Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

[feathers4fun]

Wow, after seeing that these grainy poor pics don't begin to do these girls justice, I'm determined to try and get some better photos with my real camera.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

my Jersey Giant rooster did not scare the hawk away I have been having issues with. Nothing for a week but today I came home to a dead penedesenca hen

 

[feathers4fun]

my Jersey Giant rooster did not scare the hawk away I have been having issues with. Nothing for a week but today I came home to a dead penedesenca hen

Hawks are ruthless and will return to an easy meal. So sorry...

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Hawks are ruthless and will return to an easy meal. So sorry...

yeah I was hoping he would see the giant and stay away. guess not

 

[3 NH reds]

So where is there a guide to the standards for Black Jersey Giants? Mine are hatched from eggs. The lady I got them from said they were a show line and had a blue ribbon for the rooster, don't remember where she got it.

 

[Wynette]

So where is there a guide to the standards for Black Jersey Giants? Mine are hatched from eggs. The lady I got them from said they were a show line and had a blue ribbon for the rooster, don't remember where she got it.

Hi there - you need to get a Standard of Perfection from the American Poultry Assn. for the full details of the standards for each breed, but here are the "basics" for Giants:

In the SOP, under, "shape," it says this:
MALE:
COMB: Single, rather large, straigt and uprigt, having six well defined and evenly serrated points, the blade following the contour of the neck.
BEAK: Moderately short, stout, well-curved.
FACE: Surface smooth, skin fine and soft in texture.
EYES: Large, round and full.
WATTLES: Medium size, well rounded at lower ends fine in texture, free from fold or wrinkles.
EAR LOBES: Moderately large, extending down one-half the length of the wattles, smooth.
HEAD: Rather large, broad.
NECK: Moderately long, full, well-arched.
BACK: Rather long, broad, nearly horizontal, with a short sweep to tail.
TAIL: Rather large, full, well-spread, carried at an angle of forty-five degrees (45*) above horizontal. Main tail -- broad and overlapping. Sickles -- of just sufficient length to cover main tail feathers. Coverts -- moderately abundant and medium in length.
WINGS: Medium size, well-folded, carried at same angle as the back. Primaries and Secondaries -- broad and overlapping in natural order when wing is folded.
BREAST: Broad, deep, full, carried well forward.
BODY AND FLUFF: Body -- long, wide, deep, compact smooth at sides. Keel -- long. Fluff -- moderately full, smooth.
LEGS AND TOES: Legs set well apart, straight when viewed from front. Lower thighs -- large, medium length, well-feathered. Shanks -- stout in bone, moderately long. Toes -- four on each foot, medium length.

STANDARD WEIGHTS:
Cock ....... 13 lbs
Hen ........ 10 lbs
Cockeral ... 11 lbs
Pullet ....... 8 lbs

under, "DISQUALIFICATIONS" -
Bottoms of feet showing complete absence of yellow.

In addition to that, under the BLACK Jersey Giants -
More than one-half inch of positive white showing on the surface, or two or more feathers tipped or edged with positive white.


I don't know that I have the "female" SOP portion for Giants specifically but I'll go look & post later if I do.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Framac, my heart is with the blues! You really do need blacks to cross in, though - that makes the lacing better on the blues. This year, I ran a blue cock bird with black (and one splash) hen. In the spring, I'll do my hatching early (I'm planning on putting around 80 - 100 chicks on the ground), and then I want to hold back the best black cockerel and put him in with some nice blue hens - I'm curious about whether the offspring will look the same from both pens or not.

Capons - my menor, Sher, caponizes her cull males and has has extremely good luck with it. She actually even sells them to folks for pets! They stop crowing, and turn into feathered puppy dogs, apparently.

If Sher is the one who lives in Washougal (Jennings Jersey Giants) I bought a couple of capons from her awhile back. She is a very nice lady! She seems very dedicated to the breed. We unfortunately didn't keep them long because we went a different direction with our flock at the time.

 

[silkiechicken]

yeah I was hoping he would see the giant and stay away. guess not

That sucks. But at least you tried.

 

[silkiechicken]

STANDARD WEIGHTS:
Cock ....... 13 lbs
Hen ........ 10 lbs
Cockeral ... 11 lbs
Pullet ....... 8 lbs

It seems the weight portion is easiest to meet...but perhaps hard to not exceed!

I have no real good way to weigh those two roos I have, but with a human scale, they are somewhere between 11-13lbs each at just about 8 months! I really need a good way to weigh them!

 

[canesisters]

Ok.. yet ANOTHER dumb question from me...

I'm sitting here at work - in my reindeer antlers and flashing nose - bored to death because NO ONE comes to the landfill on Christmas eve. And so I'm surfing BYC and making my list (and checking it twice) for the chicks I want to get in the spring. Of course, a JG is right near the top of the list. But then I saw a post someone made about how funny someone else's roo (not a JG) looked coming out of the coop because he's so round that he takes up the whole pop door - and THAT's when the dumb question hit me. I have a pullet shut door - and I've never actually SEEN a JG 'in the feather'. Would there be a problem with her getting in and out?? My set up is such that she'd have to go up some 1/2 cinterblock steps on each side of the door.

Ok, dumb question asked - back to being bored