Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

That is on my list for early spring. Well, actually not rose comb but rather pea and cushion combs.

Curious - why?

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Dug out some more photos, including "baby pictures" of him with his wee rose comb...


And at 8 weeks:

 

[hellbender]

Curious - why?

- Ant Farm

Why? because I can...

Seriously, there are a few reasons. It helps keep our frequently very cold weather from creating frostbite risks and it also helps to produce birds with fewer feathers and makes them easier to pluck. We do not like the idea of using electric powered feather plucking and the hand plucking will be far easier...plus, I've come to appreciate the stream-lined look of the cushion/pea combs.

We will still keep straight combs on our White NN SOP project of course but everything else will be tilted toward meat (capons) so it just makes sense to us.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Why? because I can...

Seriously, there are a few reasons. It helps keep our frequently very cold weather from creating frostbite risks and it also helps to produce birds with fewer feathers and makes them easier to pluck. We do not like the idea of using electric powered feather plucking and the hand plucking will be far easier...plus, I've come to appreciate the stream-lined look of the cushion/pea combs.

We will still keep straight combs on our White NN SOP project of course but everything else will be tilted toward meat (capons) so it just makes sense to us.

That's right - I had forgotten that whole thing about pea-combed NNs having fewer feathers. (Frostbite's not an issue here, but that would be cool. ) Even more fun would be the green (or blue, if you could swing it) eggs depending on how you went for it...

- Ant Farm

 

[hellbender]

That's right - I had forgotten that whole thing about pea-combed NNs having fewer feathers. (Frostbite's not an issue here, but that would be cool. ) Even more fun would be the green (or blue, if you could swing it) eggs depending on how you went for it...

- Ant Farm

Not going for it that way...using White Chanteclers (cushion comb) and Dark Cornish, (pea comb). If you don't like that little black cockerel, just send him to the WV mountains!!!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Not going for it that way...using White Chanteclers (cushion comb) and Dark Cornish, (pea comb). If you don't like that little black cockerel, just send him to the WV mountains!!!

Oh, I like him!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[flower]

Why? because I can...

Seriously, there are a few reasons. It helps keep our frequently very cold weather from creating frostbite risks and it also helps to produce birds with fewer feathers and makes them easier to pluck. We do not like the idea of using electric powered feather plucking and the hand plucking will be far easier...plus, I've come to appreciate the stream-lined look of the cushion/pea combs.

We will still keep straight combs on our White NN SOP project of course but everything else will be tilted toward meat (capons) so it just makes sense to us.

the above are reasons that I prefer rose or pea combs. Added to that is the reduction of wattles. Lack of fleshy protuberances and addition of crest are my idea of a fancy looking bird. Eggs and fancy (or just different) looking flock are my idea of fun flock.
My infamous BLR/NN with rose comb.
My ungainly teen, with crest and no visible comb. Can't wait till springtime and see her eggs. No longer hear her trying to crow as she did a few months ago. ha ha

An d'uccle/EE with small crest lays nice green eggs


My youngest pullet with old broody Serama/NN, Miss Rosa on right is my alarm system. Being very small she leaves the coop/run and makes as much noise possible to her in order to inform me that my attention is required. I think her rose comb is perfect !

 

[hellbender]

the above are reasons that I prefer rose or pea combs. Added to that is the reduction of wattles. Lack of fleshy protuberances and addition of crest are my idea of a fancy looking bird. Eggs and fancy (or just different) looking flock are my idea of fun flock.
My infamous BLR/NN with rose comb.
My ungainly teen, with crest and no visible comb. Can't wait till springtime and see her eggs. No longer hear her trying to crow as she did a few months ago. ha ha

An d'uccle/EE with small crest lays nice green eggs


My youngest pullet with old broody Serama/NN, Miss Rosa on right is my alarm system. Being very small she leaves the coop/run and makes as much noise possible to her in order to inform me that my attention is required. I think her rose comb is perfect !

Phyllis (as in Diller) would be a good name for the one that tried to crow!!

 

[chickengr]

the above are reasons that I prefer rose or pea combs. Added to that is the reduction of wattles. Lack of fleshy protuberances and addition of crest are my idea of a fancy looking bird. Eggs and fancy (or just different) looking flock are my idea of fun flock.
My infamous BLR/NN with rose comb.
My ungainly teen, with crest and no visible comb. Can't wait till springtime and see her eggs. No longer hear her trying to crow as she did a few months ago. ha ha

An d'uccle/EE with small crest lays nice green eggs


My youngest pullet with old broody Serama/NN, Miss Rosa on right is my alarm system. Being very small she leaves the coop/run and makes as much noise possible to her in order to inform me that my attention is required. I think her rose comb is perfect !

BEAUTIFUL BIRDS!

I have a question about trying to crow pullet. I have a buff orpington bought as a pullet who had red wattles. I posted a pic on byc and everyone said a cockerel. at 3-4 months old this chicken tried to crow 2-3 times and never again. now is 5 months old, does have pointy saddle feathers but comb and wattles are hen size and definitively no crowing. here are the pics taken a month ago. in this one saddle feathers are more visible:


the wattles are a bit bigger now but the comb is the same size:


any idea what this chicken is?

btw my sick NN girls are doing well. one of them have 1 foot a bit swollen but this might be due to scratch wound. she lays eggs every day. my big fat one is more serious, I think she has more than one problem. but she is a fighter. her appetite increased a bit which I think is a good sign.

 

[draye]

BEAUTIFUL BIRDS! I have a question about trying to crow pullet. I have a buff orpington bought as a pullet who had red wattles. I posted a pic on byc and everyone said a cockerel. at 3-4 months old this chicken tried to crow 2-3 times and never again. now is 5 months old, does have pointy saddle feathers but comb and wattles are hen size and definitively no crowing. here are the pics taken a month ago. in this one saddle feathers are more visible: the wattles are a bit bigger now but the comb is the same size: any idea what this chicken is? btw my sick NN girls are doing well. one of them have 1 foot a bit swollen but this might be due to scratch wound. she lays eggs every day. my big fat one is more serious, I think she has more than one problem. but she is a fighter. her appetite increased a bit which I think is a good sign.

She may be a I can't recall the word for it but is actually both sexes. I had one like that once. Whole she was growing up "she" had the looks of and acted like a pullet. But when she was grown as in lay kf age she developed tge saddle feathers ons tail " partial" feathers of a chick bird. She never crowed " at least I never heard nor saw her" nor ever laid an egg. I know she was plenty old enough to lay eggs because her hatch mates had started laying. Then one day when she was at about a year old walked out and found her dead.