Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

draye-

Half, in both sexes.

 

[Kev]

I don't really know but I would say so as most Madagascars I know of come from there. I got my eggs off of Ebay from Florida and North Carolina and Hatched them. I have pictures of the parent birds.

Seems I've missed responding to your post- all naked necked birds are good here, so welcome! Those are nice looking birds... that rooster in front of last pic has a very weird comb... never seen one quite like it. are they supposed to be pea or walnut combed?

 

[Kev]

Ooops, I should have clarified that the black chicks are from a different hen, not the legbars. I just had them all out tonight and they ALL look the same. LOL My legbar hens are pretty heavily barred, so all my legbar chicks are barred. Some hatched with classic legbar pullet markings, some looked like cockerels, and others were wheaten with gorgeous eyeliner. Now they are all barred with pink heads and ambiguous combs. I guess they'll keep me waiting.

Ah! you sure surprised me in the genetic sense! LOL

Barring is sex linked, so if the rooster was not barred over legbars then all barred chicks are male.

I realize that it seems legbar as the breed in USA seem to be not exactly consistent in their barring right now.. which makes it interesting as one big feature about the breed was autosexing. Is that what you're saying about the pure legbar chicks?

 

[Kev]

My grandma culled a hen yesterday and she had 3.7 kg cleaned, with no feathers or inside. She was huge! I hope that some of her eggs are under the broodies she sat and that they will hatch!

Yeah! why was she culled? Are the other hens big too?

My very first naked neck was a chick from hatchery as part of order. Ordered just one, a pullet just in case I did not like the breed... Big mistake I know, lol

That chick grew into a huge hen, very tame very friendly. Loved her. I never weighed her, she may have been 9 pounds- she was easily heavier than the orpingtons, rocks etc which average 6ish I believe.... I thought all of them were like her so I put off ordering more from the same hatchery. It just happened I did not hatch any chicks from her either... was going through different breeds to see what I liked.....

When I went back to naked necks several years later, I was very disappointed to discover none of the chicks from later orders from hatcheries grew into the big bird like that first hen.... Regret very much not hatching and keeping a line straight from her.

 

[Kev]

Bought this pretty little naked neck bantam hen the other day. I would really like to get into breeding naked neck oegb. Anyone have an opinion on what color oegb roo I should breed her to to get started? She's all white with just a brush of grey on the top of her head

It depends on what colors you like. Which colors do you like?

Some people like solid colors, some like rich patterns, other like all mixed up colors...

If you like the whites and blacks, you can breed with solid black oegb. A solid black will help keep the white crisp, especially if you know the blacks are silver based(any color leak shows as white, not golden or red), this is because sometimes a white based on reds can show brassiness.

If you want whites with clear yellow or white legs, cross with either whites with the same leg color or with cuckoo oegb. Cuckoo likes to clear the legs of color, so it can help whites get sparkling clear legs. mind, you cannot get good blue or green legs on birds with barring though....

 

[Kev]

Does anyone here know if they would do well in colder weather like say WA state weather? I have a EE/NN/feral game mix and I'm wondering if I moved up north and took him/her with me if he/she would be alright? He/she has a pea comb but seems a tiny bit lighter in body than pure NNs.

Hi and welcome! That's a pretty girl. I just cannot imagine moving to WA.. born and raised so. Calif native here... very used to DRY lol.

 

[ochochicas]

Quote: Washington sucks most of the time. You spend 9 - 10 months of the year in misery suffering through cold, wet, wind, dark, gray gloomy skies, frozen, swampy, etc. Then spring comes around May (about now) and you think "wow, this is the most beautiful place on earth." That notion is tainted by the previous 9 months of misery one endured. When I sell the house and get a new job it will be some place warmer.

 

[Kev]

Kev,
I will be out in San Diego the beginning of July and driving back to Florida, Do you think you will have any naked chickens available? Maybe young cockerels, one in FM and one in normal?
Rob

The naked babies have been selling have just two now and one is in the process of being sold, but maybe I could try to save others or hatch for you? I'll PM you.

Florida should be good for them!

 

[Kev]

Cute name!

What did you call the rest

Haha, I don't name most of the birds but the first scaleless got names because they are so special.... okay, just because I love them...


Precious, a little older:



Isn't she just so Precious?!

Golem(black one), Dilo (after Dilophosaurus- a double crested dino, the "spitter" in Jurassic Park. He has a double comb) and Ivar the Scaleless



Ivar, Dilo and Golem:

 

[Phill98]

Yeah!  why was she culled?  Are the other hens big too?

My very first naked neck was a chick from hatchery as part of order.  Ordered just one, a pullet just in case I did not like the breed...  Big mistake I know, lol

That chick grew into a huge hen, very tame very friendly. Loved her.  I never weighed her, she may have been 9 pounds- she was easily  heavier than the orpingtons, rocks etc which average 6ish I believe....   I thought all of them were like her so I put off ordering more from the same hatchery. It just happened I did not hatch any chicks from her either... was going through different breeds to see what I liked.....

When I went back to naked necks several years later, I was very disappointed to discover none of the chicks from later orders from hatcheries grew into the big bird like that first hen....  Regret very much not hatching and keeping a line straight from her.

She was culled because she was 7 years old, not laying well, not even moving much and the main reason is that the rooster broke her leg and we also needed a chicken for soup for my sister's chrism.