BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[bluejean55girl]

You have any eggs that you can set that are by him? Thank goodness for a nice backup son already.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Desert chic, sorry to hear, it's unfortunate about your rooster. Yeah chickens can certainly do a lot of damage to each other. He was a handsome dude, I can see the resemblance in the son

 

[DesertChic]

I'm so sorry to hear that.

And even more of a bummer, I lost my absolute favorite hen, Gretel, to heat stroke while we were out to dinner with family. It's been a rough chicken day.

 

[elevatedruby]

i plan on doing a breeding group of rir and br to make first gen black stars. i cant wait to see what breeds you combine, I am a newbie to breeding so i will definetliy follow this

 

[Kev]

And even more of a bummer, I lost my absolute favorite hen, Gretel, to heat stroke while we were out to dinner with family. It's been a rough chicken day.

 

[hellbender]

And even more of a bummer, I lost my absolute favorite hen, Gretel, to heat stroke while we were out to dinner with family. It's been a rough chicken day.

If I lived in a spot like yours, I wouldn't have any breed but naked necks. sorry.

 

[hellbender]

I'm glad dad doesn't show any interest in seeing anything on BYC, specifically this thread. I don't care if it self-destructs but seeing it dead would further depress the old man. I don't have time to mess with it or I would try to breath new life into it. Again, it's just not worth it to me. Threads come and go and this one would have gone a long time ago if dad hadn't constantly willed life into it.

I'm on my way to Pa. this week for Muscovy duckings. That has Ariel so excited she wants to go along but she's needed at home. I'll be home for evening chores because I'll be leaving very early. These folks won't ship sucks to this part of WV...perhaps no part of the state due to postal irregularities I think. If not for Ariel, I wouldn't bother.

J.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Oh, I'm so sorry. Was she a Biel mix? (I know you weren't sure of their heat hardiness...)

My Naked Necks have certainly done better in the heat - but interestingly, the smaller Cream Legbars (fully feathered) seem to do almost equally well - some days, maybe even better. I'm wondering if it is the body size thing. (Though my NNs aren't THAT big.) My German New Hampshires are doing well so far, and I know other folks have some other fully feathered chickens that do well. Besides the simplistic "number of feathers" thing, what sorts of things go into a breed being heat hardy, structurally (or do we know)?

Gotta say, some folks are having temps now that would kill any bird, Naked Neck or not, so I'm not sure that replacing all our chickens with NNs would solve the problem (no that they aren't great).

- Ant Farm

 

[lpatelski]

And even more of a bummer, I lost my absolute favorite hen, Gretel, to heat stroke while we were out to dinner with family. It's been a rough chicken day.

I'm feeling a little bummed today. I had to cull one of my favorite roosters, Q. He foolishly decided to fight my dominant rooster, Copper, over some girls and he lost...big time. In fact, he lost one of his eyes in the process. So, instead of breeding him a few more times to take advantage of his extraordinary comb, he's now in my freezer. Thankfully he did give me a really nice son, so his genetics will live on, but it's not quite the same.

Q strikes a pose. He was the only bird I ever had who loved being photographed.


Quincy, Q's son:

I am truely sorry to hear of your loss.

It is so hard going to the coop everyday and planning your next generations only to find a nearly dead or dead bird.
While I had guests in May I was not monitoring my birds every day for signs of illness like i usually do (Stand and stare at groups of birds for 5 minutes). I just happened to pick up one of my favorite hopefuls and noticed he was lighter than he should be. Then I felt the rattle in his chest. He had no other outward signs, I isolated him immediately. He died 3 hours later.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

@DesertChic that's sad, you are having a run of bad luck with your chickens lately

such a pretty hen too . Perhaps a harder feathered breed , in addition to one with a giant comb (Minorca?) could be crossed into your naked necks, so that they have less feathering and the ones they do have have very little down?
In my climate, I need a breed that will tolerate some hot weather as well as cold. It's easy to deal with cold by having the pea comb, but they are still hot in the summertime some days. So my solution is Buckeye/Dark cornish cross. But I'm primarily after eggs, so I've got some production red sex link in the mix too.