2011年10月11日 · True Junglefowl are found only in Asia, and mainly in the Far East or Southeast. Red, Grey, and Green are the main types I know of, though I believe there is a fourth. These birds are small (usually less than 5 pounds for males); have single combs; longer, semi-low-carried tails; and a body carriage/build similar to many Mediterranean breeds ...

2023年8月12日 · Intro: The Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) is a species of chicken native to Southeast Asia. Here are eight characteristics of the Red Junglefowl from around 1500: Physical Appearance: The Red Junglefowl is a medium-sized bird with a slender body...

2016年4月4日 · She is somewhat not to wild like her siblings that I got. She more easier to catch by hand than a net. When I sent this hen to the breeder, he told me she was a project pullet out of his thailand gamefowl x red junglefowl. I'm surprise how I got her and she was the first to lay egg. Her eggs is lightly bigger than the normal sized red jungle ...

2011年7月22日 · Junglefowl are not pheasants. Many decades ago, this was the opinion that Junglefowl were a type of pheasant, belonging to the Pheasant family. We know today that Junglefowl probably belong to their own family, the Gallusinidae. This theory is gaining common consensus amongst avian systematists.

2022年4月19日 · What is your experience with Red Junglefowl disease resistance? I have a disease - maybe a mareks disease for several years in my breeding. I found my Sumatra chicken and Leghorns to be hardy. but some fatty or breed-affected breeds that I added to the flock soon died. American game fowl also has no problems.

2010年10月26日 · Red Junglefowl are smart. If there is a coop around, with nice basket nests with grass or straw - they will use that. If they have no housing, they will probably find a nest if you are giving them a lot of cover.

2019年5月14日 · Wild Red Jungle fowl were never raised as farm stock in the US. They were stocked by South Carolina Fish and Game as a game animal, an idea that never quite took off, but the chickens remain in an isolated population. Gamefowl, (bankivoid gamefowl) have had recent (in last 400 years) outcrosses to WRJF, and share many traits.

2019年6月25日 · I read a post here called "Establishing Feral Chicken flock" from 2020. It ran for 12 pages, it was very interesting. By the way, did you know that there was an attempt to establish Red Junglefowl in the USA as a wild game bird decades ago. Scientists / conservationists chose the Southern USA...

2024年2月19日 · We have acquired a Red Jungle Fowl, she just showed up in our backyard one day and never left. Since then, we’ve been feeding her pellets. In the winter it dropped to low teens so we made a decent makeshift coop to help keep her warm and safer from predators. She now prefers to lay her eggs in here.

2009年1月9日 · The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) is the main ancestor of today’s chickens [4,5], although there has been introgression from other junglefowl species, such as the grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) [5]. Domestic chickens and red junglefowl are still the same species and interbreed when able.