Quote from: Bullfrog on July 12, 2020, 03:45:47 PMGame type chickens can make it. My ancestors on their farm in rural north Florida kept several hundred fighting chickens in feral conditions that they used for their egg and meat birds. No care was given to them. They just lived wild in the woods like wild turkey. In that era they would have been contending with the usual North American predators plus red wolves and panthers. The game chickens reproduce faster than human and animal predators can take them. Once a month my grandmother would stalk the woods in the remote parts of the farm and harvest 30 or so at a time for the family's monthly chicken meat and it never put a dent in the population. My great grandfather and uncles would collect the stags a couple times of year and then condition them for cock fighting. They'd catch the stags at night on the roost by sticking a long pole under their feet and they'd instinctively step onto the poll off the tree branch they were roosted on. That's the kind of local folk lore I love to collect. You can bet that information will turn up in one of my early Florida cultural programs for the park Thank you!
Game type chickens can make it. My ancestors on their farm in rural north Florida kept several hundred fighting chickens in feral conditions that they used for their egg and meat birds. No care was given to them. They just lived wild in the woods like wild turkey. In that era they would have been contending with the usual North American predators plus red wolves and panthers. The game chickens reproduce faster than human and animal predators can take them. Once a month my grandmother would stalk the woods in the remote parts of the farm and harvest 30 or so at a time for the family's monthly chicken meat and it never put a dent in the population. My great grandfather and uncles would collect the stags a couple times of year and then condition them for cock fighting. They'd catch the stags at night on the roost by sticking a long pole under their feet and they'd instinctively step onto the poll off the tree branch they were roosted on.
. My great grandfather and uncles would collect the stags a couple times of year and then condition them for cock fighting. They'd catch the stags at night on the roost by sticking a long pole under their feet and they'd instinctively step onto the poll off the tree branch they were roosted on.
Quote from: Bullfrog on July 12, 2020, 03:45:47 PM. My great grandfather and uncles would collect the stags a couple times of year and then condition them for cock fighting. They'd catch the stags at night on the roost by sticking a long pole under their feet and they'd instinctively step onto the poll off the tree branch they were roosted on.I am trying to picture how this works. The roost is about 20ft up on a branch. They put pole under the branch and under his feet and the bird will step on to the pole while they are sleeping?
Been near 25 years ago was out in our local woods and came across some FERAL chickens. being in a sporting mood stalked them until able to take a shot at one and harvesting it ... or should say Inspecting Plumage rather scruffy, toe nails that hooked around like a Circus Side show performers.Figured living in a soft forest floor environment the typical scratching done on harder surfaces was not wearing down the toe tails ... kinda freaked me out a bit looking at its feet.
That's the same type Wild chickens we have here,They are everywhere, I don't even see them anymore You can shoot them if they come into private property, but you cannot hunt them in the wild.
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