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Compost King
Free Ranging
My Red Rangers are in Quarantine, not so much for anything contagious as much as one can not handle a rooster right now and the 2 of them will not get along with any other hens. They are such bullies and they end up hurting other chickens due to their size.
So I figured I would take the time to take pictures of their children and even grand children.
Here is one of the Naked Neck X Red Rangers in a rabbit cage in the final destination coop, this is where the Majority of my chickens care kept (the coop not the cage) Some do not like leaving the Juvenile Coop for the adult coop and just feed and roost in the Juvenile coop. I wouldn't care where they wanted to stay but the older birds will starve off younger birds but not letting them feed. The ones that keep going back to the Juvenile Coop get put in the rabbit cage for 3 or more days (if temps allow) and this Homes them to the correct coop for their age. Not sure the age on this one but its from the 2nd batch of Naked Neck Red Rangers. I actually produced a lot of this cross and spread them out so I do not get slammed with too many chickens to butcher at once.
This is the last of the Red Ranger Naked Necks, hatched sunday in a huge batch of Ayam Cemanis. These will be the last of them. The Naked Neck will only be breeding with White Meat birds for the next few months.
These are Grand Children of the Red Rangers. or the 2 black ones are. There are also 2 Seramas in with them. 1 is is half Naked Neck and 1/4 Ayam Cemani and 1/4 Red Ranger. Less than half of the batch have black skin and I started segregating them with Seramas when the first one died due to bad social interactions in a crowded juvenile coop during a nasty storm when I was too busy fixing other problems to solve coop social problems. I have one other of these black skinned Naked Necks with a Broody mom. The other black chick is 3/4 Ayam Cemani and 1/4 Red Ranger. He will be replacing the Ayam Cemani I am using for meat breeding if he is indeed a male. Then I will repeat the process of breeding him to Meat Birds. Eventually I want a very large chicken with black meat and then see if I can Stabilize it as a heritage breed. Probably above my may grade but who cares when I just need the manure and everything else i get out of them is to educate myself on chickens. and yes those are books I have under the waterer and feeders. If a book isn't good enough to keep in my personal library I compost them.
Not the best picture but these 2 rarely stand close enough together to get a good portrait. That is a Dorking Hen with her half brother a Dorking X Red Ranger. He was the fast growing and largest of the Dorking X Red Ranger crosses so I kept him for breeding. he also did not inherit the comb defect his father had and neither did she. I am also doing the reverse breeding with the Patriarch Dorking breeding with his daughters. This is the start of me trying to make a Light Dorking (columbian pattern). Over my pay grade but as I said before the only thing i need to do is produce manure so why not experiment and see if I can pull something off?
Naked Neck is all alone! Since he injured a Red Ranger he needs some lone time in his pen. Eventually I will be breeding him to a CX, a slow White broiler and Commercial egg laying White Leghorns. eventually I want to make 2 lines of Naked Necks, one for meat production, one for egg production.
Not the best picture but its the one I took! Mama Dorking with her brood. everyone she hatched out is a meat bird including the Her own Silver Grey Dorkings. This one has been free ranging and she is very aggressive protective mother. even other broody hens fear her. Not bad for a girl who was bottom of the pecking order in every flock she was in before she became a mom.
I haven't been showing her off, the slow white broiler or as I call her the White Ranger. Personality is the complete opposite of the Red Rangers. She is easily pushed around and the bottom of the pecking order. She can be pushed away from the feeder by younger birds. I started spending a lot of time making sure she gets feeder space and she is finally adding size. I had 4 of them but 3 died in that same social situation mess I mention earlier that happened during a long storm... flooding pretty much forced all the free range chickens into a tight space on some were pecked away from food and water. I had 4 birds die, 3 slow white broilers and a black skinned naked neck. I was hoping to get a male to breed with the CX directly but that just wasn't in the game plan I guess, now I am will breed the CX and SLB to the NN, then breed their children with each other. See if that makes a decent table bird.
So I figured I would take the time to take pictures of their children and even grand children.
Here is one of the Naked Neck X Red Rangers in a rabbit cage in the final destination coop, this is where the Majority of my chickens care kept (the coop not the cage) Some do not like leaving the Juvenile Coop for the adult coop and just feed and roost in the Juvenile coop. I wouldn't care where they wanted to stay but the older birds will starve off younger birds but not letting them feed. The ones that keep going back to the Juvenile Coop get put in the rabbit cage for 3 or more days (if temps allow) and this Homes them to the correct coop for their age. Not sure the age on this one but its from the 2nd batch of Naked Neck Red Rangers. I actually produced a lot of this cross and spread them out so I do not get slammed with too many chickens to butcher at once.
This is the last of the Red Ranger Naked Necks, hatched sunday in a huge batch of Ayam Cemanis. These will be the last of them. The Naked Neck will only be breeding with White Meat birds for the next few months.
These are Grand Children of the Red Rangers. or the 2 black ones are. There are also 2 Seramas in with them. 1 is is half Naked Neck and 1/4 Ayam Cemani and 1/4 Red Ranger. Less than half of the batch have black skin and I started segregating them with Seramas when the first one died due to bad social interactions in a crowded juvenile coop during a nasty storm when I was too busy fixing other problems to solve coop social problems. I have one other of these black skinned Naked Necks with a Broody mom. The other black chick is 3/4 Ayam Cemani and 1/4 Red Ranger. He will be replacing the Ayam Cemani I am using for meat breeding if he is indeed a male. Then I will repeat the process of breeding him to Meat Birds. Eventually I want a very large chicken with black meat and then see if I can Stabilize it as a heritage breed. Probably above my may grade but who cares when I just need the manure and everything else i get out of them is to educate myself on chickens. and yes those are books I have under the waterer and feeders. If a book isn't good enough to keep in my personal library I compost them.
Not the best picture but its the one I took! Mama Dorking with her brood. everyone she hatched out is a meat bird including the Her own Silver Grey Dorkings. This one has been free ranging and she is very aggressive protective mother. even other broody hens fear her. Not bad for a girl who was bottom of the pecking order in every flock she was in before she became a mom.
I haven't been showing her off, the slow white broiler or as I call her the White Ranger. Personality is the complete opposite of the Red Rangers. She is easily pushed around and the bottom of the pecking order. She can be pushed away from the feeder by younger birds. I started spending a lot of time making sure she gets feeder space and she is finally adding size. I had 4 of them but 3 died in that same social situation mess I mention earlier that happened during a long storm... flooding pretty much forced all the free range chickens into a tight space on some were pecked away from food and water. I had 4 birds die, 3 slow white broilers and a black skinned naked neck. I was hoping to get a male to breed with the CX directly but that just wasn't in the game plan I guess, now I am will breed the CX and SLB to the NN, then breed their children with each other. See if that makes a decent table bird.
