Best Free Range Survival Homestead Chickens 2021 Update Florida Cracker Gamefowl, Liege, and Turkeys
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- čas přidán 28. 02. 2021
- Update for my free-range, self-sufficient, homestead survival chickens, the Florida Cracker gamefowl. I also show off other poultry I’m raising and discuss my future breeding plans. My book on how to raise chickens free range with minimal care will be out soon (Summer 2024). #chicken #homesteading #freerangechicken #backyardchickens #permaculture #organicfarming
Let me know how ya’ll are liking the new camera. There should be a significant picture quality increase over previous videos. Also let me know if 4k is happening for those of you with 4k displays.
Camera is great please Pump Up the Volume
Will do. At the end of the clip I was using the camera’s native mic and it picked up all that wind noise. In fact I originally shot the whole video with the native mic and the wind noise was terrible, so I went back and reshot it all except the end with my daughter using a shotgun mic pointed to me for commentary and with a thick wind break. It muffled the recording but did a good job of cutting out the wind. My computer speakers can be loud so it is isn’t always clear to me when I’m editing how loud something ends up being.
@@Florida_Bullfrog thank you sir. I enjoy your channel
Would you be interested in crossing some line with me on your game bird eggs? I have only standard old English games free ranging on my farm. They have been raising their own chicks and doing very well for me now for 5 1/2yrs. They are free range day and night 24/7 365days a year. I im purposely raising them to let nature pick the survivors and produce the next years stock this way. My hens have a very protective traits and i have had them fight off dogs, foxes, and hawks that would go after their chicks.
The perfect survival chicken breed is Sumatra chicken. Amazing flight and escape skills when attacked by predators.
These birds are from a rough neighborhood called "The chicken projects" lol
😂 this comment had me literally laughing
Love the chicken updates please keep them coming
I had some just like these. They called them red jungle fowl but after many years eventually the Bob cats got them all. Too much brush on my property for ambush points. They could fly like the wind no doubt though.
You provide great info and are clearly an intelligent gentleman. Thanks for sharing.
Your chickens are nothing short of Amazing Sir 👍
Love chickens
The way how you take care of them is❤
I will subscribe
From Brazil
They are beautiful birds! Thanks for sharing!
I'm so happy to have found your channel. I live in Clay County. I've learned so much from your videos. Your birds are gorgeous.
We have a large flock of these wandering free on a property we bought in northeast Florida. They are a lot of fun to watch.
Awesome information regarding chickens/fowls. Thank you
Well Mr Bullfrog, you have a nice farm I like it, but the Way how you run it, it's really amazing and natural hope good price on its end product. Big up.
I'm from Citrus County, we had these birds when I was younger. Never realized they were the original game chickens.
I really love color red jungle fowl and then taste of the meat very delicious done broiler chicken
You have some healthy birds !
This is a great and informative video!
That is the prettiest rooster ever bro! Keep it up!
Howdy, I just found your videos. Which is awesome cuz I'm in N. Florida & couldn't find any one around me that had any videos that was on what I needed so what I'd like to know is are you still doing videos to date in 2022. I need to know more about my chickens & maybe need to know where to get other chickens from. Okay then, hopefully I'll hear back from you or see another updated video. Thank you. Oh, I wanted to say that I appreciate your videos so informative & such Beautiful ❤️ braids. Wow...glad to hear that you're bringing back a bird that should've Never gone extinct. In today's day & age We all need to do everything we can to protect nature & the wild life. Thank you sir for sure a great video. I realize these that I'm watching are a year old I'm hoping for new ones.
I'm actually working on a book about survival chickens for David the Good, I'm spending a lot of my free time writing the book, so I won't have many chicken updates until the book is done.
they look wonderful...
Nice little asil cross. Looks like a half and half. Nice station on them
Hi glad I found your video !, I’m looking to get some bantams to free range on our new homestead , we are on the panhandle as well
really cool project! well done!
Love the video and the lessons on florida chicken history! What kind of chickens run the keys?
Congratulations nice farm 😄😄😄
Definitely worth the wait on the new camera! Awesome to see how the other birds are doing it'll be interesting to see how those dark hens cross in with your current game fowl.
There is a little known kind of feral chicken from Georgia called the Carolina bantam. It was created through natural selection under the supervision of a prominent chicken biologist in the middle of last century who first let various random bantams breed freely in a barnyard then he turned them loose in a river bottom in Georgia. They’ve adapted and live as a wild species. They are often used in university studies but aren’t widely well known beyond the poultry academic community. Through natural selection, they became black with flecks of brown. Apparently that camouflaged them better than other colors for Eastern hardwoods. Perhaps they blend into the shadows better. I am curious to see if larger chickens like these would also be so selected.
@@Florida_Bullfrog this is basically what I plan on doing with ameraucana hens and black sumatra roosters on my property. Its in Georgia as well. mainly for pest control because I don't like chemicals. itll be interesting to see if mine turn out similarly given what im using to make them and the similar environments they'll be in. It'll also be interesting to see how they adapt to the 3 properties i plan to spread them amongst once(if) they get start populating well.
One is a relative that lives directly on the river theres alot of underbrushless wooded flat areas, with extremely steep hills covered in bushes and kudzu.
The 2nd is a friends. a more wooded hilly area with several large crevasses and lots of underbrush on it. About an hour from the river
The 3rd is fairly wooded with large oaks and magnolia trees and scrub areas with large patches of open grass and clay. About 30 minutes from both the other two
Just placed an order for 30 ameraucana and 3 sumatra chicks. I'll spread them to friends and family if they do well. also have a few coworkers who were interested in them when I brought up the idea at work one day.
My brother has some Sumatras he’s experimenting with.
@@igotboredfkit
Did your plan work? I’m very interested to see if this worked, thanks😁
@@charliew1758 the ameraucanas are doing well so far but the sumatras didn't do well and died in the brooder. I have some mystic onyx chickens but I think I'm gonna check my local game farm and see if they have any game roosters that match the genetics I want.
Good video. I am in process right now with making a wild/homestead chicken mix of my own.
Beautiful variety
nice set up...
man, i really like these vids
I know all there is to take care a chicken. Sometimes I try not to cross breed any chicken because sometimes they look good when they reach adult size. You got the the type chickens that I like, which are game chicken
I love them
I am in process of doing the same thing in Oklahoma
I am fascinated with the concept of Cracker gamefowl. Do they tend to lay in nest boxes, or is it like an Easter egg hunt every time you collect eggs? Thanks for making this video. Very well done.
Just hatched 10/14 from your shipped eggs. Awesome hatch rate! Hope they will do well for me.
Update*......unfortunately a fox got them all 😢
How did the fox get them?
@@Florida_Bullfrog had them in an avairy. Btw, I live in Wisconsin.....so no way they'll survive our winter free ranged. Anyway, that damn fox dug under the what I thought was secure enough(but wasn't)fence one night and took them all out.
awesome!
Thanks for sharing this it was very interesting . I read everything on any chicken that I find. Oh I just want to make one other comment. I haven't heard the word Florida cracker
Since I was a little girl I heard the word Florida cracker I was born in Miami Florida but I'm in North Carolina original home of my family my grandpa used to call me a Florida cracker I never really understand what it meant. Add chicken video with interest
Love the practical, historically relevant content!! However I don't think I'm alone in asking; is there any way you could do a video on your day-to-day or routine with these chickens? How many eggs? How much time it takes to collect? How you get them in for the night? Maybe even a video on the amount of meat from one of the roosters, and maybe you cooking it up? I'm sure many of us would LOVE a video that goes into detail about that! Thanks! Excited for the liege roosters!!!
Also! If you could maybe take 10 or so eggs and weigh them so people can get an idea of the real size of the eggs. I think a lot of us are really just looking for as much data as we can get, this is some truly special content. Can't say enough how excited I am to see the liege roosters mixed in!!!
I can do that. The Liege I have are all hens. My plan is to breed Number 1 to then.
@@Florida_Bullfrog Yeah I mean i'm excited to see the roosters in 6 months to a year. Good stuff, thanks!
I got three more videos to post then I’ll shoot and edit the daily routine video.
@@Florida_Bullfrog Looking forward to it
Didn’t know your flock came from citrus county ! Being from Homosassa and watching your videos !!!
Hey bub. Our family has run cattle in lower central Florida since 1878. Check out pictures from Carlton Ward. Great video, great birds
I'm always happy to see a new video from you. Your chicken project is awesome. Do you have problems with number one being aggressive towards people? Do you gather enough eggs every weeks to meet your needs?
No, Number 1 is completely human friendly as is his father Hei Hei. Of the 4 Cracker roosters I started with, 3 were human aggressive and only Hei Hei was friendly. So I built the flock mostly off of him. Right now a flock of 30 Cracker hens is giving me 6-9 eggs a day, of those eggs that are laid in nest boxes. It is still early in the season and as we go further into spring more and more hens will start laying. They lay heavy until they lay about a dozen to twenty eggs then they go broody. I have one that is broody now I am trying to break.
Good information! Great video! I have a few hens and a rooster. The rooster is a silver Delaware and he's mean. Ive tried to break him from being aggressive but I guess he's bound for a heat treatment lol. Im thinking of putting hobbles on him.
I’m well convinced that human aggressive roosters can’t be permanently broken of it.
@@Florida_Bullfrog yea, the heat treatment is the only way I reckon, mighty tasty too I might add, lol. Stay safe brother!
If you ever sell some of your roosters and hens I’d be interested in starting a small flock.
I got mine from Meyer Hatchery via mail
@@pag8591 I can’t find the breed on meyer?
They look like green legged partridge chickens from Poland. Also good survival chicken breed.
Wow. Your chickens are gorgeous and your free range ideas are spot on for survival.
I just harvested four free range Australorp roosters yesterday. I caught the first two pretty easily, but the other two were very skittish. My twelve year old son and I broke out our pellet rifles and went hunting. It was his first time hunting anything and he was so proud of his kill. He kept telling me how much fun he had so I got to thinking of raising a totally independent flock we could hunt at will.
A youtube search led me right to you.
A question I have is do you think the Liege will do good with young children ages 5-12? I also have some dogs, cats, turkeys, chickens, and pigs.
You talking about liege fighters?
Your rooster are pretty.
I love your channel I love to see you hunt deer and hogs with your air rifles
Thats funny. Ive created the same breed just by chance.
They are so broody. They love dissappearing for 3 weeks and showing back up with 10 chicks at a time
I'm intrigued and entertained by these "survivor chicken project" videos. keep up the good work mate.
I have an update video on my hybrid chicks that I'm going to upload in the next day or two.
I was born and raised in Baker Florida my mom was born and raised in Pensacola Florida her dad was born and raised in Pensacola Florida so I'm at least a third generation Floridian
Fine animals, this is the type of environment you find throughout Venezuelan lowlands and most people have opted to ditch these exact varieties you put here for these derelict 50's hyper intensive production systems... of course, they struggled during the most severe stage of the crisis becase it's a high resource-demanding system.
Cool 👍👍👍
Hi sir watching from philippines
Excellent on video clarity, have you been having good wild pig numbers on your property?
Not the first hog ever on my farm.
Your Crackers look like Old English Game Bantams, I have some
How many do you have. A good view and can you post a video when they go to roost
Would these cross well with an Egyptian fayoumi? That's basically the Egyptian version of one of these. They have junglefowl in them too, but from way further back.
Mongoo nice blue red partridge colors
Wow! What a collection 😍Sir ! Where did you get these beautiful red jungle fowl rooster and hen? How can i get a pair of them in India (Asia)
Yo those asil and american game are beautiful i had a rajahmurgh Asil gamebird he was amazing he was my first rooster ever i made sum half asil half sweater hens and man are those birds amazing i put em up against straight sweater stags and he keeps up with them he even gets on top of them they are some great birds I'd love to get sum asil eggs to hatch out if there's any chance you ship to puerto rico
I don't use em to fight but i let all my roosters stretch their legs from time to time they all penned up most of the time but every so often i have an acre of land so i just open all the cages and let em spar for the hens i of course intervene in case anything get too rough but i let em throw kicks at each other for a bit then i pen em up again but i also have a full time game stag out with my hens but if i had an asil stag I'd probably keep him out i love their tempermanrs
Have you done any videos about bulldogs and Southern farms? There is a long-standing tradition in the Deep South that a homestead have a very large bulldog as its main farm dog. There is a great video about what's called a White English Bulldog (not to be confused wth the show dog) that a man named Hoffman had growing up. i have been trying to tract down the origins of these Southern bulldogs for a while. Some sources say they are derived from the Spanish alano (a bullfighting dog that was depicted by de Goya). Others say that they were the banddogges and bulldogs of the English cavaliers who came to the South after losing the English Civil War (and are the main origin for the American Southern culture as we understand it). A friend of mine had a White English bulldog of the type I'm talking about, and that dog was the absolute best farm dog you could imagine. It would herd stock with very little training. Took direction about leaving chickens alone. From what I have read, the Johson and Scott American bulldogs derive from this animal, but those have a little bit of pit bull them. Pit bulls were Yankee dogs that were brought by the Irish immigrants to Boston and New York for pit fighting, but these dogs have all wound up conflated together, in part because they have crossed the farm bulldogs with the fighting dogs over the years. To me, those farm bulldogs are as emblematic of the South as just about anything.
I haven’t seen a White English in about a decade. I have a composite photo of my wife with hers growing up and then her with my White English when we were dating. I’ll try to post it over in my community feed.
@Scottie Westfall I just posted a pic of a couple of White English in my community feed.
How do Florida Cracker Gamefowl handle hawks?? We have so many hawks. Also, Raccoons and foxes and coyotes.
I like those asils but keep them separately because they only hit the head and neck and they will kill your cracker birds. Those hens have redquill in them. Nice to see a fellow breeder.
Do your cracker roosters crow a lot? I don't really hear them in your videos. Also do they crow at the crack of dawn? Must be a quiet breed
Hey buddy. I’ve been watching your channel for a long time. Just thought I’d reach out to you and see if you would like to join us this Saturday in Clermont for some fun shooting. We have a Airgun club here called Central Florida Airgunners. Will be meeting at 9o’clock on Saturday.
Hi thanks I appreciate the information...now free range how do they do with other predators like racoons or coyotes? I like the idea of that black breed killing hawks and seen Roosters of other breeds that are protective of their hens do that too ...I want to free range but also breed for eggs and meat...and would like to hear your viewpoint on that too ...thanks 👍
I never lose any to coons and only layer breeds to coyotes.
Bullfrog. I am guessing you have a nice garden and I was wondering if those chickens tear up the garden. Great channel.
Yes and no as to whether they’ll tear up a garden. Some vegetables they’ll decimate. Others they ignore. So I plant the stuff they don’t like or eat slower than it grows out in the open, and I plant the more vulnerable crops in narrow planters or beds behind 5 foot fence. They can fly over the fence but don’t like to as they don’t like to get down in narrow places that trap them.
@@Florida_Bullfrog Can you give some idea which plants they go after in your garden. I am also in North Florida around the Jacksonville area.
@@johnpollard744 Tomatoes, not the vines but the fruit right before it turns red. Sometimes pumpkins but its more the guineas that split them open, the chickens might leave them alone if it wasn’t for the guineas. Legumes like peas or beans, the whole plant. But then sometimes they’ll ignore beans or peas for months, then eat them all in a day.
I wish you still sold on Ebay.
Would love to get some fertilized batum eggs
How rare are these cracker birds? I could almost swear ive seen wild chickens in florida and they look exactly like those! They all look the same hens and Cockerels. The chicks were chocolate and dark colored. Cool!
I wonder if they're shotgun chickens are drag chickens
I can't find the cracker chicken hatching eggs on the ebay link, are these still for sale?
It' like forest wild chicken. Both rooster and hens..
They sure look like Blueface gamefowl. I sure wonder if they're Billy Ruble gamefowl.
I’m near Marianna Florida. I am on my family’s homestead. I’d love to get some breed stock from you. Where are you located
Where in North Florida? I am in Macclenny.
How do I find your eggs for the American Game Bantams on eBay?
These birds look like wild chicken aka red jungle fowl. Were these bred from domesticated chicken or red jungle fowl?
Any knowledge about liege fighters?
Looks like a super rooster to me but my knowledge is minimal
I have 2 pure Liege hens and half Liege half aseel rooster. My brother breeds pure Liege. What we have found is that they are highly inbred and a bit fragile for that reason. Egg fertility is poor. We have found that they outcross excellently and their traits tend to dominate on hybrids. I am aware of two different local people I trust who verify their Liege roosters each killed a hawk. Because the importer for Liege is in north Florida quite a few farms have them around.
Those asils will kill a hawk I have a spurred hen that had a brood of chicks and she whipped a chicken hawk in my front yard killed it in a heart beat saved every chick I breed cobra asils and I also cross them with American game birds I love the cross but I also love the pure asils one of my favorite birds I own
When will there be more chickens to buy? I’ve been planning to to make my own breed of chicken for my homestead and you’ve already done it so if I can buy some from you that’ll give me chickens till I can get my breed figured out
Probably a while. I was thinking I might offer some in the summer but my hens keep going broody.
I need a pair or trio. Do you ship to Oregon?
Is there a recommended acreage to free range poultry like this and do you have any advice for someone in a slightly colder climate like Kentucky
Go with full size American gamefowl. Appalachia used to be full of free range American game chickens back when cockfighting was legal across most states. I believe a robust flock of 20 hens and a brood cock can be supported on 2-3 acres of mixed habitat. Some woods, an open field or lawn growing like a meadow, an overgrown fenceline, ect. Chickens are edge animals like whitetail deer are. They like the transition zones between habitats. They need cover from above, leaf litter, grass and weeds, bugs, and water.
Will you have any Blue AGB and FC gamefowl for sale this year?
I should. The FCs are subject to Number 1 healing properly. If something happens to him I can send for his father Hei Hei. I also have some of N1's sons running around but it will be a while before they're old enough to breed. The AGBs lay and breed at astonishing levels for what they are.
Also, an 8lb rooster will take four times longer to cook than 4 roosters that weigh 2lb.
I have been going over a few of your videos. Do you sale the wild jungle fowl. I’m really interested if you don’t mind please let me know. Thank you.
I sell the hatching eggs, but please see my most recent videos. My brood cock is seriously wounded and recovering. I'll have to test his fertility before I offer any off of him.
where are you and how much is a crackle game bird you said you are selling
Those chicken looks like darag chicken of the Philippines...
hens like cream legbar chicken
They look like Welsummers
Can i get this cracker birds or their fertile eggs delivered to Nigeria? Thanks
How much smaller than American game?
Hello friend, do you still have some of your craker gamefowl for sale? I would like to buy if you sell them?
Philip Xiong
What do you feed
Can you suggest a good survival chicken for New England?
If you can find a real Rhode Island Red, and I do mean a real one off a free range farm that comes from a flock that's been there for generations, that would be a good survivor for you. My great great aunt and uncle raised old fashioned Rhode Island Reds on their farm in central Florida and they were good survivors. The hatchery Rhode Island Reds haven't had to survive in a long time..
Howdy neighbor,
Do you know when you’ll be back in stock for the cracker stock?
Your brothers Assel link would not work to eBay.
My brother quit selling the aseel crosses. They came out well but he lost his aseel brood cock. He’s breeding pure Liege now. I may have some Cracker eggs in February or March. They are laying now but I’m keeping the eggs for myself. This is the first time I’ve made sure all breeding is done by Number 1 alone and the chicks look excellent so far.
Great news. I’ll be on the look out around those time frames.Looking forward to adding them to my flock. I’m a Alva local so I’m not to far. I‘m trialing some strawberry plants that I grew From and kept the survival crop. They have withstood our 2 season I’ll have to send ya some.
Tell me more about roosters it will kill hawks
That’s some of the original fighting chickens probably
Probably. Perhaps very old stock. If you ever read old publications about gamefowl in the late 1800s or early 1900s, many times roosters didn't weigh more than 4lbs and 3lb birds were common. Gamefowl today often run at least a pound heavier.
Well now I'm interested in buying. Do you have a site?
I sell on Ebay under the same name as my channel but I haven't offered any this year, except for some of my American game bantams. I traded half the Cracker flock for a cow last year so I'm rebuilding the flock and trying to double or triple it in size for next year.
Sir, it sounds like you have an over-abundance of roosters. Would you consider selling them to your fellow Floridians?
Daily sit hen 21 days
Cracker imo isnt Racist.
It started as i understand as the sound of the Whip used in Cattle business. Not by color till later, then used to describe a Select Southern heritage. I'm just North/South Country, northern born, military Veteran, and now southern.. I dislike city living, I was close enough to a City in the Army. I dont like all the Hustle and Bustle, Crowds, and noise. I like the Country. .an I like a Yard. My in laws have Cattle, and I help with the Cattle, and Hay fields. I been thinking about getting some chickens.. my wife used to have pigs in FFA. This video might make me speed up the process of getting chickens, only draw back is we have a Dog, a Kinda Big Dog that may attack them.. so I have to ready the Yard and Section them off.
Itu ayam hutan nya sudah di ternakkan ya?