Our venture into raising rare breed chickens is not off to the greatest of starts. Much like the piglets the we had less than a desirable number of live chicks from the 12 eggs we put in the incubator, one live Transylvania Naked Neck to be precise. As a control I did put in around 30 other of our own eggs which were of a mixed variety of which around 25 hatch, and all but one survived after hatching which I think is a pretty good survival rate.
The Naked Neck, although very ugly looking have allegedly the finest quality of eating meat of all poultry.
The Eggs where shipped from a supplier in New South Wales and when I performed the candle test, thats when you're in a dark room and shine a light through the egg to see if there is anything happening inside only three of the Naked Neck eggs seemed to be fertilized. Two never hatched..
So after a quick discussion with the supplier they happily shipped me another dozen eggs which should hatch next week.
So the single Naked neck that did hatch is with his other surrogate buddies out in the chicken shed waiting for me to build the pen that will allow them to spend most of their happy days out in the paddocks.
For further info on the Naked Necks
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