had guineas couple years ago, they got to going into neighbors yard, and into their garden. I had to get rid of them.
Those game chickens will kill each other if they meet
David will the games eat your bees
Nope sure won't. Have never seen a chicken eat a live bee.
I've seen lots of folks keep bees with chickens and never seen anyone have a complaint about it.
These things
Anyone that has a chicken needs a dog to Gard it frome predators
Unless you kill the hawks you can forget about doing this long term. They will eventually slowly disappear in time. I’ve already done this experience
Man that sucks
No they can’t maybe 15 foot in the air for 200 yards tops and I gave you 100 yards just out of respect. I can run one down within 150 yards useually.