Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

I have been reading the enormous "What are you canning" thread... 

... and just read the first line of your post "I ate my hatching results". ACK! 


I think sometimes one must be careful which treads one reads simultaneously. 


 

Ha ha! Good catch there.
I went and corrected that typo. I'm using a phone and my fingers are quite a bit bigger that the letters so I make plenty if typos. I usually try to proof read after opting then go and edit the mistakes.

 

[codieshell]

better pic

 

[DesertChic]

Two dozen eggs in the incubator now, the vast majority of them from my NNs.



The first three rows from the left are pure NN, the next row some Silkie eggs after my Bielefelder cockerels got hold of her (poor little thing), then three more NN eggs and the rest from my Australorps after being mated by my Biel breeding cockerel. I'm not 100% sure of fertility on the non-NN eggs, but I'm hoping for a decent hatch overall. (And yes, I've already caught myself starting down at the eggs, willing them to develop.

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[DesertChic]

Oh, and this is my pure Ameraucana cockerel at 19 weeks. I had originally planned to cull him when I culled my Dorking-mix cockerels six weeks ago, but stayed my hand. Now I'm glad that I did, because he's so large, meaty and well formed....I think he'd be great to breed to my NN girls.

 

[hellbender]

Oh, and this is my pure Ameraucana cockerel at 19 weeks. I had originally planned to cull him when I culled my Dorking-mix cockerels six weeks ago, but stayed my hand. Now I'm glad that I did, because he's so large, meaty and well formed....I think he'd be great to breed to my NN girls.

YEP!

 

[Kev]

Oh, and this is my pure Ameraucana cockerel at 19 weeks. I had originally planned to cull him when I culled my Dorking-mix cockerels six weeks ago, but stayed my hand. Now I'm glad that I did, because he's so large, meaty and well formed....I think he'd be great to breed to my NN girls.

Nice looking bird and YEAH to keeping for meatiness... but got to say he doesn't look pure amer. No beard as I can see and close up is not sharp but it looks like he might have walnut comb..?

edited- not to be criticial! I like his looks a lot and seems I am a big fan of walnut combs but ahem, the EE/amer is a rather sensitive sore spot around the forums lol

 

[Kev]

Two dozen eggs in the incubator now, the vast majority of them from my NNs.



The first three rows from the left are pure NN, the next row some Silkie eggs after my Bielefelder cockerels got hold of her (poor little thing), then three more NN eggs and the rest from my Australorps after being mated by my Biel breeding cockerel. I'm not 100% sure of fertility on the non-NN eggs, but I'm hoping for a decent hatch overall. (And yes, I've already caught myself starting down at the eggs, willing them to develop.

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[DesertChic]

Nice looking bird and YEAH to keeping for meatiness... but got to say he doesn't look pure amer. No beard as I can see and close up is not sharp but it looks like he might have walnut comb..?

You could be right about that as he came from purchased hatching eggs...and I'm admittedly not that familiar with the breed. Definitely no beard, and his comb looks more like a cushion comb than a pea comb to me.

Still...he's gorgeous! And big! I'm also planning to breed him to my frizzled and smooth Easter Eggers.

 

[Kev]

You could be right about that as he came from purchased hatching eggs...and I'm admittedly not that familiar with the breed. Definitely no beard, and his comb looks more like a cushion comb than a pea comb to me.

Still...he's gorgeous! And big! I'm also planning to breed him to my frizzled and smooth Easter Eggers.

you replied as I edited my previous post. I like this roo also, just that the EE/amer topic is a rather sensitive around here lol...

cusion is rose + pea. same genetics as walnut really. I have some walnut NN right now and am liking the look.....

anyways, expect walnut/cushion, pea, rose and single comb in the cross....

 

[DesertChic]

you replied as I edited my previous post. I like this roo also, just that the EE/amer topic is a rather sensitive around here lol...

cusion is rose + pea. same genetics as walnut really. I have some walnut NN right now and am liking the look.....

anyways, expect walnut/cushion, pea, rose and single comb in the cross....

LOL! Yeah....I've seen a few people get their heads bitten off by calling their Easter Eggers chickens Ameraucanas. Some people are very polite in pointing out the difference, and some come across as zealots. Me? I just want some good meat birds and lots of eggs. I'm maintaining a line of pure NNs, and a line of pure Bielefelders. Everything else I'm using to breed for heat tolerance and overall hardiness, good meat size with fast growth, friendly disposition, and then my good egg layers. The fact that I get some pretty feather colors is just a bonus.