Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[generaldsherman]

Are cochins bantams or large fowl?

I have seen/heard of both LF and bantam cohin

 

[Phill98]

I have seen/heard of both LF and bantam cohin

I asked what are the parents of the chicks she hatched recently.

 

[generaldsherman]

I asked what are the parents of the chicks she hatched recently.

Oh, confusing wording for that, but I get it now. Oops

 

[Phill98]

Oh, confusing wording for that, but I get it now.  Oops

No problem, I realised that my post is confusing but was lazy to change it

 

[DesertChic]

Are cochins bantams or large fowl?

They can be both, but my NN/Cochin mixes are both large fowl. In fact, they're my largest, heaviest girls in my first NN flock, which is part of the reason I wanted to breed them. Even though they tend to be much fluffier and more heavily feathered with feathering even on their shanks and feet, I'm hoping to benefit from their increased 'meatiness' compared to my other girls for my meat breeder goals.


This is one of my NN/Cochin girls, Duckie. She mothered two of my chicks.

 

[DesertChic]

The jerk part is chasing/cornering. During the actual act, the problem is that he's so big (I haven't weighed him in a while, but I think he's 8 or 9 pounds, most of the girls are 4-5lbs). They've been slowly losing feathers on their backs, and there's an occasional minor wound, though not recently - I check them frequently for injury. The aprons will help protect their back, and allow regrowing feathers a chance...

Edit to add: I think the reason they've started avoiding him/protesting is because he IS so big...

I was too busy/lazy to make chicken saddles for my girls so I purchased some from a friend who makes them. The problem is that I have some very tenacious girls who positively refuse to keep those saddles on. One of my White Rocks, in an effort to get the saddle off of herself, managed to get her winds tied back behind her. She looked so pathetic as she came running to me and laid at my feet, obviously begging to be released from her bondage. And this from a bird that usually refuses to tolerate any human contact at all. Silly, silly birds!

Most of my girls look absolutely awful right now. Whatever magic the springtime air carries in it, my boys have definitely been affected by it and are mating like crazy. I had to lock away two of my roosters for mating the same three girls dozens of times per day. The poor girls are practically bald from comb to tail.

 

[nchvac]

I was too busy/lazy to make chicken saddles for my girls so I purchased some from a friend who makes them. The problem is that I have some very tenacious girls who positively refuse to keep those saddles on. One of my White Rocks, in an effort to get the saddle off of herself, managed to get her winds tied back behind her. She looked so pathetic as she came running to me and laid at my feet, obviously begging to be released from her bondage. And this from a bird that usually refuses to tolerate any human contact at all. Silly, silly birds!

Most of my girls look absolutely awful right now. Whatever magic the springtime air carries in it, my boys have definitely been affected by it and are mating like crazy. I had to lock away two of my roosters for mating the same three girls dozens of times per day. The poor girls are practically bald from comb to tail.

My rooster stays after the ladies as well but has finally met his match. I have a Rhodebar that had a daddy that was a teddy bear to me but was a pest to my wife and dog, so he went to freezer camp though I really liked him and considered him a lap bird. Well I just started letting some of his offspring out. They stand up to and will chest bump the rooster when they have had enough. He has resorted to tricking them by calling them over after he "acts" like he found something while foraging. He makes a unique cackle noise and they come running, start scratching the dirt and he pounces on and goes to town. He will also stand to the side of the hutch so that when I let the hens out he can hide and when they pass him he pounces on them. Very crafty and I have only seen this out of NN in my flock. Strange thing is that this same rooster forages well and has taught my hens a lot about how to be a chicken, yet when I put him in the hutch he dumbs down and becomes very docile. He is docile anyway, he just acts like he is in shock when in the hutch.

 

[chickengr]

First one out is a NN, although it had a giant bib.
This one is a sex link cross if red over silver. I think this one may have been a cockerel, but I'll have to see if more hatch to compare the colors to make sure.
Hatched on day 19 and 1/2.

congrats! I can't wait to see the pics.

 

[chickengr]

I love these baby photos!

Here are some of mine from today - three of the Aloha NN boys (4.5 weeks old) that got to the top level on their own today, and decided to watch over everyone for a while (I love their exact spacing):



In other news, Snape is being a bit of a forceful jerk with his girls - I think it must be because it's spring. I need to make a whole bunch of little chicken aprons...

- Ant Farm

adorable! big boys in charge, lol.

 

[chickengr]

They can be both, but my NN/Cochin mixes are both large fowl. In fact, they're my largest, heaviest girls in my first NN flock, which is part of the reason I wanted to breed them. Even though they tend to be much fluffier and more heavily feathered with feathering even on their shanks and feet, I'm hoping to benefit from their increased 'meatiness' compared to my other girls for my meat breeder goals.


This is one of my NN/Cochin girls, Duckie. She mothered two of my chicks.

another beauty! she looks noble!