Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[ca]

My NNs are 12 weeks old. No eggs yet. But we are getting there.

This is some weird coloring...

got two of these

 

[hipeatall]

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Very pretty naked necks... and very naked!!! they are really lovely!
My NN girls started laying at 20 weeks and compared to all the other breeds I've had... I thought that was early

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[Kev]

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Sure, have a dozen boxed and wrapped up with a bow on top for you.

p.s. happy to see you're enjoying the bantams!

 

[Kev]

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I guess that is kinda cute, complete with pink towel and tissue paper!

OK how many eggs you want?

 

[Kev]

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Asking me? Hmm.. don't know how many.. maybe 15- 20? the father of those was not NN so a lot of them were not cute(as in not naked necked) this time.

 

[Kev]

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Kev i want to pick up the black one and love and squeeze it and call it George! Soooo cute -

Haha! That was as cute as the baby itself!

 

[Kev]

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Thanks Lisa! Not as fabulous as your very naked splash one though! How's that one doing?

 

[Kev]

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Nice birds. Where did they come from? Is that dark one a cockerel? Wondering if the light colored feathers on wing are the rooster feathers coming in.

 

[pgpoultry]

Lovely chicks, but 12 weeks seems a bit premature to be expecting eggs.

One of my NN girls started to lay 3 weeks ago (at 26 weeks), the other (29 weeks) hasn't started yet. My cockerel,Mort, has had septic arthritis and is far from back on his stride, but he didn't start crowing until about 22 weeks. Maybe my birds are a bit slow, though, as we have had very dark days and lots of rain after an intensely cold period. they are all very red faced, though.

On a slightly different note my stone of Splash/Red Pyle Brahma roo and my Blue Partridge Brahma cockerel are both treading the girls, so I should be able to hatch some of those feathery footed naked necked ones soon. However I will get the poultry saddles out ASAP as those Brahma boys are HUGE.

 

[Nat123]

I had one of those before but unfortunately it was attacked by other chickens and killed it. How I wish that naked neck chicken had feathers on the head and neck at that time so at least the injury might not be as bad as it was