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You may be right. But almost all cockers I've known think roundheads are too smart to be deeply game. They have a distant look in their eye! And it's a widely recognized problem finding steel game Aseels, which is where American roundheads began. But with regular roundheads bred from Aseels many...

Since I've always loved blueface Hatch, but dislike those with pale faces, I love that rooster. And Lanky. Beauties. These would be my ideal free range males, though maybe with 1/4–1/8 roundhead to put a pea comb on them especially if I were north of Georgia or SC.

My experience and what some others have told me: permanently freeranging flocks, of even active competition fighters, can form peaceable existence with enough room for them to claim their own territories. And have heard of one cocker who conditioned cocks in fairly close proximity by discing...

That's your mating, right there: Lanky x Aseel cross. My hunch is the best weights for free rangers not heavily supplemented are 4 lb. cocks and 3 lb hens. Possibly a half pound larger for each. They'd have the wings and strength to run, fly, evade and roost high. A 4.5 lb cock with sharp...

He looks like a cross I made years ago when I had a flock, in southern Ohio, like you are developing. I mated a spangled American gamecock to a buff Orpington hen and got a perfect pullet. By which I mean she was large but sleek, kind of like a very large game hen. Then I mated her to a black...

Gail Damerow, The Chicken Health Handbook: Injectable [1% solution] and drench forms [.8%] of Ivermectin can be given by mouth at rate of 0.25 cc for large breed chickens. Repeat in 10 days to two weeks. I added the percentages. Not sure which matters. But get a small syringe, 3 cc/ml. Down...

Ivermectin also treats scaly leg mites. Not sure about other, feather, mites.

I've always read that a grey cock over a red hen is the issue because pullets will be pure for grey and the stags grey with red in wing butts. But a red cock over a grey hen gives you grey stags and red pullets that are pure for red. Is this not true?

Am not sure you later address this, but what method did you use to worm everyone with Ivermectin?

Here in SW VA, we have huge black ratsnakes. One got into my hoophouse and ate 11 chicks from under their mother one night last spring. I had the coop's welded wire covered with chicken wire except for a couple places 3-4' up. But these snakes are climbers! So I spent some time last week...

To me, this is your base! Beauty, form; not too big or small. A darker partridge hen might be better for lessening predator attacks. But personally I am not real fond of black so to me these are prettier.

Can you explain the Hmong breeding techniques or refer me to a link or thread on this?

What is, or was, the Carolina bantam experiment?

I haven't read the whole thread, so this may now be irrelevant. But my experience is a big hen often produces big offspring out of a small rooster. The hen sets the size more than the male.

I wonder what kind of hawks. I gave a young gamecock to my daughter, and it killed a hawk that had just killed one of his hens. The hawk was a northern sharp shinned, about the size of a big crow. A red tailed hawk, for example, is so much bigger I wonder how that would have gone. But a hawk on...