Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[KuneKune]

What would y'all think is the easyest color to breed for beginners?

 

[Kev]

What would y'all think is the easyest color to breed for beginners?

Using hatchery stock- black tail buff/reds is definitely the easiest, it's by far the most common color. You'd almost just have to select and breed for type/weight.

White and black are about the same, both have their challenges- getting the white a crisp clean color, battling color leakage on the blacks, if you're starting from scratch.

If you have access to good stock where the color is established then it's roughly all equal.

 

[KuneKune]

Thanks I'll look into it

 

[draye]

Birchen is easy-ish, as it's the second most dominant basic chicken pattern. If you don't want to produce things like partridge chicks, the easiest route would be breeding with another birchen or black chicken. Then either all or at least 75% of the chicks would come out black and growing up with variable amounts of "birchen pattern".

If you don't have a black/birchen roo, then either of those roosters mentioned above would work, except the chicks would come out half black, half partridge or columbian(if I remember what your Cinnamon looked like).

@Kev
So if I had the (Black Gold or Black Copper) hens would it be possible to get any Silver Birchen roosters from the Cinnamon over them? Or would I only get The Silver Birchrn hens?

Looking for the easiest route with the stock I have.

 

[Kev]

@Kev
So if I had the (Black Gold or Black Copper) hens would it be possible to get any Silver Birchen roosters from the Cinnamon over them? Or would I only get The Silver Birchrn hens?

Looking for the easiest route with the stock I have.

Oh yeah if the cinnamon is half gold and silver- will get gold and silver in both sexes, along some "golden"(half silver half gold) cockerels. the pullets you have are silver birchen, right?

 

[draye]

Oh yeah if the cinnamon is half gold and silver-  will get gold and silver in both sexes, along some "golden"(half silver half gold) cockerels.  the pullets you have are silver birchen, right?

He is obviously silver ( Columbian with red leakage), I got a Silver Partridge from him out of the Mottked Partridge hens ( daughters if the older MP hen).

Yes the Two blue pullets are Birchens. One of them are his. The other I'd by the Golden Partridge rooster and there is s regular (black) Birchen also.

 

[Kev]

He is obviously silver ( Columbian with red leakage), I got a Silver Partridge from him out of the Mottked Partridge hens ( daughters if the older MP hen).

Yes the Two blue pullets are Birchens. One of them are his. The other I'd by the Golden Partridge rooster and there is s regular (black) Birchen also.

Great, you have solid proof he has silver, no problem with getting more birchens.

To get a pure silver roo, breed him with a birchen hen. The problem is some 'goldens' look pretty white as if they are pure for silver.

Good luck, looking forward to seeing blue birchens from you in future.

 

[draye]

Mottled Partridge (Partridge), Calico (Red), Silver Partridge, White, Black, Birchen and Blue Birchen. Too many cool colors to work on. Now I need to figure out how to get a good Black Tailed Buff ( not the hatchery BTB color, more like the Buff Brahma color).

 

[Kev]

Mottled Partridge (Partridge), Calico (Red), Silver Partridge, White, Black, Birchen and Blue Birchen. Too many cool colors to work on.

Yep cool colors and so hard to pick which ones to work with.

Was hoping to work on Oriental type NN but turns out the chicks have a bad problem with feather picking, especially the crosses with EE to bring in colored eggs.. decided to drop this whole idea and cull them out. But there is one rooster I just really like a lot- looks crazy and is so nice/tame it is very tempting to keep him and a couple pullets around.. ugh... chicken math is so hard.

I've decided to make the meat project the main one with fibro thrown in it.

 

[michellemire]

hen or rooster it's 5 months old