That Quail Place Forum
Raising Gamebirds => Brooding and Raising => Topic started by: 333_okh on April 01, 2008, 01:52:10 AM
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Well what should I know. I have 12 eggs in the incubator now and plan on another 24 soon.
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It really all depends on where the eggs came from. The more domestic strains of red junglefowl are very easy to raise while the purer strains are much more wild and consequently much more difficult to keep and produce offspring from. Did you get the eggs from a private breeder or a hatchery? If a breeder, do you know what strain they came from? The differences between individuals with a high degree of genetic contamination and purer birds can be like night and day. Once I know what you are working with I can advise further…
Tom
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Private breeder and they are very wild in nature.
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Ok, do you know what strain they are? If not you can just PM me the breeder's name and I might know from that. Anyways, if they are a wild type line as you indicated then they should be treated more like pheasants than chickens. They will hatch in 19-21 days, stop turning on day 17. Make sure the brooder is covered or the young birds will fly right out at a week or so of age. I use game bird starter (unmedicated) for all my young red junglefowl with good results. Provide heat as for pheasants. RJF seem to be susceptible to Marek's as well as Coccidiosis and they are intolerant of sulfonamides. But as long as eggs you have received do not containing any egg transmitted diseases (vertical transmission) and your facilities are clean you really shouldn't have any problems. What are your plans for them?
Here is a short video clip of some of my birds last December or so...i just uploaded it to youtube about a week ago. Sorry that the video quality is quite poor.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ya2URAaMtM8
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Junglefowl Links
An Assessment of Traits Shown By Captive Red Junglefowl in India
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/dec102004/1498.pdf
RJF of Penninsular Malaysia -
http://ayamhutan.tripod.com/junglefowl.html
H.S. Wong's RJF Flock in Malaysia -
http://www.geocities.com/hs_wong33/RedJungleFowl.html
Oriental Bird Images RJF Page -
http://www.orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?action=searchresult&Bird_ID=53
Animal Diversity Site RJF Page -
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Gallus_gallus.html
GBWF RJF Page -
http://www.gbwf.org/pheasants/junglefowl_red.html
GBWF Pheasant Index -
http://www.gbwf.org/pheasants/index.html
GBWF Homepage -
http://www.gbwf.org/
Carolina/Virginia Pheasant & Waterfowl Society's Richardson Strain RJF Page -
http://www.cvpws.com/junglefowl2.html
Roman Acres' Richardson Strain RJF Page -
http://www.geocities.com/pheasant_dude/redj.html
Concerns For Genetic Integrity of RJF -
http://www.feathersite.com//Poultry/NDG/RJFbySPPA.html
Genetic Endangerment of Wild RJF -
http://www.uga.edu/srel/Reprint/2339.htm
Harbinger of Dawn: The Red Junglefowl
http://www.wildlifetrustofindia.org/html/news/features/060203_jungle_fowl.html
Himachal Pradesh May Have Pure RJF -
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050326/himachal.htm#5
Haryana Wildlife Dept Release RJF in Wilds of India - http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98oct03/haryana.htm#3
Himachal to Commercially Breed Red Junglefowl -
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=57801&cat=India
Red Roving Fowl -
http://www.geocities.com/hs_wong33/Oneworld.htm
Domestic Chickens Not Descended From RJF Alone -
http://www.panopliageneticus.com/fowl.html
Golden Egg Page 1 - Junglefowl Hybridization
http://kickingthorn.com/v-web/gallery/Heirloom-Gallus?page=1
RJF Native or Introduced in Philippines? -
http://www.coconutstudio.com/Chickens.htm
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v079n03/p0479-p0481.html
RJF on the Solomon Islands -
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4665/JUNGFOWL.htm
Auk Library -
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/
Dominant RJF Hens Rear the Most Young -
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v111n04/p0863-p0872.html
Parental & Courtship Feeding in RJF -
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v088n01/p0021-p0029.html
The Feathersite's RJF Page -
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/NDG/BRKRedJF.html
Kelly Wheelbarger's Junglefowl -
www.readmtnpheasantry.homestead.com/index.html
Saul Villagrana's Junglefowl -
http://groups.msn.com/villagranapheasantry/villagranapheasantryandloft.msnw
Hear a Red Junglefowl Cock Crow -
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461568922_761552516_-1_1/Red_Jungle_Fowl.html
Hear a Red Junglefowl Cock Crow 2 -
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/naturesongs/rooster1.wav/view.html
Hear a Grey Junglefowl Cock Crow -
http://www.indiabirds.com/Content/FullImagePage.asp?Bird_SortID=41&cid=1&Page=BGallery&Birdid=&pageno=&totalphotos
Thai Jungle Fowl Forum
http://Thaijunglefowl.freeforums.org
Tom Condon's Junglefowl Site
http://www.wildfowl.uconn.edu/
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Thanks guys for all of the help.
So, how we do these things fly? I want to have them aroud one of our cabins where we have peafowl, but they need to avoid the bobcats and the coyotes. Additionally is there any sporting capabilities from these?
The ringnecks did not do so well out there.
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Odds are if the RNs didn't make it, the RJF will be just food for the predators : in that case, a waste of time and money.
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Predation on the ranch is almost all nocturnal, so I was hoping these guys might perch in the vast oaks and conifer that surround the cabin.
Most will be on a farm, but thought I might take some to the ranch. The peacocks and the Guinea fowl have done fine with a small cover of 6 of each, but they are soooooo damned noisy.
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My Jungle Fowl will not free range need to be in a pen
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I was hoping for a semi to full wild bird like a ringneck.