Our First Broody and Incubator Hatch: a Diary

[cactusrota]

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@BlueBaby here's the roo with his mama, Ruby is top far left. He's taller than the girls and fairly close in body size but he's still waiting on those tail feathers to fully come in.

How old is he now?

 

[Compost King]

seeing those pictures makes me want to tinker around with a Jersey Giant and a Naked Neck chicken and see if I can convince anyone that I am breeding Turkeys

 

[BlueBaby]

seeing those pictures makes me want to tinker around with a Jersey Giant and a Naked Neck chicken and see if I can convince anyone that I am breeding Turkeys

Go for it!

 

[igorsMistress]

How old is he now?

17 weeks now

 

[cactusrota]

seeing those pictures makes me want to tinker around with a Jersey Giant and a Naked Neck chicken and see if I can convince anyone that I am breeding Turkeys

fyi - the one on the right is a Jersey Giant cross pullet, the two on the left are standard Transylvania NN's.. I have three of these JG crosses in the main flock and a couple more at 8 weeks old in the grow out pen.

 

[Compost King]

oh wow, thanks for sharing that. I guess Next I would ask to see a naked neck crossed with one of those giant game chickens from Asia lol?

 

[cactusrota]

oh wow, thanks for sharing that. I guess Next I would ask to see a naked neck crossed with one of those giant game chickens from Asia lol?

I've seen pics of those, but on facebook. I was gonna do it, had some low quality Malays, but decided I didn't need another project and rehomed them.

 

[igorsMistress]

Fugly will be 6 months old at the end of this week. He's a handsome boy, has a deep crow and seems to get most of it out of his system in the mornings. He was singing the egg song with one of the girls yesterday. The bottom pic is the whole flock having some scratch this afternoon.

 

[aart]

Fugly will be 6 months old at the end of this week.

I love that first pic....he is striking!

 

[igorsMistress]

I love that first pic....he is striking!

Thank you, I really like the way he turned out. I did NOT name him, but it made me laugh so it stuck.