Southeast Asian Jungle Fowl

Along with the gray jungle fowl of the southern asian area now part of india the red jungle fowl provided most of the genes.

Southeast asian jungle fowl.

With preservation as the main. They suggest the lineage that became the modern chicken branched off from the jungle fowl between 12 800 and 6200 years ago with domestication occurring sometime after the lineages split. They suggest the lineage that became the. The grey junglefowl sri lankan junglefowl and green junglefowl have also contributed genetic materials to the gene pool of the chicken.

We specialize in near pure and hybridized red jungle fowls from southeast asia. These are large birds with colourful plumage in males but are nevertheless difficult to see in the dense vegetation they inhabit. The red junglefowl gallus gallus is a tropical bird in the family phasianidae it ranges across much of southeast asia and parts of south asia red junglefowl are the primary ancestor of the domestic chicken gallus gallus domesticus. A south asian contribution.

Sonneratii that occurred probably about 8 000 years ago. The new dna data link domesticated chickens most closely to the southeast asian subspecies g. The history of chickens gallus domesticus is still a bit of a puzzle scholars agree that they were first domesticated from a wild form called red junglefowl gallus gallus a bird that still runs wild in most of southeast asia most likely hybridized with the gray junglefowl g. A jungle fowl native to the indian subcontinent may have interbred with the chicken after its initial do mestication in southeast asia the team says.

A subspecies of red jungle fowl gallus gallus spadiceus found in northern southeast asia likely led to the first domesticated chickens. 0 1000 km g. Spadiceus nepal india malaysia myanmar. The red jungle fowl is held by most experts to be the leading progenitor of you guessed it the modern chicken.

Fancy fowl feature page 2 we are a small hobby breeder of red junglefowls located in the central valley of california. These are pure red junglefowls from southeast asia specifically from the borders of laos and thailand. The new dna data link domesticated chickens most closely to the southeast asian subspecies g.