Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[DesertChic]

Here's my break down for my Spring hatching.

What I have:
I have 7 runs:

1) I have a Cinnamon(Columbian with Red Leakage) Naked Neck rooster, he has 4 hens in with him. All are Partridge colored (2 are mottled). Trying for more Silver Partridges.

2) I have a Spangled Aloha rooster over 3 hens. My Mottled Partridge hen, a Blue Gold NN hen and my Silver Partridge green egg layer. I chose these three for him so that I can tell which egg is which.

3) This run has a Silver Partridge rooster ( note here I was calling him a Cream Partridge, but closer inspection reveals that he's silver with red leakage) with Red. He has a total of 6 hens with him, a mix of colors. Mostly trying to get green egg layers from these most all the hens carry EE blood. The rooster hatched from a green egg.

4) This runs has a Golden Partridge rooster in with a Birchen Crossbred hen ( not NN), a Black NN hen and a Blue NN hen, 2 Golden Birchen NN hens, a Blue Gold NN hen and Silver Partridge hen. Working for Silver Partridges, Partridges and Birchern, Gold Birchen.j

5). Red Winged Black rooster I have with him 3 White hens ( mother and 2 daughters), a Blue Red NN hen, a Blue Red NN hen, and the Blue Birchen hen.

6). I have a Calico rooster in this run, he has 3 Red NN hens, a Red Partridge NN hen, the Speckled NN hen, a Birchen NN hrn, a Silver NN hen, and a Black Tailed White NN hen. Testing to see what comes through in the odd colored hens. As always red hens mix the best with the Calico's.

7). A Red Mottled rooster. I have 4 Red NN hens a Red Partridge hen, and a Black NN hen. The Black just because( I've tried her wirpth three different roosters and am not really happy with the color results).

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Whoa! That's a lot of projects!

I've only got two breeding pens set up.

The largest one has my birchen-esque NN rooster, Pepper, with a handful of buff and red NNs and one mottled/painted EE (I'm still moving the girls around).When I finally get all of the hens I'm most interested in breeding him to in place it should total 9 hens to this one rooster, but a couple of the hens were broody recently and he's shown no interest in them, and they're not laying. They're mainly there because of limited housing. As a general rule, these girls and this rooster represent some of my best egg layers.



The second has my fastest growing buff barred rooster, Zazzle, with my biggest NN and fully feathered mature hens. Zazzle also carries the blue egg gene, as do a few of the girls he's with. My goal here is meat. Once all of the girls are in place, he'll have 1 pure White Rock, 3 large WR/Ameraucana mixes, one WR/NN mix (my biggest girl), and one large Bielefelder/Australorp mix. I'm considering including two of my buff NN girls that carry the blue egg gene as well.

 

[Kev]

This is a great idea- others should jump in with your plans too!

 

[Kev]

I don't have any plans set in stone yet.

Want to breed the cx-NN cross birds, but have not culled the pullets yet and decide which rooster to put with these. Some of them are laying blue/green eggs, going to give those a preference so the gene does not get reduced to such low numbers again(was just three earlier this year and one is an ancient hen).

Short legged dwarf pullets showed up from a pen, ironically from a pen with a very big and broad rooster.. just waiting to see if they don;t have any problems with laying.. don't really have extra space for another project but this genetic carrot on a stick is proving very hard for me to resist. Not sure which rooster to use with those, either a brother or a completely unrelated rooster to test for genetic inheritance.. if they throw short legs with the latter rooster, then it would be very surprising as it would prove a dominant gene is in play and not a recessive sex linked dwarf like I first suspected.

Continue breeding the father of the dwarfs above to see if he actually has the gene or not.

There is a trio of half barbezieux half blue egg NN juveniles- did this cross to increase the size in the blue egg NN but.. not sure if this will be continued.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I love reading about everyone's plans - I always learn so much.

For my plans, I should state that I really do need to keep the numbers down, so I'm trying to be mindful of that (of course, things go more slowly that way). Also, I like variety, so I actually have a number of different breed birds around. But if I had to pick the primary project, the one I'm most serious about, it would be the NN/GNH cross.

I'll start with putting the Golden Girls (the three GNH pullets) with Tank next weekend when his other girls go to their new home.




Tank is NN, so all offspring should be Nn. Now that the S&G chicks are coming at the end of February, I'll need to think about when I want to do that hatch. There's only so many chicks I want to raise up in a given year. Provided they grow well, I'll select S&G pullets to put with each of the GNH boys (I'll keep either two or three). I will not keep any fully feathered offspring (and may lean toward full NN genetics). I'll set up the next crosses depending on what the S&Gs look like/grow like and how Tank's kids do.

In my laying coop I have 4 Cream Legbars who are laying blue eggs with quite nice saturated color. I also have the copper marans (3 blues and a black), laying very dark eggs, and an olive egger. So, really lovely eggs coming out of that group. Their cockerel is Goodwin the Lavender Ameraucana. I have the makings of more olive eggers if I want to hatch a few of those. I like the idea of crossing the Lav Am with the CLs, but I have had issues with robustness in the CLs as a group (at least the initial females - all hatchery). The mother of these four is well, as is dad, but I really want to wait until they are well over 1 year before I even consider deciding they will be hearty enough to breed from. If not, I will continue with the plan to keep them as blue layers, and maybe get some lavender wheaten ameraucanas from Luanne somewhere along the road to serve as my blue layers in the future.

The rest are just idle ideas flitting through my brain - I also have a big splash copper maran I'm going to keep as long as he behaves - he looks a little like a white chicken that rolled in the mud...



He could potentially be crossed with any of the CLs, or I can get more splashes and blues by putting him with marans girls (I'd love babies form the black copper maran girl for her temperament alone). But I'm not in a rush for that - likely another year/another time.

I think I'll go slow, but those are some of my ideas.

- Ant Farm

 

[GabrielBane]

x2 about reading up on plans! I had initially told myself I'd be working on an olive egger NN project, but since I've recently favored the Sulmtalers and Legbars as well, I may work on a NN/Sulmtaler cross with blue egg genes. One day, one day......

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

x2 about reading up on plans! I had initially told myself I'd be working on an olive egger NN project, but since I've recently favored the Sulmtalers and Legbars as well, I may work on a NN/Sulmtaler cross with blue egg genes. One day, one day......

So many ideas, so little time... and so little coop space.. (If I had the space, there's no telling what I'd do!)

- Ant Farm

 

[SleepyHollowFnF]

We've got three naked neck buff silkies that the person we bought them from called "showgirls." Do any of you folks know if theres a good market for these? We are thinking about breeding them once they start laying more. I've been having a hard time gauging if they're truly very popular or not.

Thanks

 

[draye]

We've got three naked neck buff silkies that the person we bought them from called "showgirls." Do any of you folks know if theres a good market for these? We are thinking about breeding them once they start laying more. I've been having a hard time gauging if they're truly very popular or not. 

Thanks 

They have their faithful follwers. Thes is a thread for thfm somewhere in the forum.

 

[DesertChic]

We've got three naked neck buff silkies that the person we bought them from called "showgirls." Do any of you folks know if theres a good market for these? We are thinking about breeding them once they start laying more. I've been having a hard time gauging if they're truly very popular or not.

Thanks

They have their faithful follwers. Thes is a thread for thfm somewhere in the forum.

Most definitely! There are still some people who can't get past the naked neck aspect, but a lot of people seem to perceive Showgirls as the poodle of the chicken world. You get all the benefit of that super fluffy, soft feathering, but in a unique bird that defies every assumption about what a chicken should be.

 

[DesertChic]

So many ideas, so little time... and so little coop space.. (If I had the space, there's no telling what I'd do!)

- Ant Farm

Isn't THAT the truth! Today is day 14 of my Silver Gray Dorking incubation and all 9 eggs + the 3 from my flock is still developing well. That means a dozen new chicks, most of which will be a whole new breed requiring strict attention to detail. Then there's my egg laying NN breeding...my meatie NN breeding...my pure NN breeding...my "wouldn't that be an interesting cross" breeding...my white feathered NN breeding...my Dark Cornish and CX mix breeding....

...Did I mention that I already have 65 chickens I'm trying to house, group, monitor and cull down? I've got one entire flock of hens that stopped laying completely for weeks. They're now housed together in a single run in preparation for culling, so naturally they've started laying again. I know it's not effective poultry husbandry practice but I have a harder time culling hens, especially when they're still giving me eggs. It just seems so wrong.....

I had to warn my husband that there will be A LOT more chickens around here for a while. He just sighed and stared at his cell phone.

But I'm REALLY excited to see how you NN x GNH crosses turn out!