Red Neckers or Silver Belles are two names for the Crested NN EEers I have come up with. Of course the project is new and no chicks have been produced yet, but I am pretty excited about it. lol
Well in order to get green eggs, one or both parents must carry a brown egg gene. That increases your likelihood of producing a percentage of brown egg layers which is typical of EEers. I will likely try to weed out the brown egg gene the NNer cockerel carries so I get birds pure for egg color...
Frizzles are a novelty I have never wanted to keep since they can be so tender in the winter. If a bird can't handle our crazy weather and winters, it can't stay here. I am not going to have house chickens or make heated chicken condos to keep adult birds. A frizzled or silkied chicken isn't...
He did, and he was a good bird. I will actually be revamping my Legbars since they are strictly a layer breed for us for our own use. I am going to put the Crele project rooster over some Legbar hens in the spring after I have enough Crele Leghorn project chicks from him, to freshen up the...
Yep I missed the part of his resurrection. Well that is good news! What a relief! But see if you didn't have any of his sons and needed him bad, he would have really REALLY died. That is the ways of the chicken.