Has Anyone tried a Cornish Turken Cross?

[TruthHunter]

I notice that Turkens are considered to be fairly good dual purpose
birds. The naked neck gene is dominant so it would probably be
easy to get a naked neck Cornish. The Cornish tend to have a Popped two buttons look anyway.
Here in the deeeeep south its mostly hot with occasional spring days
in "winter" so a lightly dressed chicken makes sense.
I wonder if commercial chicken breeding isn't a bit conservative. You'd think broiler crosses would have adopted the less feathered Turken style.

I first saw
Turkens in South America and didn't know it was genetics. I thought
they had some strange tropical disease!
With their sunburned necks they are truly "Rednecked" chickens

 

[Brunty_Farms]

They have... there is a red broiler by hubbard with a necked neck...


http://www.hubbardbreeders.com/product_leaflets/S757N.pdf

Take a male Necked neck over a female cornish.

Jeff

 

[TruthHunter]

Thanks for the Hubbard Farms link...A very interesting site

As for the Turken Line, it looks like it might be a slow grow selection.

 

[Royal Silkies]

I have some nice chicks here in mexico "Dark Cornish x Turken"

Best Regards

 

[Royal Silkies]

 

[Kev]

I live in an area with extreme summer temps- 110-120F.

Years ago the group of show stock bred cornish, the kind that are truly, broad, massive and squat, not the hatchery stock kind. They had problems with the summer time heat, with heat strokes especially in the roosters.

Crossed naked neck with them then bred naked necked ones back to pure show cornish.. they tolerated the heat much better.