Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[sharkman]

Very cool Kass, has it got some FM in it? Add me to the list of want them!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

He's adorable! Now that could be my house-chicken! We have a big 'lounge room' with flag stone flooring....I doubt he could fly up onto the furniture, tv etc....

 

[Kassaundra]

Very cool Kass, has it got some FM in it? Add me to the list of want them!!!

Yes, he has fm too, not as dark as some of my others though (regular nn chicks not naked chicks)

 

[hildar]

Here is Rudy today at 6 days old

I wonder do they get sunburned??? Seems to me as though they would with no feathers to cover them.

 

[Kassaundra]

I wonder do they get sunburned??? Seems to me as though they would with no feathers to cover them.

Yes, they have skin and it can get sunburned. That is why the fibro gene was added to reduce the sunburn risk, they would have to stay out in the sun and their skin would end up "tanning" like any other sun worshiper. My chickens at least in the hot parts of the days seldom stay out in the sun, they run from shade patch to shade patch.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

2-week-old and 3-week-old chicks out for a day in the big cardboard box. Can you see the Naked Necks, they are there : )

 

[SlipsWife]

Ok, so from what I've seen/read/been told/understand on NN genetics, I'm not going to get clean neck chicks from breeding any of the chicks I've gotten from hatcheries. They've all had either bowties or bibs. I have one hen that appears to have a clean neck but I know she use to have 2 feathers on her neck that more than likely were plucked off. We have a new cockerel that looks like he's going to have a bow tie, 3 feather on each side. One hen with a huge bib and lastly a new pullet that appears to be a clean neck but I'm pretty sure she had a feather or two at some point, I'm pretty sure as a chick she had a fluffy spot...

I don't mind hatchery stock, I just really want clean necks. If I keep ordering NN from different hatcheries, will I ever get a couple? Should I order hatching eggs? I'm pretty sure from what I've read, if I remember correctly, even clean neck to clean neck will only have a % of clean necks?

NN do not sell well here. Even sexed and 8 weeks old they are slow to sell. I literally ended up making someone by a couple because they wanted so many of the EE pullets and weren't willing to take any cockerels, it was suppose to be a trio, that I told them only if they bought 2 of the NN pullets. There's one lady that bought one and came back and bought 2 more but doesn't have room for anymore. The other 2 sold because someone really wanted more pullets than what I had left of the other group so they went ahead and bought a couple. I stated in my ad their purpose and how they laid all winter for us, without extra light and that we will always have a couple of NN, still a no go.

So, all of that was to explain how much I would LOVE to breed them and buy them from everywhere and hatch eggs from all over and have a number of NN projects and go NN crazy but, I can't because no one will buy them and I will become to attached and not be able to process them and there will be so many NN's on our property they would be able to see us from space...

Do I just need to love the ones I have and get over a couple of extra feathers here and there?

 

[SlipsWife]

Here is Rudy today at 6 days old

I can't even begin to tell you how much I love that little chick and I've never even met it!

I just thought I was jealous of your NN's and then Rudy came along and I'm Hulk green with envy over here!

S/he definitely hatched in the right home though and is lucky to have someone who is so willing to help with all of the little bumps and extra care its needed!

 

[Kassaundra]

I need to get my husband to take a short video of the feeding frenzy w/ this little guy in the thick of it stealing hunks of egg from the bigger ones.

 

[Oldmomma]

I must have missed the explanation somewhere so Rudy has no feathers at all? Reminds me of my sun conure who began to loose his feathers. He was called Chewbaca for the 10 yrs we owned him until one day writhing in the bottom of his cage in what I thought was death throes, HE laid an egg! Lol were we surprised. Best luck to your adorable chick. Now I need to go check on my flock.