Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Now for the pullets:

Number 1:

Color: Splash
Dad: Blue Jersey Giant
Mom: Undetermined. Four in the run different colors.

Just in case- if there is only one blue/splash hen then she is the mother. Only way to get splashes is from both parents. Never mind if all the hens are blue/splash though lol

 

[Kev]

@draye - I love seeing all the different colors! Good idea to photo them to track progress. I'm particularly partial to the blue ones - I'm a sucker for blue coloring in a chicken...

My NN pullet "Puppy", the one that seemed to have some white feathering as a chick, is buff with black fine speckling, and black accents (including around tail) at 7 weeks, but still has white tips to many of her feathers (body and tail). @alohachickens , or anyone - does this mean she may have some mottling as a grownup girl?

My Speckled Sussex are small, but they're like golden retriever puppies. I look forward to seeing how their speckles continue to develop...

- Ant Farm

Good excuse to post pictures! I have a possible mottle also.. posted pictures of her a couple pages ago and on Aloha thread.

 

[draye]

Just in case- if there is only one blue/splash hen then she is the mother. Only way to get splashes is from both parents. Never mind if all the hens are blue/splash though lol

I had a Blue Red hen in with him. I'm supposing that is where she popped out from.

 

[Kev]

Here are the last two cockerels.

Number 9:

Color: Blue Golden Birchen
Dad: Blue Red Naked Neck
Mom: A hen from Salmon NN and EE hens.

This girl is very close in color/pattern to the mystery half pencilled hen. I would guess if you kept related males to these and bred them together they would produce amazing patterns if that's your thing. Possible even more strongly pencilled, maybe laced partridge(like in rocks), single laces etc.

Quote:
That is possible but as far as I can tell, almost zero chance for solids in these chicks. Black crossed to any colored chicken almost never throws any solids, especially in roosters.

However you can eventually hit on some solids by breeding the jersey crosses together or even back to a pure jersey or any solid black/blue chicken.

The tricky part is, much easier to get solid black hens but much harder to get solid roosters. Roosters just express more color...

Keep the ones with the least off-color, no matter if it is black, blue or splash. For example, use a solid blue rather than a black showing some off color.. (because you mentioned getting sick of the blue/splash) especially when choosing roosters.

Hatch lots of second generation chicks because there will be some salmons/wheatens, lots and lots of leaky blacks/blues and some solids.

Good luck.

 

[Kev]

I had a Blue Red hen in with him. I'm supposing that is where she popped out from.

Yeah if she's the only blue/splash then she is the mother for sure. Only way to get splash is getting blue gene from both parents.

She also seems to be throwing some chicks with good heavy builds... that's a personal preference of mine though. I like for them to be surprisingly heavy for their size, lots of meat.

 

[draye]

Yeah if she's the only blue/splash then she is the mother for sure.  Only way to get splash is getting blue gene from both parents.

She also seems to be throwing some chicks with good heavy builds...  that's a personal preference of mine though.  I like for them to be surprisingly heavy for their size, lots of meat. 

I've noticed that with this hen. She herself wasn't real big ( I recently lost her, not to predator though). I've got a nice daughter of hers from the Blue Red NN rooster that I had and she's already a good sized hen herself, January hatch. I think I have another three if hers but with the rooster she was with its hard to tell for sure if their hers or not. They have the good size on them like the otherI one, they are late May babies.

 

[FaerieChicken]

The banties we had go broody were a Black NN and a Barred NN, the eggs they hatch had a Blue Sizzle roo over them, and also a Buff NN banty with a white Silkie roo over her. There was also a Sizzle roo over a BSL egg hatched. All had five toes, and feathered feet! I had 4 NN and 4 regular, 8 total hatched, and then there were 4 that were Sizzled/frizzled, and the other 4 were regular feathered, and I think 1 of the sizzled/frizzled may have been more strange as her feathers weren't curled and they weren't silkied and they weren't really frizzled either but they were poofy and frilly. It was so much fun to see all the diversity too.

@draye do you just breed NN, or is this just a project you have going on to see how things go with the different variations? I wish I could play with them like this, it sure is fun to see the beautiful outcomes! Are there ever any opposite out comes, or deformities you see also? Like genetic deformities, perhaps like from EE having the gene that is from the Araucana and if both parents are tufted then the chicks have the 50/50 survival rate, or perhaps other things that could happen with genetic mutations, maybe irregular feathering, not necessarily coloring but the feather consistency perhaps.

 

[DesertChic]

Last three:


Number 16:

Color: Blue Gold Birchen
Dad: Blue Red Naked Neck
Mom: A hen that was 1/2 EE & 1/2 NN.

All of your NNs are gorgeous, but I have to say that I'm partial to this one.

 

[draye]

The banties we had go broody were a Black NN and a Barred NN, the eggs they hatch had a Blue Sizzle roo over them, and also a Buff NN banty with a white Silkie roo over her. There was also a Sizzle roo over a BSL egg hatched. All had five toes, and feathered feet! I had 4 NN and 4 regular, 8 total hatched, and then there were 4 that were Sizzled/frizzled, and the other 4 were regular feathered, and I think 1 of the sizzled/frizzled may have been more strange as her feathers weren't curled and they weren't silkied and they weren't really frizzled either but they were poofy and frilly.  It was so much fun to see all the diversity too. 

@draye
 do you just breed NN, or is this just a project you have going on to see how things go with the different variations? I wish I could play with them like this, it sure is fun to see the beautiful outcomes!  Are there ever any opposite out comes, or deformities you see also? Like genetic deformities, perhaps like from EE having the gene that is from the Araucana and if both parents are tufted then the chicks have the 50/50 survival rate, or perhaps other things that could happen with genetic mutations, maybe irregular feathering, not necessarily coloring but the feather consistency perhaps.

I'm breeding them. I have 2 projects going on.
I have the Green Egg Naked Necks. There is a thread for them on BYC.
Also, the Mottled/Calico/Aloha Naked Neck thread.
The only thing that I've had pop up is from the Easter Eggers. They say 1 in every few hundred ( I can't remember the exact amount) will hatch with the cross beak deformity. In all that I've hatched I've had a total if three pop out. I cull all these. I have no Staucana blood in mine. That hatching thing with so many dying before hatch is exclusive to the Araucana to Araucana deal. As far as u know it doesn't happen with cross breeding them.

All of your NNs are gorgeous, but I have to say that I'm partial to this one. 

Mi mine too. Even though I want to reduce the amount if blue in my NN's. I don't hate it, it just seems to take over. There is something very pretty though with that blue and gold together.

 

[ochochicas]

A couple of pics of my babies. The are EE turkens. They all have pea combs and should produce green or blue eggs. Adorable!