Author Topic: Naked Necks  (Read 4867 times)

Rhodie

  • Joined May 2010
Naked Necks
« on: April 01, 2012, 07:17:58 pm »
Is there any demand for these? the last of the broilers imported from France are laying reasonable sized eggs should I hatch some or just add them to the sale eggs?

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2012, 07:40:16 pm »
market them as "easy for first time"  kills ... you can easy see where to neck them!
And the one we had tasted delicious :yum:

They have a certain novelty value too :)
Little Blue

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
  • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2012, 09:17:06 pm »
Have you seen the cross between a naked neck and a silkie?

http://www.gundichicks.com/CHICKEN_INFO.html

Scroll down to 'showgirl'.
Not entirely sure I think it's a wise idea, but they sure are cute!
We'll turn the dust to soil,
Turn the rust of hate back into passion.
It's not water into wine
But it's here, and it's happening.
Massive,
but passive.


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Mel

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Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2012, 09:23:41 pm »
Have you seen the cross between a naked neck and a silkie?

http://www.gundichicks.com/CHICKEN_INFO.html

Scroll down to 'showgirl'.
Not entirely sure I think it's a wise idea, but they sure are cute!
Now they are very cute ;D

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
  • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2012, 09:33:41 pm »
Aren't they just?!
I wish I could justify having some, but I suspect they don't find winter too much fun and I need my lot to be relatively hardy, they look too delicate for the  harsher weather. :D
We'll turn the dust to soil,
Turn the rust of hate back into passion.
It's not water into wine
But it's here, and it's happening.
Massive,
but passive.


Bring the peace back

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2012, 10:05:17 pm »
A friend had me hatch some for him, I've never seen such odd looking chicks  :D Still, they do seem quite popular...... (mystified  :D)

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 08:18:50 am »
Have you seen the cross between a naked neck and a silkie?

http://www.gundichicks.com/CHICKEN_INFO.html

Scroll down to 'showgirl'.
Not entirely sure I think it's a wise idea, but they sure are cute!

They don't look real! I would love some of these though I suspect you would get a lot of variations from a clutch, they wouldn't all be like this one :chook:

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 10:24:47 am »
The showgirl is lovely, so cute
Sally
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little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 06:23:52 pm »
My auntie keeps something like that ... over her toilet rolls!!
:D
Little Blue

chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
  • Gascony, France
Re: Naked Necks
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2012, 03:14:52 pm »
The French naked necks are not the much smaller English purebred version, which originates from Romania. The French birds are broilers, created by crosing the tasty TNN with something else -no-one know what. Their shape is quite different, not the elegant bird you see over here. They don't lay that well. What would be intesting is a cross of the French hybrid with the Romanian original to get a bigger dual purpose Utility -project for France when we get there as we are taking a top quality breeding quartet over with us.

 

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