Red Pile Chickens

What type of corns are you looking to get Chris? Any thing in particular?

Nothing really in particular except that I would like to find a person with 5 sub-adults for sale. Preferably a morph male and four females het for that morph, but if it was in my price range i'd love to have some morph females. I am about to start a job at UPS and once that gets going, basically anything will be in the pricerange. Well except herps like BP morphs and such, plus I wouldn't be willing to spend that much if I could at this point in my life.

Chris, Strombergs' calls them red pyle modern game chickens. You might get different search results if you use the other spelling.

I tried that one, guess I wasn't looking closely or my mind wasn't open to the fact that it wasn't the name of the breed.

My county is notorious for its chicken breeding, but that would be tyson chickens. I've been working in chicken houses all summer and I know basically all I'd need to know. I am interested in what some internet caresheets on them might have to say that I may not know.

The correct spelling IS Red Pyle. And yes, they are considered game birds. They are neat little birds, I raised them for a few years awhile back, til the market totally fell out of them, lol. I'd be glad to help if you have any specific questions on them.

I'll have to look back in some old photos and see if I have any pics left of the chicks right after hatching....I set them next to a DIME for size comparison.

Thanks. Will it increase the egg production and health if I get them some oyster shells? If there is anything crititcal that you think I might not know, then please feel free to point it out.

I appreciate the help everyone.

I don't know if giving them the oyster grit necessarily will INCREASE egg production....they are pretty prolific layers anyway....but it will keep it from decreasing from a lack of calcium, and it will ensure that the eggs have a solid shell. They aren't "year round" layers like production chickens are, but they seem to lay quite steadily through the normal laying season, from spring into mid-summer, at least.

I have all of my chickens eating a diet of cracked corn, supplemented with either the granular layer's mash or the wild game (pheasant) feed during the laying season to keep them in good shape....even the roosters need it since they spend most of their time chasing the hens around they yard and can actually get pretty thin themselves. I also keep a fine cherrystone grit available at all times, and also give them the oystershell free-choice during the laying season.

Contrary to what people think looking at these tiny birds, they are a very hardy breed, and don't really need a lot of "special" care as opposed to a plain old chicken. The roosters do tend to be a bit more ornery towards each other than "regular" chickens.....I always kept mine caged in breeding groups to keep the roosters from fighting, as opposed to my other chickens who have the run of the whole farm, lol....but toward humans, they tend to be very mellow and less flighty than other chickens.....my kids had several "pet Pyles" they would pick up and carry around all the time.


One thing you may notice is, depending on the breeder's preference, some will still "dub" the roosters.....meaning they remove almost all of the comb and the "wattles"when they are young, the original purpose of that being one less thing for other roosters to latch on to in the cockfighting ring, and the tradition kind of stuck even now when most people no longer raise them for such an awful purpose (kind of like ear cropping on pit bulls, for example....eeesch). I kept all of mine natural, and think they looked beautiful with the big combs, however they did tend to freeze the tips in a particularly cold winter here in Iowa if they didn't have heat lamps.

If you like the Red Pyles, you would also really enjoy the Silver Duckwing old english game birds. They are very similar, but the colors on the roosters are quite striking.

I got a hen with some chicks a few days ago, how long does the hen need to be kept with the chicks? I would like to go ahead and move her in with my rooster.

Chickens can eat on their own from the day they hatch. I mail oreder eggs and hatch them in my incubator all the time, no mama chicken here.

You will have to keep the babies caged and give them a warming light to keep warm for about a week or two depending on how warm it is outside. Hey post some pictures of your pyles.