Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[brahmabreeder]

She's probably going off of attitude at this point. Plus the boys tend to have thicker legs.

 

[Kassaundra]

Kassaundra,
HOW Can You tell which are Boys ? so early ? am I'm looking for Crowns or saddles ?

What I am looking at in my chicks is behavior, combs and color. It is waaaaaaaaaaay to early for saddle feathers those won't show for months. This early combs can be tricky, you can't be 100% off combs alone especially since I have a mixture of comb types. Careful watching of behavior, not just chest bumping b/c they all do that, but watching how they respond to unexpected noise or things like that, do they tend to stand at attention, or continue w/ what they were doing or hug the ground closer, not just one time, but consistently. And color/pattern, this is especially telling after you have hatched several chicks in your own lines, if you pay attention you can start to see patterns of what kind of colors/patterns in the down made into boys in the past.

 

[Kassaundra]

In MY chicks, the ones I see daily and clearly and hatch out here, I am near 100% even at early gender guesses, when I decide it is a specific gender. I can't tell w/ every chick every time, but once I have decided I am usually right.

 

[Kev]

Kassaundra,
HOW Can You tell which are Boys ? so early ? am I'm looking for Crowns or saddles ?

Just from the first picture, would have guessed a male, because that looks like a very cocky posture, with wings being dropped. Roosters like to do that behavior.

My experience with hatchery stock NN were the boys tended to look big boned, with big bodies, little or no tail feathers for a good while and the down gets sparse as they grow so fast yet don't really grow much feathers. That chick fits this. also not too sure because the pictures are a little out of focus, it seems the feathers on middle of wing are already getting dark in the second last picture.. hatchery NN roos tend to be darker than hens of the same color.

Girls tended to grow wing and tail feather quickly, at your chick's age they would have pom pom of a tail.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Dang, y'all are good.

 

[Kassaundra]

She's probably going off of attitude at this point. Plus the boys tend to have thicker legs.

Leg size especially at the really young ages is hard for me. They have to be about 3-4 weeks generally for me to see that and then they have to be in a group where I can compare.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Some of you know, I started with Naked Necks for the purpose of taking them as 'far and away' from ASOP as possible. Now I'm trying to take the same line of birds back toward standard of perfection.
Except, that (single comb brown egg layers) just by itself is kind of boring to me : ) So I'm keeping frizzle going. These are a week old-ish.
Black and splash. They should be contenders : )

 

[Kassaundra]

Some of you know, I started with Naked Necks for the purpose of taking them as 'far and away' from ASOP as possible. Now I'm trying to take the same line of birds back toward standard of perfection.
Except, that (single comb brown egg layers) just by itself is kind of boring to me : ) So I'm keeping frizzle going. These are a week old-ish.
Black and splash. They should be contenders : )

Very cute, but your not ending the Dipsy Goths are you?????

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Oh no no no, these are just *another* project. The DipsyGoths are a permanent fixture here : )

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh no no no, these are just *another* project. The DipsyGoths are a permanent fixture here : )

Then awesome, you had me worried.