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That makes them the perfect meat bird, :lau

Here is a chicken from the crossing red ranger thread. It was bred from a hen -- a Red Ranger and Dorking egg hatched by another member that was then crossed with a Naked Neck rooster. It is the silver chicken, a week older than the White Rocks in the photo. About 9 weeks old, it weighed over 3...

Here is a little NN that I am almost positive is male I got from @BlueBaby :drool He is Nn with feathers on the neck, but ~half of the chicks would carry the Naked gene. I am hoping to do what you did with some nice white rock female chicks. This is taken today at 2 weeks old. Check out the...

That was what attracted me to the white rock chicks I got from Ideal. I want to see how large they get, and they are advertised to lay ~200 eggs/year. It would be the hen I might like to have a RR male for next summer. We can not keep roosters, but a young one might last long enough to try & get...

I have a feeling that the professionals would use a better laying hen with a large, meat type male just because some big birds lay so poorly. The cross gives you a lot of vigor just from having the unrelated parents. Using both RR parents might loose some of that hybrid vigor.

Thanks, next time I might have any extras that is what I will do!

True. I ordered a box of 25 from Ideal last week and a very happy new owner just took 9 of them home today. I only asked for what they cost me, now everybody's happy! I just mentioned it on our local state thread, probably should have put them in the buy/sell section here, but I was just...