{"id":15,"date":"2012-10-16T20:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-06-14T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:56:47","slug":"game-fowl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Gamefowl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stilts<\/p><\/div>\n

Appleworm\u2122 Orchard\u2019s signature project is the repurposing of traditional American gamecocks as \u2014 don\u2019t laugh \u2014 guard chickens.\u00a0 As every poultry-keeping Yankee knows, our region\u2019s predators eat more chicken during our long summer days than the backyard farmer eats all year.\u00a0 Enter the American gamecock.\u00a0 Not only are these roosters magnificently beautiful, they are also alert and feisty protectors of their flocks: Hens left in a gamecock\u2019s daytime care have better odds of survival on New England\u2019s free range.\u00a0 Moreover, the breeds we work with direct their aggression at competitors and predators; to humans they maintain surprisingly equable dispositions.\u00a0 As Appleworm\u2122 cares for these gamefowl, we will seek to maintain these breeds\u2019 fortunate combination of striking beauty, ferocity toward predators, and docility toward humans.<\/p>\n

This experiment began in 2012, when Appleworm\u2122 stumbled upon the opportunity to buy a small flock of unrelated Pumpkin Hulseys from Greenfire Farms. Greenfire had acquired these birds\u2014mostly from Larry Carter’s line\u2014in late 2011 and used them to replace the broodfowl they had acquired in 2008, when they started breeding Hulseys. We fell in love with these birds and, over the following years, bought scores of other gamebirds of various breeds and lines and also bred many more in search of superior gamecocks with which to build our own flocks. We have recently retrenched and now breed just one type, the Pumpkin Hulsey, but do maintain several lines with distinct traits. For pictures of each line\u2019s progenitors, please click on these links:<\/p>\n

Homer<\/a><\/p>\n

Stilts<\/a><\/p>\n

Narcissus (a.k.a. Pretty Boy)<\/a><\/p>\n

Please understand that we do not fight our fowl and will not sell to customers who desire to pit them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Appleworm\u2122 Orchard\u2019s signature project is the repurposing of traditional American gamecocks as \u2014 don\u2019t laugh \u2014 guard chickens.\u00a0 As every poultry-keeping Yankee knows, our region\u2019s predators eat more chicken during our long summer days than the backyard farmer eats all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/2609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}