Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Your birds are beautiful. I love how leghorn eggs look, there is something about that big white eggs I like. I don't really like the brown and tan ones I have.

White eggs are what the stores sell in the US... some people won't eat the brown/tan eggs because of this.. they think eggs are supposed to be white so there has to be something wrong or "dirty" about the brown eggs lol And then there are some who think the browns are organic or healthier...

 

[Phill98]

Seems there are bigger/heavier chickens on your side of the pond.  11 pound hen is exceptional over here.  Even a 11 pound rooster is considered very big over here.   I do have a pullet that weighed in at 11, however she is a slow broiler hen.  She probably weighs more now that she;s a year old and has gained a lot of fat.. not crazy about how fatty she is right now but oh well I am trying to increase size in a NN line.

If you can/want to, keep sons of big egg hens and breed back over her.   I had a line of large NN that laid huge eggs but in attempt to reduce flock size, I merged this line with another new project line(small/medium eggs) and unfortunately all of the cross hens are laying small eggs, extremely disappointing especially as I already culled out all of the big egg line birds.  Lesson learned.......    Hope to get the big eggs back eventually in this line.

Like I already said, not all of them are that bog. I have 6 that are around 9-11 all others are small. Big ones are older gals, around five or six years.

 

[Phill98]

White eggs are what the stores sell in the US...   some people won't eat the brown/tan eggs because of this.. they think eggs are supposed to be white so there has to be something wrong or "dirty" about the brown eggs lol  And then there are some who think the browns are organic or healthier...

Here you can't find white eggs in stores. Just brown ones. Actually people thonk that white eggs aren't as nutritious as brown ones and don't put lighter eggs under the broodies because they think they have thin shell that would broke under them

 

[Kev]

Like I already said, not all of them are that bog. I have 6 that are around 9-11 all others are small. Big ones are older gals, around five or six years.

That's still big. The breed standards call for mature roosters to weigh 8 pounds on average(plus or minus 1-2 pounds for different breeds) so your old big gals are heavier than a common rooster here.

 

[Kev]

Here you can't find white eggs in stores. Just brown ones. Actually people thonk that white eggs aren't as nutritious as brown ones and don't put lighter eggs under the broodies because they think they have thin shell that would broke under them

That's funny. I find it interesting how people simply know "facts" about the eggs when it's mainly just pigments on surface of the shell...

I have noticed a lot of the white store eggs have rather thin egg shells though.. break too easy. I get a lot of comments on eggshells from my birds being very hard. I don;t think it has anything to do with color, probably care and diet.

 

[hellbender]

That's still big. The breed standards call for mature roosters to weigh 8 pounds on average(plus or minus 1-2 pounds for different breeds) so your old big gals are heavier than a common rooster here.

Unless Phill has need of many, many eggs...he might be better off than he realizes. Might have the makings of some very hefty NNs or just very meaty birds in general.

Good on you Phill.

 

[Phill98]

That's still big.  The breed standards call for mature roosters to weigh 8 pounds on average(plus or minus 1-2 pounds for different breeds) so your old big gals are heavier than a common rooster here.

Two of them actually weigh more than my rooster too. They don't look that big, but they are.

That's funny.  I find it interesting how people simply know "facts" about the eggs when it's mainly just pigments on surface of the shell...

I have noticed a lot of the white store eggs have rather thin egg shells though..  break too easy.  I get a lot of comments on eggshells from my birds being very hard. I don;t think it has anything to do with color, probably care and diet.

Few weeks ago I showed my grandma a pic of Kassaundra's fm rooster and some naked ones. Also I told her about the green eggs. She said that that is some other specie of birds, that they aren't chickens.

 

[Phill98]

Unless Phill has need of many, many eggs...he might be better off than he realizes.  Might have the makings of some very hefty NNs or just very meaty birds in general.

Good on you Phill.  

Thanks. They are actually pretty good layers, laying aroind 4 eggs a week. Eggs are medium sized. Of cpurse I have better layers, but I think that 4 eggs per week for that big and old hen is pretty good.

 

[DesertChic]

@Kev do you think these have broiler's blood?





they don't have impacted crops, they are piggy eaters. lol.

my NNs come from the same farm and probably are mixed with these chickens. Only my big fat NN and the black one lay jumbo size eggs, all the rest lay medium size tinted eggs. (one NN lays medium size pink eggs.)\

on the first pic you can see bella with a white leghorn, just to compare the size. the last pic is not good, but that is my wheatie. I desperately wanted a wheaten chicken and got it! bella, wheatie and meggie (red mottled) were bought as cockerels for meat (I wanted to try to raise chickens for meat but failed). luckily they turned out to be girls. and anita was supposed to be black NN and then the feathers grew up.

You've no reason to envy any of us. Your chickens are beautiful! I especially love that one in the top photo. Wow!

 

[DesertChic]

Seems there are bigger/heavier chickens on your side of the pond. 11 pound hen is exceptional over here. Even a 11 pound rooster is considered very big over here. I do have a pullet that weighed in at 11, however she is a slow broiler hen. She probably weighs more now that she;s a year old and has gained a lot of fat.. not crazy about how fatty she is right now but oh well I am trying to increase size in a NN line.

If you can/want to, keep sons of big egg hens and breed back over her. I had a line of large NN that laid huge eggs but in attempt to reduce flock size, I merged this line with another new project line(small/medium eggs) and unfortunately all of the cross hens are laying small eggs, extremely disappointing especially as I already culled out all of the big egg line birds. Lesson learned....... Hope to get the big eggs back eventually in this line.

Okay, now I'm feeling lucky. I've got a one year old NN rooster that weighs over 11 pounds, and a Bielefelder cockerel that ways over 11.5 pounds....and one Biel pullet that weighs 7.4 lbs. Guess who's going into my meat breeding program?