Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

Weights, measures and photos are complete for the week and I'm pleased with several of my NN chicks so far. Since I've got nearly 2 dozen I'm only going to post photos of some of my favorites:

Here's the latest image of Ozzy, who really didn't enjoy being photographed. His feathering looks kinda awful, but he's got the highest growth rate in this group since hatching at over 866% since day 1. The big surprise for me are the reddish feathering coming in on his neck.

Princess, my favorite of the chipmunk pullets.

Another of the chipmunks, and another that's keeping me guessing about gender.


Ruby: I originally thought this was a pullet, but now I'm not too sure.

Pepper, my Austrolorp/NN mix...and probably the sweetest bird in the whole flock. And big!


No name yet, but a handsome little cockerel.


And now a couple of Mama Lily's chicks. Since she decided to move on I added them to my "incubator" chick flock, but they're 5 weeks old, not 4:

Zazzle - a nice robust cockerel weighing in at 14.82 ounces.

Jagger, the second cockerel in this group.



I'm a little disappointed in overall growth rates compared to their parents, but there are a few relatively promising birds in this flock. And a lot of pretty ones! (In my humble opinion.)

They are VERY pretty!!! I love watching their feathers start to come in, and wonder what they'll look like when they grown up.

(I'm impressed with the photos - after a while, I stopped being able to weigh and photo onto same day - too much drama and squawking...)

- Ant Farm

 

[draye]

Weights, measures and photos are complete for the week and I'm pleased with several of my NN chicks so far. Since I've got nearly 2 dozen I'm only going to post photos of some of my favorites: Here's the latest image of Ozzy, who really didn't enjoy being photographed. His feathering looks kinda awful, but he's got the highest growth rate in this group since hatching at over 866% since day 1. The big surprise for me are the reddish feathering coming in on his neck. Princess, my favorite of the chipmunk pullets. Another of the chipmunks, and another that's keeping me guessing about gender. Ruby: I originally thought this was a pullet, but now I'm not too sure. Pepper, my Austrolorp/NN mix...and probably the sweetest bird in the whole flock. And big! No name yet, but a handsome little cockerel. And now a couple of Mama Lily's chicks. Since she decided to move on I added them to my "incubator" chick flock, but they're 5 weeks old, not 4: Zazzle - a nice robust cockerel weighing in at 14.82 ounces. Jagger, the second cockerel in this group. I'm a little disappointed in overall growth rates compared to their parents, but there are a few relatively promising birds in this flock. And a lot of pretty ones! (In my humble opinion.)

You have some very pretty colors in your bunch. Now ate yours tge ones that are part EE? Someone told me theiers were but I can't rent ER who for sure.

 

[Phill98]

@DesertChic Love the chicks! I wonder what color Ozzy is now. He doesn't look black to me at this point.

 

[majortaylor]

I recently went to the local dog pound to hire a possum trap and came out adopting a lovely NN hen! She was found running down a local street and brought in.

She is currently extremely afraid of humans and most things. She spends most of her day perched in a tree. Does anyone have experience of taming NN birds and have any tips to pass on?

 

[chickengr]

N is the gene that confers "nakedness". n is the version that is fully feathered. Every bird has two genes. NN and Nn will have nakedness of various degrees, as noted below. But if you cross two Nn, you'll get (roughly) 25% nn (fully feathered).

NN = homozygous for naked neck gene; either clean-necked or very small bowtie (a few feathers)
Nn = heterozygous for naked neck gene; bigger "muff" in the front of the neck, naked back of neck
nn = fully feathered (either Naked Neck derived or any other breed)


Yes, I posted that, too, in a previous post - I was just thinking that it might be useful to see the Punnet square as well for some people - you can calculate the percentages without having to memorize it that way.

- Ant Farm

thank you.

I have just realized my ladies with big muffs are Nn! one is going to marry a rumpless araucana guy (rumpless nacked neck offspring?) and another one is going to marry a bcm (for dark layers). I cannot wait for the spring!

 

[LuWis]

My little naked neck bantam
Aniya, she always comes up to people to sit on their laps or shoulders when we have guests in the backyard. Kind of annoying sometimes but I love her to bits.

 

[Hholly]

My little naked neck bantam
Aniya, she always comes up to people to sit on their laps or shoulders when we have guests in the backyard. Kind of annoying sometimes but I love her to bits.

She's cute!

 

[chickengr]

My little naked neck bantam
Aniya, she always comes up to people to sit on their laps or shoulders when we have guests in the backyard. Kind of annoying sometimes but I love her to bits.

what cross is this beauty?

 

[LuWis]

what cross is this beauty?

Thank you fellow naked neck friends
She is crossed with a turken/silkie roo and an old english game hen. From that cross 2 of her sisters have that wierd black comb also. I will be breeding her to a smaller roo to get smaller naked neck babies and also, I will try to keep that comb type and white earlobes that look like jewelry
Full body pic

 

[DesertChic]

They are VERY pretty!!! I love watching their feathers start to come in, and wonder what they'll look like when they grown up.

(I'm impressed with the photos - after a while, I stopped being able to weigh and photo onto same day - too much drama and squawking...)

- Ant Farm

Thanks! I had help from my son, who took the photos while I handled the birds, but it was a very time consuming process. At the end he said, "I didn't realize there were so many chicks! I mean, I knew, but....wow! That was a lot of work." Um...yeah...and all he had to do was write down numbers and take the picture. I had to do all the handling, chasing, etc.

You have some very pretty colors in your bunch. Now ate yours tge ones that are part EE? Someone told me theiers were but I can't rent ER who for sure.

Thanks! I don't know for certain that they have EE blood in them, but some of these chicks did come from single-comb, green egg laying mothers. The breeders I'd gotten the eggs from stated they were pure NN, but who knows for sure? I did get one fully feathered bird out of the eggs I allowed Lily to hatch, so they can't be completely pure, but the fully feathered one didn't come from a green egg layer.

@DesertChic Love the chicks! I wonder what color Ozzy is now. He doesn't look black to me at this point.

Thank you! He's mostly black, but it's not a pure, deep black as there's a definite reddish tone to his feathers. Ozzy's feathering is actually kind of weird. I actually wondered if he had a frizzle gene in him given how his feathers were flipping away from his body, but now I'm thinking he's just a little more careless than the other birds and bending some of his feathers with his activities. He's very tenacious and likes to challenge the limits of the boundaries of their pen and run. When I watch him I can nearly hear a child's voice yelling, "Outta my way! I can do that!" as he tries to fly higher than his little wings will permit, squeeze through areas too small for him, and challenge full-grown cockerels on the other side of the mesh of his outdoor run. (The older cockerels seem to be amused by him too. Two of them literally lay down next to the run to watch him while he carries on with his antics.)