BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[DesertChic]

No hairs anywhere? What about the heterozygous NN's?

I have never seen a hair on either NN or Nn

Now that you mention it, neither have I. That just adds support to my intention to cross all of my birds with NN.

 

[Kassaundra]

@dfr1973 So sorry about Fred, hope you get a great hatch from his last eggs. Very glad you fixed the problem

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

These naked necks look better and better all the time.

 

[bramblefir]

While everyone is crowing about their Naked Necks, where do you all consider the best source for them?

 

[Kassaundra]

While everyone is crowing about their Naked Necks, where do you all consider the best source for them?

Nava on BYC has really great birds.

 

[Beer can]

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Hellbender recommended Cackle hatchery naked necks as far as size, researching threads, posts, reviews on hatcheries here and other than here, I think he gave some good advice as far as hatchery goes, from everything I have gathered Cackle has the best hatchery naked necks. I ordered 15, the black/red cockerels are the biggest most promising, a couple black pullets have only a couple pin feathers in the necks, plan on keeping the biggest red/black cockerel and all the pullets. The blacks are not clean black. I did end up with two clean white, one cockerel and one pullet, didn't plan on keeping any white's, not at all.....changed my mind, definitely keeping them. I have hooked up with a local source waiting for some cornishX pullets that live, hoping to get a few to add to that project, I'm not much for crosses but dang it would be nice to have some processable cheaper.
I will be looking to acquire some Nava stock of whites if this works out, she's the only one I have found that actually breeds her birds to SOP. I'd like to have both SOP lines and crossed meat line of whites, see what happens with the others. Lol! this morning, had a red naked neck pullet free ranging, only way this could happen, flew a eight foot fence

 

[ejcrist]

Hellbender recommended Cackle hatchery naked necks as far as size, researching threads, posts, reviews on hatcheries here and other than here, I think he gave some good advice as far as hatchery goes, from everything I have gathered Cackle has the best hatchery naked necks. I ordered 15, the black/red cockerels are the biggest most promising, a couple black pullets have only a couple pin feathers in the necks, plan on keeping the biggest red/black cockerel and all the pullets. The blacks are not clean black. I did end up with two clean white, one cockerel and one pullet, didn't plan on keeping any white's, not at all.....changed my mind, definitely keeping them. I have hooked up with a local source waiting for some cornishX pullets that live, hoping to get a few to add to that project, I'm not much for crosses but dang it would be nice to have some processable cheaper.
I will be looking to acquire some Nava stock of whites if this works out, she's the only one I have found that actually breeds her birds to SOP. I'd like to have both SOP lines and crossed meat line of whites, see what happens with the others. Lol! this morning, had a red naked neck pullet free ranging, only way this could happen, flew a eight foot fence

Nava on BYC has really great birds.

While everyone is crowing about their Naked Necks, where do you all consider the best source for them?

I ordered a half dozen from Murray McMurray since I've had good experience with them in the past, but one thing I noticed was all the hatcheries said they didn't breed any specific color and were of mixed coloration. I don't have the SOP in front of me but I thought the NN's in there were supposed to be one color. I'm guessing you'd have to locate a breeder if you wanted birds for both utility and to possibly show. Does anyone know if that's the case or are there hatcheries that have single colors? I wonder why the hatcheries don't have single colors?

One thing I will say is the more I learn about NN's the more interested in them I'm becoming. From a utility perspective there seems to be a lot of advantages to raising them. I'm really looking forward to getting mine in the fall because my curiosity is killing me.

 

[DesertChic]

@lpatelski Today was the 2 week weigh-in and photo session, and these chicks are growing like crazy.

First, the pure Dark Cornish: Weight = 5.78 ounces for a 370% increase since hatch. (I'm thinking pullet right now.)




And now, Blue, the biggest in the group: Weight = 12.31 ounces for a 694% increase since hatch. I'm guessing cockerel.




And Pink: Weight = 11.71 ounces for a gain of 670% since hatch. I'm leaning towards pullet.




And just for comparison, "my" chick, a Bielefelder/White Rock mix: Weight = 6.95 ounces for a gain of 379% since hatch.

 

[Turk Raphael]

Still no pics but I promise...they will come.

For anyone who gives two whoops in hell (one of dad's favorite sayings),I've concluded that I have mostly pullets, speaking of those given to me that were hatched under Angel (half 50x5DCX% and 50% Dark Cornish pullet) from @lpatelski ).

2 pure Dark Cornish ...One cockerel/one pullet
1 three quarter DC.....Cockerel, colored somewhat like pure DC (enormous, all over)
1 '' " " .....Pullet, solid black with dark slate or blue legs,tall but not overly broad-breasted. I really like her to be covered by a Chantecler cockerel.
1 " " " .....Pullets, colored much like pure DC but several white feathers on wings (might disappear). Hefty gals...open for breeding plans.
2 " " "......Pullets, beautiful colors, one white base with large and small black spots, the other, white based with red feathering across the back and
breast....much like the one Linda showed as a keeper in some of her posts. I love them all, I only wish I could have gotten their mother,
Angel and aunt, Jr. Jason is up to his butt or there'bouts with White Chantecler chicks so I know the prospect is real that I might wind up
with them if I play things right. Gonna' get about 5 cockerels from the new batch of Chanteclers too...

All cockerels I have will get to cover some the 'show quality' (and others) Naked Necks. Very high priority!!!!!

Turk EDIT: I am looking for a good scale to weigh birds, from day old to 18 month or more Capon. Any
recommendations please?

 

[dfr1973]

EDIT: I am looking for a good scale to weigh birds, from day old to 18 month or more Capon. Any
recommendations please?

I would (and do) use two scales for weighing out. I have a digital postal scale for when they are small, and a kitchen meat scale (only goes up to 14 pounds though) for when they are over four pounds. I learned way back in high school chemistry class that scales by nature are not as accurate one either end of their range, while being most accurate in the middle of their range.