Utah!

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ya'all are scaring me.  I know now that I have stepped over the threshold of addiction.  I do get into my hobbies, my duck pen is going to be pretty big when its done and I know now, a chicken and maybe a rabbit palace can not be far behind.  Then an area for incubating and and and and.....


    It is nice to be around fellow addicts. 

You are in good company here. ALL enablers, and no one will judge. The only people on earth that understand me I have met on here! Good friends

 

[the-bird-man]

love being around so many chicken addicts i have rabbits too. one day i may do quail and i have thought about muscovie ducks. the addiction is real lol

 

[abkoldewyn]

Speaking of bunnies... Does or has anyone ever kept their chickens and rabbits together in the same run? We would like to get a rabbit and are concidering putting it with our birds. I've read articles about it, and apparently they do really well together. What do y'all think?

 

[Neuport]

That's what we plan to do

 

[the-bird-man]

Speaking of bunnies... Does or has anyone ever kept their chickens and rabbits together in the same run? We would like to get a rabbit and are concidering putting it with our birds. I've read articles about it, and apparently they do really well together. What do y'all think?

i had a rabbit do that, she slept in the coop and everything. just gotta be careful because too much chicken food is not good for rabbits. but right now i have a rabbit hutch in my run where they can all run around but the rabbits have their own space in their hutch. also be careful as some bucks will get too friendly with some chickens lol. chickens clean up after the rabbits too. oh and if you get rabbits look into rabbit nipple waterers, its so easy and you can get a bunch on amazon for cheap

 

[iPickYupik]

Actual NN Turkens are considered cold hearty and quite durable. The mixes seem to do just fine in the cold.

I blame Cynthia for my affection for NN, she started hatching showgirls on here and that was it for me. Then the LF NN grew on me, I love them. The only downside for me was they lay tan eggs so I got a NN mix from Sundance that was from her EE frizzled roo and NN turken, and lays blue eggs....lol now I can make NN olive egger babies from that hen and my Marans roo. ...and half are frizzled to boot, Perfect! haha Maybe if I keep going back to a Marans roo with them I could get a NN chocolate egger

How cool on the egg colors! What an LF? What's a bow tie? Will the eggs we got from you possibly be frizzled?

 

[Cynthia12]

Speaking of bunnies... Does or has anyone ever kept their chickens and rabbits together in the same run? We would like to get a rabbit and are concidering putting it with our birds. I've read articles about it, and apparently they do really well together. What do y'all think?

I have a friend that does. No problems.

 

[Cynthia12]

Lisa, I've hatched NN's from blue/green eggs.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

How cool on the egg colors! What an LF? What's a bow tie? Will the eggs we got from you possibly be frizzled?

I am going to take a stab at answering this...
LF means any standard size bird like a Naked Neck Turken. (large Fowl) or any other large bird like a RIR, EE, Orp, all the regular sized ones. Not bantam.

A Showgirl is a bantam (small) size bird....

I will try to explain, I hope this makes sense..

A "showgirl" is a NN silkie...generations back a Turken was used to get the NN gene, but the bird has been bred generations to get mostly basically a silkie with black skin, five toes, a little bantam...all the silkie traits with the exception of a naked neck. So they are two different types of birds...but they both display the Naked neck gene....bowties are the little poof of feathers on the front of the neck. Some Naked necked birds have naked all the way down, some have a patch of feathers on the front of the neck like a bowtie. Both NN Turkens LF, and Showgirls can have or not have bowties.

The eggs I gave you are a little different because I am breeding to get Showgirls and Silkies but that also may carry the frizzle gene. The eggs, came from one of two pens-- either one frizzled silkie rooster parent (Ernie), and one Naked neck silkied hen parent OR one regular (non frizzled)silkied rooster parent (Yoshi) and one Naked Neck frizzled silkie hen parent. You can't breed frizzle to frizzle, and you cant breed NN to NN or you lose the bowtie. That is why they are paired up this way.

So the babies will be either showgirls (NN Frizzle, NN silkied, NN smooth,) or Silkies (frizzled, Silkied or smooth with no Naked Neck). Naked Neck is a dominant trait and will present itself if the gene is carried...it is not recessive so if the bird has no NN they do not carry the NN gene for future generations (it won't show up down the line in offspring).

Hope that helps lol it prob sounds ridiculously confusing. I am not very good at explaining and still learning!

 

[bitsyhorse]

I'm giving him away for free now. I really need him gone today. Any takers?

wish I could have a rooster here hope you can find him a home!