Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

I like them. Especially the blue one. Do you have rumpless araucanas or?!?

I have rumpless araucanas. I am trying to breed a rumpless araucana cockerel with my NNs.

 

[Kev]

My pullets are 4-5 pounds, and the very biggest boys are 6-7 and then Snape is almost 8. Not bad, but seems like we both have work to do.

German New Hampshires arrive in April!!!!

I may think about some other big crosses. And these aloha NNs have big parents as I understand, apparently (at least bigger than the aloha chickens that started small - she's been doing work on that).

- Ant Farm

Really looking forward to your GNH!

I should try weighing some of the other NN.. yeah that's a good idea before I start collecting eggs for another round of hatching but am still very impatiently waiting for certain hens to start laying again.

 

[Kev]

I have rumpless araucanas. I am trying to breed a rumpless araucana cockerel with my NNs.

Do you have plans for breeding the huge NN gal with him? That would be a sight, a huge rumpless NN lol

 

[chickengr]

White eggs are what the stores sell in the US... some people won't eat the brown/tan eggs because of this.. they think eggs are supposed to be white so there has to be something wrong or "dirty" about the brown eggs lol And then there are some who think the browns are organic or healthier...

I have heard many people (not in greece) say that white eggs are from fake chickens. they think that white hybrid chickens incubate in 1 day only, lol. this comes from misunderstanding of the meaning 1 day old chickens.

 

[chickengr]

Do you have plans for breeding the huge NN gal with him? That would be a sight, a huge rumpless NN lol

she is already in his harem. but no broody yet.

as I like strange things I would love to have a rumpless, feathered legged NN with pea comb.

 

[draye]

Do you have plans for breeding the huge NN gal with him?  That would be a sight, a huge rumpless NN lol

I'd love yak see one like that also.

she is already in his harem. but no broody yet.

as I like strange things I would love to have a rumpless, feathered legged NN with pea comb.

Yeah, but no feathered legs though, but a crest would look neat.

 

[chickengr]

Okay...here's my egg story. I'm currently collecting 24 eggs per day from 32 chickens of laying age, and some of those eggs are getting a little interesting. The top egg is a nearly 3 oz/85 g cream colored egg from my smallest layer. The 0.34 oz/9.6g "fairy egg" is from one of my largest layers, and the bottom, blue average 2.05 oz/58.1g egg is from one of my average sized Easter Eggers.

nice pic. it is so funny to see fairy eggs. I have had 1 only so far. and my tiny leghorns lay huge eggs. they eat little so I am considering getting 2 more of them.

 

[chickengr]

I'd love yak see one like that also.
Yeah, but no feathered legs though, but a crest would look neat.

I remember you are not a fan of feathered legs. btw I would need years of crossing to get such a cross.

 

[hellbender]

I remember you are not a fan of feathered legs. btw I would need years of crossing to get such a cross.

It might take far less time than you seem to think.

 

[Phill98]

Thanks for the compliment. I'm loving how those crosses are looking too. They're a little crazy, but I like that. I don't have a recent picture of Shiloh, my big NN rooster, but here's one from last summer when he was weighing in around 9 lbs. His back is nice and wide and his body feels like solid muscle. I'm so anxious to breed him, but so short on space right now. I'm still processing all of those cockerels from my last hatch...only about 2 per week...and then need to change up the housing arrangement of most of my birds before I can proceed with breeding programs. Every time I think I have enough pens/coops....I somehow wind up with more birds than space.

Wow. Now that is a rooster. I really love his body tipe and color. I think that body tipe is very important in chicken's look. You can have beautifuly colored chicken, but if she doesn't have beautiful tipe, it's ruining it's look. And eggs are great. My chickens actually lay proportional to their size. Big chicken big eggs. So that makes it easy for me to decide which eggs I'm going to set under a broody.