Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[DesertChic]

If you have no help ...or even if you do...start with a dead chicken, just about any age will do. That will give you time to to work with the tools without fear of cutting the major arterie that runs so close to the testicles. This little test will not, in anyway make the chicken unusable as food.

OUTSTANDING advice! Thank you!

 

[DesertChic]

Simple guestion, boys or girls or both?




I think that lighter one is a pullet and another one cockrel. In second hatch there were no naked necks. On saturday we set third broody. She has 13 eggs.

The middle photo looks like a cockerel to me. The bottom photo looks like a pullet.

 

[DesertChic]

I have always found with my NNs that with the males the area behind the ears and jaw turn red really early. The females stay flesh colored. Does anyone else find this to be true?





Boys

Actually, my pullets showed this tendency just as much as the males did. In fact, two of my pullets displayed this redness weeks before my cockerels did.

 

[Flowerbh]

Actually, my pullets showed this tendency just as much as the males did. In fact, two of my pullets displayed this redness weeks before my cockerels did.

That's what I wanted to know. I guess I was just lucky that it happened that way with mine because I sold all the 'red' guys and kept the others and all the ones I kept turned out females.

 

[Kassaundra]

Actually, my pullets showed this tendency just as much as the males did. In fact, two of my pullets displayed this redness weeks before my cockerels did.

Same here

 

[LuWis]

This is lil Tiny the serama nn rooster mix

 

[LuWis]

Here is my tiny serama nn rooster mix... this is from my f4 gen

 

[LuWis]

 

[Kev]

That's what I wanted to know. I guess I was just lucky that it happened that way with mine because I sold all the 'red' guys and kept the others and all the ones I kept turned out females.

I see the same thing as Kassaundra and Desertchic.

However also wanted to say it might have been a particular thing for your line if it's consistent. I have some lines with rather reliable differences from very early on- example one line, the cockerels would develop a very deep body and the pullets would be longer bodied without the dramatically deep body with longer feathers.

However, I now have freedom and black rangers, there is a cross from these two that developed the very deep body, 'tiny winged'(short feathers) I assumed was a boy... but it's feathering out as a pullet. So now I have to keep in mind that physical look is not reliable for sexing the ranger chicks...

 

[Kev]

Simple guestion, boys or girls or both?




I think that lighter one is a pullet and another one cockrel. In second hatch there were no naked necks. On saturday we set third broody. She has 13 eggs.

My guess is same as yours- also the birds from hatchery stock tend to produce boys growing feathers a shade or two darker than the girls. Just like those chicks. Also they seem to be showing similarities to some of my lines, the boys get heavier and grow feathers slower than the girls.

Those chicks are showing a much heavier look about them than the typical large fowl NN here though! I would love to grow chicks like that here.