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So would I be better off to try to get them on scratch grains and regular feed? I think the mostly like pecking the ground- instincts I guess.

I've discussed here that my NN Rooster absolutely loves corn. He will not touch the feed I give the egg layers, and demands with what ever length of stare down time it takes that I give him corn. Well, a couple of weeks ago I had a situation where two of my chicks were attacked by the...

I had a hatch a while back that yielded 4 NN out of 16 chicks. I have one that is not a NN that was injured and in caring for it I have noticed that it's feathers are very thin in density. When it turns its head to the right , there is a line of featherless skin about a half inch wide on the...

I went out this morning and noticed one of the chicks not eating. It had all the feathers pecked off its head and is in issoation now I guess that is what happened to the other one and they didn't stop till the head was gone. Now one of the Rhodebars is acting bossy I must have some bad...

One of my 5 week old NN RIR chicks was dead this morning. Not only that they ate it's head- looked like it had been cut off. Upon review of the flock I noticed the little white ones butting up to the others, so in their own pen they go and I will let them settle it out themselves, and then it...

I've got several in meat pin now. I thought the way I read your comment that it was a bad taste. I heard the skin cooks like you explained.

What is the taste difference with NN that you refer to Ant Farm?

Not all naked necks carry the gene? Can you elaborate on that please?

What you can do is chose the stock that you like and breed for what you want. A big thing I found with the Cornish is that with time they are challenged to breed due to the short legs and how their body is shaped. Research concluded that the hatcheries bred in longer legs and different builds...

I keep mine in a hutch and have never had a rat problem that I know of. Out of site out of mind is ok with me on rats though. These Cream Legbars, are they a cross breed like a Rhodebar?

You are not going be getting a true Cornish from MM. Legs are too long, etc for real Cornish. They have mixed in other breeds for better egg laying and mating. As far as only having NN roosters, why do you think a NN rooster will be better than a NN hen? I wanted a rooster specifically so...

My NN rooster is the first one back to the hutch in the evening if the others decide to make it a long day. He has taught my non NN hens to forage. He has also taught them to stay away from the road by about 75 feet. As far as the Cornish Cross, a think a lot of us are wanting something like...

Besides the naked neck and less feathers, what traits seem to carry with the NN gene? I notice the NN in my group of chicks seem to act differently than the others, but I can't quite pen down in what ways other than the seem more inquisitive and less likely to try to play superman and jump out...

Don't name your groceries is important. Second, being I keep hens I try to make sure the chicks are used to me but not pets You don't have to baby them for them to be tame Actually seems towork opposite. My best listeners were simply fed and not scared as chicks. Babying spoils them and you.

My NN rooster came from MM and has clean neck but only throws 25% NN when bred to my non NN hens, and they all have bowties. But the boy is very fertile and hits one hen every 25 minutes.

He has few feathers on his neck and I keep him collared so if there was a spot of feathers it would have grown out by now. With that said, the NN offspring all have a tuft of feathers in the middle of the neck. Rooster is a Black Rooster from Murray Mc....

Genetics wise, if a rooster throws 25% NN offspring, is he himself a Nn? And also, in a recent hatch I noticed that none of my Leghorn/NN crosses were NN. Was that just a "by chance" type thing or do leghorn crosses not get NN gene?

up to u.

Why don't you hatch the eggs you have from when she was alive as one may have been hers?

Sorry to be so green, but what is fibro and what is melanistic?