Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[hipeatall]

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Very pretty birds and very naked necks!

Thanks! I have to get a picture of my other one to show you. He is huge for his age and VERY pretty. Problem is he is also VERY mean to his fellow chickens and therefore separated. I am afraid it's in the genes so he might end up in BBQ sauce if I can't use him for breeding. He has a little more than just a fluff on his neck. So maybe he is not purebread? Pic will tell it all (next weekend, promise).

I look forward to seeing pictures of him

Sadly, I had the same issues with mean naked necks... I hatched out 4 boys and 3 girls last year. The 3 hens are absolutely lovely, some of the sweetest and tamest chickens I've ever owned... but the roos were mean even as wee little chicks - I had to set up separate brooders to keep them from killing each other

. I ended up just keeping the hens.
Maybe (hopefully!!!) your roo will mellow out as he gets older... fingers crossed!

 

[hipeatall]

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I honestly don't know the answer... but I bet someone here will be able to help! I know alot of breeders are working really hard to get them just right for showing.

 

[bockbock2008]

I have some firzzled NN going into lockdown tomorrow!

 

[hipeatall]

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LUCKY! My frizzled / nn pen just started laying again... and of course the incubator is FULL!

 

[Kev]

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If you're asking about the naked neck trait, the birds with small bowties, only a couple feathers on each side or no bowtie at all are the ones pure for NN gene.

As for breed/type.... "purebred" does not mean terribly much generally in poultry. For showing, if the bird matches the description in the Standard, it's good to go, even if it was re-creation from several breeds. If it quacks, walks like a duck.... Some of the recognized colors in some breeds have started out without any blood from the 'main color'. Example: white rocks IIRC(at least early on or some lines..), were made without any crosses with Barred Rocks.

Hatcheries concentrate on hatching quantity, not quality.. usually none or very few of them will win at a large show. For some reason, hatcheries deliberately mix colors in their NN stock so they could be any color or pattern, however it seems majority of them are buff, orangish or red with black tails. There probably have been some outcrosses too due to variable leg color- NN are supposed to have yellow legs but white, slate, willow exist.

IF the standard calls for buffs with black tails, then many of them could be considered purebred, because they match the standard. You would just need to select for yellow legs and small bowties out of those and you'd be good to go for pure bred buff NN.

Or if you have a color preference, such as black and none of your NN are black or solid black(a lot of hatchery blacks show color leaking due to mixed color breeding) you could breed a NN to a black breed with the 'right type' and recreate a pure bred black NN. Black legs are allowed in black NN, but still need the yellow skin.. be best to outcross to a yellow skinned black for this reason, one less thing to worry about.

That said... most hatchery NN are pretty good producers, good layers and fairly heavy roosters. It would not be such a bad thing to create a 'pure' line out of them if show stock is not available.

 

[ca]

Kev,
Thank you so much for that reply! Although I did not ask the question, I feel a lot better about this topic. Sometimes a post can be very discouraging. Yours makes me want to keep going and get the best out of my chickens!

 

[mamawolf544]

Ok here is my Boy and some of his ladies. The little blue girl I hatched from Nava. She is going into a pen with the son that looks just like his Dad.
I cant take a good pic for anything.

 

[Nava]

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so where is the little blue girl?

 

[mamawolf544]

in the 2nd pic to the right of him. I told you she is a very beautiful powder blue

They just wont sit still for me.

And in the first pic she is on the far right. She is just Beautiful Nava, I wish my picture skills did her justice.

 

[Nava]

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OK, I see it now, she looks mostly white but I can tell the light blue on top of her head and on her body, I had one just like her