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Kev said:
What makes you think I don't pay my chauffeur with NN money? It's like saying I don't believe you pay for moonshine with your NN money. Like, so rude, right? Hang ten, dude-bro. ;)

I might stop by that feed store later and see how well the NN chicks have sold.. or not.
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I don''t buy 'shine' bro...I makes it!
 
SlipsWife said:
Sadly, I have no pictures of his bum...I have pictures of other bums, everyone ran away from me trying to get photos today, but him
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Thank you everyone for your responses!!! We have a Cream Legbar cockerel right now, I'm not sure I 'want' another cockerel but since I've read that NN roosters tend to be calm and quiet, I'm not kicking him out...yet...

What are the odds that the feathers on his neck might not come back when he feathers out? One of our hens from last year had just a little bit of fluff on her neck, I think it ended up looking like 2 feathers, and when she feathered out, the 2 spots didn't feather out...if that makes sense. In other words, she ended up with a clean neck.

I really like a clean neck NN...I've learned quickly that I'm probably not going to get that from hatchery stock and once I get all of our extras sold I'm hoping to buy a few eggs to hatch.
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You won't get it from all eggs either.
 
SlipsWife said:
What are the odds that the feathers on his neck might not come back when he feathers out? One of our hens from last year had just a little bit of fluff on her neck, I think it ended up looking like 2 feathers, and when she feathered out, the 2 spots didn't feather out...if that makes sense. In other words, she ended up with a clean neck.

I really like a clean neck NN...I've learned quickly that I'm probably not going to get that from hatchery stock and once I get all of our extras sold I'm hoping to buy a few eggs to hatch.
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Only true clean necks are born that way. Birds with that few or even less like the only two feathers often get them broken or plucked off by other birds or normal wear. I had several hens from hatchery stock that had literally only one or two feathers on each side of neck, these would have their bowtie pin feathers plucked out by other hens pretty often and if they managed to grow them out, they just simply broke not long after. If the feather gets broken, the neck looks clean until molt. Those hens never produced clean necks, even with a very small bowtie rooster. I got clean necks only from a line via egg trade, those birds had normal bowties, not particularly small yet they would throw clean necks consistently in small numbers. I never got around to pairing a clean neck to a clean neck to see what the result would be.

That cockerel would be really good for breeding super naked necks, you never know if whatever it is that helps with totally clean necks happens to be lurking in your birds, breeding them together would throw the occasional clean neck.
 

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