Green Egger Naked Neck Thread

[aoxa]

That's neat. I've actually seen hens lay eggs before but never have videoed it.

I think the reason she lays a blue egg though is beause her mother (if she was a blue egg layer) mated with a leghorn rooster which came from a white egg.

Well all the hens before her were green egg layers. The father would have been a white egg line.

That's as far as I know.. I'm pretty sure that's the only colour he was collecting from them.. Could be wrong. I know the ones I got from him before he bred them to the leghorn only laid green eggs.

 

[draye]

Oh I see now.
Anyway nice blue egg.

 

[Kev]

I wouldn't call them perfect. They are a light sky blue. Not pastel blue like my Ameraucanas. But they are blue

Lucky I think? I'm pretty sure the mothers all laid a green egg too. Not sure how two of them ended up laying blue?? It's confusing, sure. I did take a video of the egg coming out of her, so no one can tell me there is no way she lays a blue egg! ha

Glad someone else knows what I'm talking about! Never got white eggs or even exceptionally light tan eggs either.

The usual wisdom is that blue eggers are result of the O gene combined with white.. green being O with variously tinted eggshells. Sure would like to know how the blue eggs happen when white egger hens are lacking.

Don;t get me wrong anyone, it is right to normally expect green eggs out of blue mixed with tan/brown eggers..

great video

 

[Kassaundra]

I don't think any of my green egg genetics survived the massacre last year. Not all of this years pullets are laying, but all that are lay some form of tan. If / when I try to add green / blue back in it would be from hatching eggs of already nn colored layers. I don't want to add the non nn back into the flock and dilute the amount of nearly clean necks again.

 

[aoxa]

I don't think any of my green egg genetics survived the massacre last year. Not all of this years pullets are laying, but all that are lay some form of tan. If / when I try to add green / blue back in it would be from hatching eggs of already nn colored layers. I don't want to add the non nn back into the flock and dilute the amount of nearly clean necks again.

If you go with pea combs, it reduces the bowtie. I think Kev told me that.. My white hens gave off completely naked chicks. I didn't keep any of them. Was so sick of seeing white chicks :/


Should have kept this one I know.

 

[draye]

I noticed that in some of my current ones.

It even reduced the feathering on the breast of one of the cockerals. I think that one I might keep for a breeding rooster.

 

[nicalandia]

If you go with pea combs, it reduces the bowtie. I think Kev told me that.. My white hens gave off completely naked chicks. I didn't keep any of them. Was so sick of seeing white chicks :/


Should have kept this one I know.

looks like my Buff Cochin Naked neck chick

 

[aoxa]

looks like my Buff Cochin Naked neck chick

What does that chick look like now? So cute!

 

[donrae]

Not that I can even follow through with my current projects right now, but just posting cause I'm intrigued by the genetics here and want to follow along.

 

[draye]

I have this rooster:

He is a full brother to this pullet:

He is in with three of my NN pullets. I think only one is laying at all right now. Anyway he is out of a green egg and has a pea comb. I'm hoping to get some Green Egger Naked Necks (GENN) out of him. I think he is pretty and am not going to hang onto him very long because he is kin to a lot of my hens plus he is not naked necked. Going to try to keep a naked necked one out of the current batch. Just trying to get a few more before he goes.