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[chickadoodles]

Quote: Your girls are very pretty. I do love your work Scg! WOW!

 

[getaclue]

Years ago, my middle daughter had a Blue Himalayan (color) Netherland Dwarf (breed), as a pet. He was a little flighty at first, but settled down over time. He came with papers, but she never showed him. It seems the Blue Hemi color is fairly rare at the shows here.

We aren't getting much Spring here.

 

[Cynthia12]

Beautiful!

And yes, sexy. I love them with a bow tie.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are having so much rain here I think my chickens feet are showing webbing

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Yea I think I'll take a ride to the local station and smack our weatherman he lied to me!! I had my table saw and a few power tools outside working on my coops and it started raining!! Forecast called for nice weather till wednesday

 

[runt325]

Yea I think I'll take a ride to the local station and smack our weatherman he lied to me!! I had my table saw and a few power tools outside working on my coops and it started raining!! Forecast called for nice weather till wednesday

will u do it

 

[Beer can]

I always thought the NN were the ugliest things, never wanted them.
Now that I have them, they may have a chance of becoming my favorite chickens of all time. The chicks are the cutest and I ain't cool with 'cute' but they are. They grow at a good rate and make excellent tasty tender meaty birds. And they lay great. To top it all off, of course they do excellent in hot climates, obvious they do, but they also are just fine with our cold below zero climate. I go out to feed them this winter all bundled up and freezing and they are all flapping their wings showing their bare undersides like they are enjoying it! I seriously figured they would huddle up and scrunch up and try their darnedest to cover their bare spots, heads shrunk down like turtles, nope they are just fine in the cold, like any other chicken. I don't know how other than they must just be awesome!!?
I like the clean necks, more so because it gives you the best chance for NN on breeding and crosses;
NN is clean or few feathers on neck, Nn is having a bowtie or covered neck, nn is fully feathered.
NN x NN = 100% NN
NN x Nn = 50% NN, 50% Nn
NN x nn =100% Nn
Nn x Nn = 25% NN, 50% Nn, 25% nn
Nn x nn = 50% Nn, 50%nn

Couple of my NN girls, I like fully naked



And my whites, with a fibro silkie/ j giant cross

I set 34 naked neck eggs yesterday. About a 1/4 of the eggs are from the fibro, really hoping I get some from her. Whites are with white, the other two are with a huge, way bigger red black cockerel, and he's cool, don't like that white, he's a dick, and retarded, keeps attacking my boots and never stops. I'd like to cull him but such a nice 'looking' white I can't, soon crossing him with CX,


The red/black I have not many pics, didn't plan on keeping him, the white is meaty but the red/black is twice his size, old pic when he was young cockerel pic, should see him now, pic doesn't do him justice, he's much bigger. And he doesn't attack me, but does do the whole side step thing like he wants to bring me into his harem Lol!

Love the naked necks!

There is not a better dual purpose out there IMHO....

 

[Cynthia12]

I always thought the NN were the ugliest things, never wanted them.
Now that I have them, they may have a chance of becoming my favorite chickens of all time. The chicks are the cutest and I ain't cool with 'cute' but they are. They grow at a good rate and make excellent tasty tender meaty birds. And they lay great. To top it all off, of course they do excellent in hot climates, obvious they do, but they also are just fine with our cold below zero climate. I go out to feed them this winter all bundled up and freezing and they are all flapping their wings showing their bare undersides like they are enjoying it! I seriously figured they would huddle up and scrunch up and try their darnedest to cover their bare spots, heads shrunk down like turtles, nope they are just fine in the cold, like any other chicken. I don't know how other than they must just be awesome!!?
I like the clean necks, more so because it gives you the best chance for NN on breeding and crosses;
NN is clean or few feathers on neck, Nn is having a bowtie or covered neck, nn is fully feathered.
NN x NN = 100% NN
NN x Nn = 50% NN, 50% Nn
NN x nn =100% Nn
Nn x Nn = 25% NN, 50% Nn, 25% nn
Nn x nn = 50% Nn, 50%nn

Couple of my NN girls, I like fully naked



And my whites, with a fibro silkie/ j giant cross

I set 34 naked neck eggs yesterday. About a 1/4 of the eggs are from the fibro, really hoping I get some from her. Whites are with white, the other two are with a huge, way bigger red black cockerel, and he's cool, don't like that white, he's a dick, and retarded, keeps attacking my boots and never stops. I'd like to cull him but such a nice 'looking' white I can't, soon crossing him with CX,


The red/black I have not many pics, didn't plan on keeping him, the white is meaty but the red/black is twice his size, old pic when he was young cockerel pic, should see him now, pic doesn't do him justice, he's much bigger. And he doesn't attack me, but does do the whole side step thing like he wants to bring me into his harem Lol!

Love the naked necks!

There is not a better dual purpose out there IMHO....

I have found out that I like them too, after having said, I would never own one of those ugly things! Ha...they are cute babies! I am glad I just found out how to recognize just what kind of NN I have...a NN or Nn...which is my favorite, and the nn. Hmmm, learn something new every day!
Loving your whites!
And you are right about them being so tough. I was surprised. I have a little SG..I've shown on here..the smooth Nn type.. and she has done so well through two winters. I usually keep my silkies .. SG's in a certain coop and run for the winter. I decided to see how she would do. She is just fine! Went broody the last bit of winter. I would take her off every day just so she would eat, drink and poo. Kept her weight up pretty good doing that. Just let her go back to her spot until the snow was off the ground, then made her go out to the grass. Wasn't long with the nice weather we had for a while for her to come out of it. She just started laying again. Lays me some pretty good sized eggs for such a small girl! I was pleasantly surprised, and she lays often when she isn't broody. Broody..silkie in her that gets to her.

 

[chickisoup]

 

[Peep_Show]

Inspired by NotAFarm's weekend chore list, I spent my weekend doing Spring planting. Of course, it wasn't just planting. It was loading bags of compost, spreading bags of compost, churning compost into soil, planting seeds, and then fashioning critter deterrents as we've got quail and rabbits that would enjoy the tender seedlings of peas, beets and radishes. Knees are now trashed. Luckily our 70-degree days are giving way to the more seasonal rain showers scheduled for this week, so I think I'll have a little sofa time and magazine catch-up.....more my speed.