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Dawn feeding of the yard fowl, and then later toward sunset. Many folks over feed their fowl. Yard fowl are active; they forage all daylight hours, while finding water and evading predatory teeth, talon and claw. This is when I observe my fowl and the yard. I consider all the dynamics within and across the farm and forest environment.

After being away two weeks in Europe, I documented a bit of my interactions with this particular stag and his mother. The hen (stag’s dam) is a Roundhead from Delaware, I couldn’t find much else out about her, but saw her while on the road in Pennsylvania and couldn’t let her go. The sire to this stag is an East Coast, American Asil stag, of mostly Reynolds (Atkinson / Desi) blood I obtained fr...

One of my brood pens is a trio of two (Hoy/Sears/Bean) muff hens I bred, full sisters, with a spangle Low (Hoy/Sears) Muff bull stag. They’ve produced some nice chicks. I am hopeful this guy and his brothers and sisters mature.

The best ‘Hoy’ muff stag out of my main muff brood pen. They’re Whitehackle Muff, but from what I can tell no matter what was bred into them over the years, each source I’ve obtained fowl from when it came to this blood, sticks to the term “Hoy”, “Sears”, or “Whitehackle” muff, when describing them. Seems the foundation have been the fowl made well known by Lawman, Hoy, Murphy, Morgan, Gleezen,...

This is not an ideal husbandry situation, but so far it’s working out. The stag will eventually (most likely) not be trusted around his chicks, and that’s how it goes. For now they all seem to be fine in this fly pen. Just sharing my fowl.

I have been trying to establish a quality family of the old ‘New England Muff’ fowl for the last three years. These guys are becoming ever more rare, and I’ve acquired the best I could find and afford. They are promising fowl, this pen includes two of my favorite muff hens I’ve bred from a ‘Texas Hoy Cock’ and a ‘Sears (Hoy) Muff’ hen from Connecticut, bred to a spangled stag from Georgia. The ...

Recently dubbed stag of mine, been wanting to handle him more and calm him down a bit. Anyhow a couple evenings ago, he told me an aerial predator was flying by, I joke it’s their “death from above” call. Sure enough a barred owl slowly went on by on the edge of my yard into the tree line. I have a lot of barred owls at my place, and they do prey on my fowl, but I still love them. So I take the...

One of my yard hens hatched some of my red Asil chicks. Winter hatching is not normal for my hens but the past two winters, my Asil chose to lay and go broody. Since Asil lay so few eggs, I collected from the nest boxes and placed them under one of my favorite yard hens.

Trio of Asil I received from Mr. C. Hanson. He told me about much of their history, and he has been working on these “Scott Valley” Asil for a few years now. Very excited to watch them mature and see what they breed down the road.

My Dom hen, started to crow at the sight/introduction of her grand-daughters.

Brown Red hen (December ‘23)

This is a pair of my Brown Reds. The hen is small but powerful and proved her worth maturing free range from a pullet to a hen along with her 3 sisters. This hen is my favorite from those four.

These are some American Asil, the bloodlines originate from fowl imported from Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan; but various families have been on the East Coast of the US for many years. This clutch has been very athletic and active, as these fowl are a little lighter in weight than my older red Asil fowl.

Gilmore Hatch gamecock

Hatch Gamecock

North Briton Gamefowl (December 2023)

American Asil pair

Hoy Muff Gamefowl pair (December 2023)

Dom Gamefowl (December 2023)

Redquill Muff Gamefowl (December 2023)

Yard Fowl Selection: Day Observation (December 2023)

Yard Fowl Selection: Night Observation (December 2023)

Hoy Muff Gamefowl Pen (12 November, 2023)

Yard Fowl and Selection: Part 3 (13 November, 2023)

Yard Fowl and Selection: Part 2 (October 29, 2023)

Yard Fowl and Selection: Part 1 (October 29, 2023)

Redquill Muff Gamecock (20 September, 2023)

Brown Red Gamecock (14 September, 2023)

Redquill Muff Gamefowl (17 September, 2023)