Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

Hahahaha.

Not really @DesertChic

I don't really know what actually hatched out. There were 90 something that hatched out. I sold off everything that wasn't NN.
I had a total of 43 left. I culled pretty early for known cockerels. Saving only I think 10 or 12. Then I had to cull again because if some eye problems that popped up. Some of those were cockerels and a few pullets.
So after all that this is what I was left with. By the way I forgot to mention that one of the pullets may indeed be a late developing cockerel. It is one of the 1/2 Jersey Giants and they sometimes are late developing.

So far the signs say pullet ( feather shape and smaller legs [ no tree trunk legs ] ), but the comb is saying cockerel. If that is actually the case then I may have to change my mind on the cockerel keepers.

 

[LeafBlade12345]

Joining the thread with my Turken cockerel! Honestly this pintsized beauty is such a sweet little bean. My silkie cockerel grew big enough to attack me, which he does and I have to put him in his place, but this little boy couldn't hurt a fly. He was seperated from his lifelong mate because his crowing was disruptive, so I took him in & he is so much sweeter then my silkie & he really gets doubletakes from visitors

Now that is a beautiful bird...it seems like I judged the breeds looks much too quickly. I believe the NNs I'd previously seen were not purebred, as these are much nicer looking. I may be needing some eggs soon...

 

[kherokee]

Now that is a beautiful bird...it seems like I judged the breeds looks much too quickly. I believe the NNs I'd previously seen were not purebred, as these are much nicer looking. I may be needing some eggs soon...

I agree! At first I was hoping someone else would take this little guy, but now Im so glad no one did! He doesn't have too much of a naked neck to make people think he's sick (as some NN's fade down into the body. His lifelong buddy's neck also shed most of her chest so it was really noticable). He's also smaller then my serama hen! He stands more upright and can take on a little more height, but he's so tiny & loveable!

 

[kherokee]

(I found this on instagram, it made me die laughing!)

 

[ochochicas]

Do you keep your nakeds for easier dressing, as meat birds, or as pets? Are they their own breed or another breed that is simply featherless?

Mine are pets and they are laying hens as well. I'm developing a line of olive egger NNs as well as chocolate brown egg laying NNs. I already have the olives. One more generation to the dark brown eggs. The eggs they lay now are pretty dark, but not quite dark enough for my taste.

The good thing about crossing NNs with marans is that the marans are very large birds and it just contributes to the size. Win-Win

 

[Phill98]

Mine are pets and they are laying hens as well.  I'm developing a line of olive egger NNs as well as chocolate brown egg laying NNs.  I already have the olives.  One more generation to the dark brown eggs.  The eggs they lay now are pretty dark, but not quite dark enough for my taste.

The good thing about crossing NNs with marans is that the marans are very large birds and it just contributes to the size.  Win-Win

I didn't know you had sc chickens. Or was the question about naked necks? I'm a bit confused..

 

[chickengr]

Mine are pets and they are laying hens as well. I'm developing a line of olive egger NNs as well as chocolate brown egg laying NNs. I already have the olives. One more generation to the dark brown eggs. The eggs they lay now are pretty dark, but not quite dark enough for my taste.

The good thing about crossing NNs with marans is that the marans are very large birds and it just contributes to the size. Win-Win

one of my NNs is double size compared to marans. the other 3 are bigger than marans but slightly smaller than my big fat lady. my marans boy is 3 months old. I hope he will be able to mate her when he grows up.

 

[hellbender]

Mine are pets and they are laying hens as well. I'm developing a line of olive egger NNs as well as chocolate brown egg laying NNs. I already have the olives. One more generation to the dark brown eggs. The eggs they lay now are pretty dark, but not quite dark enough for my taste.

The good thing about crossing NNs with marans is that the marans are very large birds and it just contributes to the size. Win-Win

I'll be crossing some NNs with White Chanteclers...that should provide a bit of size and a few other things that I like...on both sides of the equation.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, my NNs are 12 weeks old now. Yesterday was weighing day, but I was a bit under the weather, so they got weighed today instead. Interestingly, of the boys, the NN phenotypes (Tank, Mouse, Neo) have all dipped compared to the Nns (Bane, Dozer, Apoc - and well, Cypher's always been small). I wonder if it's an effect of the cold weather (in the 40s/occasional high 30s at night)...


I'm sort of obsessed with watching the cockerels in anticipation of having to choose two or three (I posted an insanely long stream-of-consciousness post about it over on the Breeding for Production Thread, in case you've run out of sleeping pills...)

Besides just having data, the advantage to doing this is to get my hands around each bird each week - at this point, visual appearance and weight isn't sufficient info re: body condition and shape... Bane/Mr. Smith has really pulled away from the others - he's huge, and has a wide blocky body. Like lifting a bowling ball. (And no, he didn't particularly enjoy weighing.) He's iridescent black, with very faint small red highlights showing up on his back, and he's getting red "hair". He's the only one crowing, and the Cream Legbar cockerel has been tutoring him in proper technique every morning. I am not sure about keeping him or not (rose comb, Nn phenotype). Dozer has pulled past Tank by a little bit, but he is tall and lanky - not a wide body/much breast, but his legs seem to have gotten so long and big this past week - it seems that all the weight is in those honkin' blue legs! Tank still looks good. Not sure if the weight fall off is real or not, we'll see, but he's not unwell or being picked on that I can tell. Again, maybe cold weather is slowing him down a little. Trinity (all black, NN) has now passed Mystique (partridge Nn) as biggest pullet - she'd make pretty black babies with Mr. Smith (I think of him as Mr. Smith as a grown up. He's certainly got the intimidating stare down...

)

Got some photos of Bane today. (I didn't have a lot of recent pics him.)


See there red coming up on the back? Like Neo, but much less of it so far.

On patrol...

His red hair's coming in...



- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

@Fire Ant Farm Bane has a very intense stare. His coloring and body shape are very similar to my Ozzy. It'll be interesting to see how Bane develops.