Crossing my Red Ranger Hens.

[Compost King]

I want to cross my White Naked Neck to a White Leghorn and then keep crossing the offspring back to leghorns until I have a flock of Leghorns with Naked Necks. I am guessing if Protein is needed to maintain feathers then more can go towards egg production.

 

[aliciaplus3]

I want to cross my White Naked Neck to a White Leghorn and then keep crossing the offspring back to leghorns until I have a flock of Leghorns with Naked Necks. I am guessing if Protein is needed to maintain feathers then more can go towards egg production.

I am looking for that color but in the jumbo size.... more like white Plymouth rock with necked necks

 

[Compost King]

I am looking for that color but in the jumbo size.... more like white Plymouth rock with necked necks

I am definitely going for that too. But I want to introduce the naked neck gene into my production lines of egg birds. I really believe that less feathers allows for proteins and other nutrients to towards egg or meat production and thus its a very efficient trait for both meat and eggs production

 

[aliciaplus3]

I am definitely going for that too. But I want to introduce the naked neck gene into my production lines of egg birds. I really believe that less feathers allows for proteins and other nutrients to towards egg or meat production and thus its a very efficient trait for both meat and eggs production

Oh dont get me wrong I have several Nn that are more production, even a couple that lay blue eggs

 

[BlueBaby]

@Compost King and @aliciaplus3 You have to love the NN's! They are so versatile for breeding!

 

[aliciaplus3]

@Compost King and @aliciaplus3 You have to love the NN's! They are so versatile for breeding!

I have a couple new partridge colored ones over the last day or so.... this new batch should be fun!

 

[Compost King]

I have a Naked Neck cockerel I am about to process. he has been roosting in a secret location and was very hard to catch. I finally snagged him in my fishing net this morning. due to excessive heat and humidity I haven't been processing them so he is well over my 5 pound mark when I like to process them. I haven't had meat in a while so he is going to taste really good. Its a bit cooler today so after I am done prepping my table and doing the dishes I didn't do last night he will be turned into food.

 

[Compost King]

These are my Dorking x (Dorking x Red Ranger) chicks. The oldest of my 3/4 Dorking 1/4 Red Ranger chicks. I have to breed them to 4 toe birds to see if the next generation has 5 toes. Those with any 4 toe offspring carry the 4 toe recessive gene. The Full black one is a different breed that hatched with them.

 

[BlueBaby]

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These are my Dorking x (Dorking x Red Ranger) chicks. The oldest of my 3/4 Dorking 1/4 Red Ranger chicks. I have to breed them to 4 toe birds to see if the next generation has 5 toes. Those with any 4 toe offspring carry the 4 toe recessive gene. The Full black one is a different breed that hatched with them.

What about with the NN's? They have 4 toes.

 

[Compost King]

The Naked Necks have 4 Toes. Dorkings have 5 toes and that is Dominate. So if a Chicken has 1 four toe gene and 1 five toe gene they will have 5 toes. So far I have not bred a Naked Neck with a 5 toe bird. The Dorking offspring from that generation likely has 75% full Five Toe Genes and 25% with half 4 half 5 all showing 5 toes. I can't explain it well but that's the best I can explain it.