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is this bird most likly from that cross i am not sure.

Quote: First of all I call this being a butt "well, im sorry but in my book, it don't have feathers on it's neck. it's a naked neck. if you had read other posts you would have seen that we have already come to this conclusion." personaly I dont care what you call your birds I just...

Try crossing them with the purebred cornish. Hunter S.

Quote: If it lays green/blue eggs it isn't a pure necked neck. Hunter S. so what am i supposed to call them? one person says not to say they are turkens and another says don't call it a naked neck. well, im sorry but in my book, it don't have feathers on it's neck. it's a naked neck. if...

If it lays green/blue eggs it isn't a pure necked neck. Hunter S.

They are just setting the pecking order. That is how chickens higher up in the pecking order show thier domanace. It is completly fine. My LB rooster is the calmest that i have. Hunter S.

Most big time breeders dont bring new blood in and they breed daughter to father, mother to son, grand daughter to grandfather,grandson to grandma.nice to uncle, and nephew to aunt. Many breeders do this for years and years without new blood. I do it with my bantam and standards rir. It is...

I think if the pin feathers are the same lenght it is a cockeral and if one side is longer than the other it is a pullet.

Have you hatched any from the hens he is with from another rooster. It could be the hens. Hunter

In your breeding stock some of your pullets should have black ticking in thier back to keep the buff color rich in the offspring. Just don't breed two birds with ticking. You don't want to show the birds with the ticking because they are breeding qualty not SQ. Hunter

Rir have a single comb

My SQ RIR hen finally saterted laying. I am going to save her eggs for hatching and I am ording 25 dibbies from Paul Hardy. Hunter

I will get pics tommorow if she has it. I have had her for months and somtimes she has it. She has not layed any eggs. I cut her beak, treated her for mites, and checked the space between the pubic bones. she had more than four fingers space, and she is not fat are skinny. I think she has a...

but she hasn't laid a single egg scince i got her. It was to dark to tell tonight if she still had it. other than that she is completly healthy

No, because she dosn't always have it