Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

is my jumbo really a boy? and is this one a girl? more pics: what would you call their colours? they are 7 weeks old.

The first photo is really hard to tell but I think you've gotten them sexed right. As for color they look to be red.

 

[chickengr]

The first photo is really hard to tell but I think you've gotten them sexed right.

As for color they look to be red.

thanks.

I have always wondered what colour I will get from a red roo over my white girls. there is some black in jumbo's feathers while the other one is more towards buff/wheaten. I will wait and see. at least they have an interesting patterns so I will not be so jealous of your beautiful birds any more!

 

[DesertChic]

Taking a quick late lunch break, about to head back out for more coop work (how does it always take so much longer than expected?!).

Got weights on the other boys. (Recall that Snape is 7.7lbs.) Apoc is 6.711lbs, and Tank is 6.309lbs. Haven't graphed it yet, but recall that Tank was bigger and heavier than all of them early on... (For what it's worth, at time of his injury, the vet weighed Dumbledore, the 33 week old Cream Legbar cockerel - 5 lbs. He's lost a bit during his recovery of course - he got scrambled eggs for breakfast today!)

Back to work...

- Ant Farm

And you NN boys are 20 weeks now? (I'm still using your stats to compare with my own birds.

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[Fire Ant Farm]

And you NN boys are 20 weeks now? (I'm still using your stats to compare with my own birds.

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Yup! These are out of Ideal hatchery, so I've done no improvement breeding yet.

Ever since Sweetie laid her first egg in the bedding (shaming me into giving them nest boxes stat and scrambling to finish coop), I've worried that she wouldn't figure out that she needed to use the nest box to lay. But today she did! Go Sweetie!!! (And the other girls are interested in them, so a good sign.)

Here's her trying out the first nest box, with the other girls in line to check it out (ignoring the other one, of course), with Snape standing guard.


Sweetie then switched to the other nest box to actually lay her egg today - a nice shell on this one.





- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

Yup! These are out of Ideal hatchery, so I've done no improvement breeding yet.

Ever since Sweetie laid her first egg in the bedding (shaming me into giving them nest boxes stat and scrambling to finish coop), I've worried that she wouldn't figure out that she needed to use the nest box to lay. But today she did! Go Sweetie!!! (And the other girls are interested in them, so a good sign.)

Here's her trying out the first nest box, with the other girls in line to check it out (ignoring the other one, of course), with Snape standing guard.


Sweetie then switched to the other nest box to actually lay her egg today - a nice shell on this one.





- Ant Farm

That's a nice size egg! Way to go Sweetie!

 

[draye]

@Kev

Back to the subject of this pullet and her parentage.

I do mostly multiple hens with my roosters, and can't always be 100% sure if the mothers. There is usually different colors on the mating and I try to identify the mothers according to the colors hatched trying to keep in mind sometimes daddy throws in things.

Anyway while feeding this afternoon I got to thinking after spying this hen:'

This hen is a product of crossing my Salmon NN rooster ( now deceased) with a buff colored hen ( a little on the small side, much like a hatchery Buff Orpington). I've ran into thus type if color before whole breeding buff color to another color. She dies have the blue kegs also, this comes from the Salmon NN rooster.

I call it Salmon Buff without knowing what else to call it.

I had her in the run with this rooster:

I've came to the conclusion that I mixed an egg up when I was setting it or when I was putting them in the cartons ( hatching cartons the strawberry containers) for hatching.

Do you think that it is possible that she came from this mating?

I'm mostly just curious because I'm trying to figure out the hens/pullets and put them into groups by the hen line, so that I can breed them that way and keep a bit better track of what is from what.

I would love to be able to do more individual breeding a to keep it straight but alas I'm so like most of the project folks, I just don't have enough room.

 

[DesertChic]

This is Zazzle @ 18 weeks. He's now the second biggest of my young cockerels...passed by Ozzy, but I'm still planning to keep this guy for breeding. Not only do I love his body shape, bone structure and meatiness for my meat project, but I LOVE his feathering too. Some of his tail feathers actually show black + white + buff barring all on the same feather.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

This is Zazzle @ 18 weeks. He's now the second biggest of my young cockerels...passed by Ozzy, but I'm still planning to keep this guy for breeding. Not only do I love his body shape, bone structure and meatiness for my meat project, but I LOVE his feathering too. Some of his tail feathers actually show black + white + buff barring all on the same feather.

He's so lovely!!!! Pretty boy!

I'm so beat - I've been working on the coop all day. Made good progress, still more to do, but it was time to stop...

How in the world am I going to stay awake long enough to do work laundry and lock the chickens up?!

- Ant Farm

- ANt Farm

 

[draye]

This is Zazzle @ 18 weeks. He's now the second biggest of my young cockerels...passed by Ozzy, but I'm still planning to keep this guy for breeding. Not only do I love his body shape, bone structure and meatiness for my meat project, but I LOVE his feathering too. Some of his tail feathers actually show black + white + buff barring all on the same feather.

I will say, even though I'm not a fan of barring, that is one pretty cockerel. I have used barred colored posters before though, once when I need a NN rooster and couldn't find anything else reasonably priced and another time with the Orange Barred one I had. Just used them long enough to get chicks off of and kept offspring that wasn't barred. I did keep two barred pullets though but plan on using them them other colors to make non barred.

 

[DesertChic]

He's so lovely!!!! Pretty boy!

I'm so beat - I've been working on the coop all day. Made good progress, still more to do, but it was time to stop...

How in the world am I going to stay awake long enough to do work laundry and lock the chickens up?!

- Ant Farm

- ANt Farm

I feel you, soul sister. I had to go into work to finish the taxes. That pretty much ruined the rest of my day.