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Ahhhhhh. He's very handsome. Will you be selling any eggs. Its too far away for me but I'm sure lots of NN lovers will want some.

Well my experience would sure support what you've just said. Looks like i need to find a a homozygous naked neck rooster if i want naked neck babies. Thanks IceAngel

I have a naked neck rooster and 7 naked neck hens. They are not pure naked necks. I imagine they have been crossed with whomever many a time. I only have NNs, no other chickens. I was graced with 4 chicks this past year. Only one of them has a naked neck! I thought NN was the dominant gene so...

I'm new to all of this ie chickens, raising chicks, breeding, etc. I managed to get 4 chicks in my first year. Not a great outcome from 4 broody sessions, but hey, live and learn. 3 of the chicks look normal ie no naked necks, and one is a naked neck. Now, I live in Spain and my spanish isn't...

Hey, not so good at the technology, but here's a picture my husband took.

OMG ! I am soo happy I found this thread. I thought Naked Necks were unpopular in the US. Here in Spain they are very popular with the older country folk. They seem to like my roo, especially and twice I have been asked for fertile eggs. I love my Naked Necks ! I have a hen sitting on 6 eggs...

Thanks gus2upp, I wanted to hear from desert folk ! So lack of humidity isn't an issue...that's excellent news. I'll stop worrying about it then.

I'm hoping someone out there knows what I am going on about !! I have a very broody hen. She is now sitting on 9 eggs and being very good about,... so far...well it is only day 2 ! Anyway we live in a very very dry part of the world. There are some excellent advantages to this, for example, our...

Thanks everybody for your support. I guess its gonna be all right with my broody. We've managed to design an isolation cage, so we put her in there with no bedding. I kept her in there for about 18 hours. Once I let her out she went back to sitting, but I gently coaxed her out, only twice, and...

Anyone got some advice on molting in spring ? I am new to this game. My first batch of chicks ever = 8 naked neck girls and 1 boy delivered as month old chicks in August last year. I was wanting to have a go at breeding, but all but two of my girls are molting really heavily. One of the ones...

Extremely helpful advice. I have 8 naked neck hens and one rooster. One hen is literally pulling feathers out of the other girls and relentlessly picking at a hen wounded by the rooster's spur. They are all in molt which according to the article, doesn't help. Thank you !!

Hey MandalaMama, I've mixed Quaker type rolled oats in the feed too. I was worried that they were missing out on all the lovely friendly bacteria etc in the liquid. I have noticed however that they were drinking the ferment liquid from the feed trough. Now that they seem to prefer the probiotic...

Thanks for that pdirt. Yeh, I know that if you leave it longer the friendly bacteria have more time to work. I don't have the space for another 5 gallon bucket, but perhaps once the frosts are over I can find somewhere sheltered outside. I was/am so pleased at my chickens production and health...

Hi All, I wanted to share what I figure is a huge success with using EMs to soak and ferment my whole grains. EMs are Effective Microorganisms - a probiotic starter culture. After reading (in Harvey Ussery's book) that cracked grains are only at their best for up to 45 days and then start to go...

Good point bobbi-j ! I got myself an All American a few years back..... not so easy to get a hold of in Europe ! And canning jars are almost as difficult. But I got them for the chickens and I'm guessing a tough old bird would improve with some canning, wouldn't it ? Although, I did an...

Hey LipsChicks! I am willing to try anything! It might work. Thanks for your advice.

Hey ChickenLegs13 !!! I don't know whether to laugh or cry ! What you have described is exactly what I am afraid of. But misery loves company and it is wonderful to hear that this is a common problem.

Yup, bobbi-j, its going to turn out like that anyway really because we don't have a freezer so we'll have to cull and eat one at a time. And it took us one week to eat all of the first one. Yum ! Also every time a roo is culled it changes the dynamic of the group, so although I am preparing...