Naked Neck/Turken Thread - Page 345

This is my naked neck Gobble. You can see he has the feather pores on the sides of his neck, like 5 or 6 maybe but he never actually grows feathers from them. I wonder why? They don't look pecked or ingrown. He had some chick fluff there when he was young... He is about 3 1/2 months.

I love naked necks!

these are my nn roos

Any idea what a red turken roo and a buff easter egger female chicks would look like?

Thanks, Kevin has a pea comb. I wondered that about him. The lady I purchased him from stated he was full 100% NN, BUT.... she also had Easter Eggers running around the backyard as well. That is funny you picked that up. Good eyes, but at least I am not wrong for thinking that myself. 

Reddish-buffish, roos likely darker than hens.  If the EE has a pea comb, they will have pea combs- either all or half depending if she's pure or not for the pea comb.
 

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Originally Posted by Vamvakas 

Any idea what a red turken roo and a buff easter egger female chicks would look like?

I agree, handsome bird.  I do think it's likely a case of picking though- it seems like he has some pin feathers just starting to grow in the second picture and the first picture has a hole that looks like when a pinfeather has been recently pulled out. Pin feathers are just so exposed on NN  with tiny bowties... pin feathers are very delicious to all chickens.. The NN I had with only one or two feathers on each side of neck were especially prone to losing them while in pinfeather stage.. if they happened to be isolated by themselves(in broody hen cages for example) or on free range they would grow out completely.

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Originally Posted by cielo 

This is my naked neck Gobble. You can see he has the feather pores on the sides of his neck, like 5 or 6 maybe but he never actually grows feathers from them. I wonder why? They don't look pecked or ingrown. He had some chick fluff there when he was young... He is about 3 1/2 months.

 

I love naked necks!

Nacked necks are my favorite breed... My mom told me in Greece they are a very popular breed and almost all of europe... They even use turkens for chicken egg farms over there.

Here's one of NN, posted her pic before, but she looks like Megan Fox in a chicken version...