Getting Naked**pics**

[stephys_fluffybutts]

Lisa, Julie may I ask you where you got your show girls at???
Lisa I have seen one of your birds on Lydia Webbs Website and Julie I have seen your birds on Awsome Silkie Bantam Chat!!
They are really pretty birds If I had the room I would get a few.. I am trying to do the Gray Silkies but I will try and convince my Mom to let me have a few someday.....Considering she took over our barn with the bearded silkies

 

[peepsnbunnies]

Thanks Stephy. I love the silkies and showgirls. I raise only a few at a time, I don't have a lot of room. Let me know when you are ready!!

Lisa

 

[amyquilt]

You know, to me, the NN are one of those things that are "so ugly, they are cute".

I think the appeal of them is truly in the eye of the beholder.

I don't have any, but do like the information I've read about them, especially their personality and prolific layers.

The Showgirls!!! OMG they are adorable! So are Male Showgirls called Showboys?? LOL Or ShowRoos??? kidding...

 

[S n M Poultry]

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Unfortunatly for them they are still called Showgirls, hahaha

 

[nnbreeder]

Well it's time to revive this thread. We have had NNs for years, the wife got them from McMurray originally over my loud and frequent protests. Now I do keep other breeds too but our main birds are NNs Friendly, good layers, tolerate weather extremes very well and are resistant to many diseases, top that off with being good mothers and I feel that you have a near perfect bird. I am trying to recreate the Madagascar Games in bantam form using NNs as a base. Here is a head shot of one of the hens. No comb or wattles and a pronounced dewlap.

 

[Kev]

That is a cutie! I used to have Madagascar games but only have one hen now. I still have some Asil mixes as broodies for my peafowl eggs, some of them are naked necked.. Very cool looking birds imo!

Isn't it funny? Years ago I ordered from McM, decided to order 2 NN pullets- had to be pullets! Cuz I wasn't sure if I would like them and did not want roosters to "spread the gene" in the flock. Had I known... would have reversed the order to almost all NNs as I ended up keeping only the one NN(other one got pecked to death as a chick) and had her until she died of old age. She was a wonderful bird and made me a big fan of them.

Since then I played with creating naked neck strains of Polish, frizzles, rumpless, long legged(using Moderns), show Cornish type(these were very cool looking and tolerated the heat a thousand times better than non-naked ones) and so on. Don't have most of them anymore, my main project right now are black skinned NN with more or less of the proper type. This spring I got a dozen eggs which hatched out two birds with semi lacing(person also had SLW).. am thinking about trying for laced NN with those birds.. I'm also been wanting to get show stock birds but cannot find anybody who has them. (do have one white from Duane Urch though)

 

[nnbreeder]

I'm really suprised there are not more of them at shows. Everyone that have them that I have talked to just loves them. We are breeding some Showgirls too and have some that look a lot like the bird you are holding. They have the black skin and just four toes. Years ago the wife and were joking about breeding Silkies to NNs.......if only we had known.

 

[KellyGwen]

I just got 2 NN chicks at a local chicken sale... I also have 5 silkie chicks... If I bred them together would I get showgirls or is it more complicated than that?

 

[Kev]

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More complicated. The cross will have normal feathers(not silky).. only can get that in the second generation, however have to repeatedly cross the naked necked ones back to pure silkies to get good type otherwise the mixes tend to be tall, long legged and skinny with highly variable crests and leg feathering.

It's a very good lesson in genetics and learning how to breed with a goal though.

 

[nnbreeder]

The genes of the NNs are very dominant and will impose themselves over any other breed. Like Kev said it takes repeated matings to change the overall type and still keep the naked characteristics. But breeding projects are loads of fun and you really should do it.