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Ok, I just HAVE to ask - - WHY should sex links never have been bred? (was searching through the thread on which breed lays the most eggs and this peaked my curiosity! lol)
Now, my REAL reason for this post - -
I have 2 Turken (Naked Neck) hens . . . they were given to me last spring (2013) as OLD, RETIRED (told me they don't lay anymore) and UGLY - I needed something to whittle down the grasshopper population that was epidemic proportions then - I said as long as they eat the bugs I don't care what they look like. My neighbor brought them over about an hour later. They were, indeed, about the ugliest chickens I'd ever seen, but she DID warn me, so I laughed and set them out in the back. They immediately went to work on the bugs.
I've had these girls for a year now and I have to say - - they are the sweetest natured girls I've ever seen! They follow me around and they sing to me, soft little noises that just make me say awww! AND, even though I was told they are old (at least 4 - 5 years old) and told that they are retired/don't lay anymore - I had them for about 3 days when I noticed the first huge brown egg at the base of their night roosting tree (I don't have a coop although now they roost in my barn on the top wooden rail of the mini-Jersey's stall). The next day there were two large brown eggs there and they have continued to lay between 3 and 4 eggs every two days, even through the winter here in Texas!! (BONUS - they made huge in-roads on the grasshopper population - free ranging on the bugs kept their craws stuffed! and made the most wonderful dark orange yolked ex-large eggs I've ever tasted!)
Bottom line: If old, retired Turken girls are this sweet-natured, this personable and lay like this - - I want a dozen more just like them!
So, if ANYONE in or around East Dallas (I'm actually in Commerce which is due east out I-30 about 65 miles) or actually ANY where in or around the DFW metroplex (I'll drive to you!) has any Turken chicks, pullets or young hens and a rooster, I'd love to talk to you about buying some!
I look forward to hearing from you! Send me a PM with a way for me to contact you or a way for me to send you my contact info.
Thanks,
Knowon
PS ~ here are my old retired girls:
This is Lucy (I think it is mandatory that everyone who owns chickens have ONE hen named Lucy!)
This is Ethel and Lucy on the right, catching another bug!
Lucy singing - she is about the sweetest hen I've ever had.
Ethel and Lucy hard at work depopulating the farm of grasshoppers, june bugs and anything else that was edible.
Here are my votes:
- Dark Brown Leghorns
- Other Leghorns
- Most Hamburgs
- OEPFs
- Campines
- Dorkings
(In about that order)
- Sexlinks (they should have never started breeding these things...)
Ok, I just HAVE to ask - - WHY should sex links never have been bred? (was searching through the thread on which breed lays the most eggs and this peaked my curiosity! lol)
Now, my REAL reason for this post - -
I have 2 Turken (Naked Neck) hens . . . they were given to me last spring (2013) as OLD, RETIRED (told me they don't lay anymore) and UGLY - I needed something to whittle down the grasshopper population that was epidemic proportions then - I said as long as they eat the bugs I don't care what they look like. My neighbor brought them over about an hour later. They were, indeed, about the ugliest chickens I'd ever seen, but she DID warn me, so I laughed and set them out in the back. They immediately went to work on the bugs.
I've had these girls for a year now and I have to say - - they are the sweetest natured girls I've ever seen! They follow me around and they sing to me, soft little noises that just make me say awww! AND, even though I was told they are old (at least 4 - 5 years old) and told that they are retired/don't lay anymore - I had them for about 3 days when I noticed the first huge brown egg at the base of their night roosting tree (I don't have a coop although now they roost in my barn on the top wooden rail of the mini-Jersey's stall). The next day there were two large brown eggs there and they have continued to lay between 3 and 4 eggs every two days, even through the winter here in Texas!! (BONUS - they made huge in-roads on the grasshopper population - free ranging on the bugs kept their craws stuffed! and made the most wonderful dark orange yolked ex-large eggs I've ever tasted!)
Bottom line: If old, retired Turken girls are this sweet-natured, this personable and lay like this - - I want a dozen more just like them!
So, if ANYONE in or around East Dallas (I'm actually in Commerce which is due east out I-30 about 65 miles) or actually ANY where in or around the DFW metroplex (I'll drive to you!) has any Turken chicks, pullets or young hens and a rooster, I'd love to talk to you about buying some!
I look forward to hearing from you! Send me a PM with a way for me to contact you or a way for me to send you my contact info.
Thanks,
Knowon
PS ~ here are my old retired girls:
This is Lucy (I think it is mandatory that everyone who owns chickens have ONE hen named Lucy!)
This is Ethel and Lucy on the right, catching another bug!
Lucy singing - she is about the sweetest hen I've ever had.
Ethel and Lucy hard at work depopulating the farm of grasshoppers, june bugs and anything else that was edible.
