Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[N&MSchroeder]

Beautiful egg!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[gootziecat]

David Blue's turken page - http://reocities.com/Petsburgh/6624/

 

[Nava]

people please vote on my poll We Need To Win this one


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=514769

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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NACKED NECK is the corect name but hatcherys call them turkens but they ARE THE SAME *** FYI turkens are not turkey chicken crosses

NNs can come in anny color comb shap size ex ex ex but only singale combs are APA reconnized

 

[Nava]

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NACKED NECK is the corect name but hatcherys call them turkens but they ARE THE SAME *** FYI turkens are not turkey chicken crosses

NNs can come in anny color comb shap size ex ex ex but only singale combs are APA reconnized

MINE are turkey crosses joe!!!!!!

 

[banjoejoe4783]

 

[Kev]

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Turken is a slang name, not an 'official' name but sure is very popular. Some people in the show or stick to breeding with the standards don't much like to hear 'turken' and will only use 'naked neck'. (it doesn't matter much to me.. they're all gorgeous no matter what they're called but have been very sternly lectured about using 'turken' a couple times..)

It's similar to frizzles. There is an actual breed with a standard etc for frizzles and naked necks. But both the frizzling and naked neck trait are extremely easily added or mixed into ANYthing else(there are even frizzled naked necks, very cute creatures). So now frizzled cochins are common(but now the frizzle breed is very uncommon). It does get confusing when the same name is used very interchangeably... Anyways, 'show standard' naked necks come in a couple colors- white, buff, red, black.. all single combs with a certain body type. comes in both LF and bantam.

They're also a little bit like EE, naked necks mixed with other breeds are extremely common, the ones with pea combs, crests leg feathering etc are this category. nothing wrong of course- I've been very much 'guilty' of this... you mention leghorn-like, you could very very easily make some yourself, just cross a naked neck with a leghorn.. all you need to do is keep the 'best' ones and breed back to leghorns.. repeat with a naked neck bird each generation and voila, you have naked necked leghorns(would love to see this) This is the very ease of doing so is why there seems to be such a wild variety of naked necks. One of my projects is for larger and heavier turkens plus maintaining decent or bigger egg size and good/better production.

also naked necks from hatcheries are not bred with standard in mind- colors freely mixed so they look "Naked Neck-ish" but may have 'wrong' color, especially leg color. The standard calls for yellow legs in all colors except blacks, which are to have black legs but you will see all sorts of leg colors from hatchery stock. (has nothing to do with egg color btw- think someone asked about this?) Those usually are excellent producers though, many heavy enough to be decent meat birds and good/excellent egg layers. (production and size can be very variable with backyard bred aka mixed stock). It was a hatchery turken that got me hooked on this breed.. and all naked necks.

If you're ordering from a hatchery, go ahead and add a couple turkens.. you'll be happy for doing so!

 

[Kev]

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voted!

everybody, keep the pictures coming. love them all!

 

[pgpoultry]

Just voted in the poll, so done my bit for today to promote the breed.

Kev....if you are look for big and heavy, my NN X Blue partridge Brahma are seriously huge for ten and a half weeks. They are pure black NN X pure (if this can be the case) Blue Partridge Brahma (mum Gold Partridge Brahma, dad Red Pyle aka Splash Brahma). I have 3 cockerels and one pullet from the first hatch and they are already as large as my LF Black NN hens, but with bigger, thicker legs and heavier necks. they are much bigger than Brahma chicks of the same age.....must be hybrid vigour, otherwise this confuses me. They have lightly feathered black legs.

Now if I was a meat eater I might fancy the boys from this first hatched lightly cooked any time soon.....but I'm not.....so I'll wait to tell you as and when the pullet comes into lay and her laying performance.

The sexes showed feather differences very early on, too, so I was able to tell at about 7 days what was what.

I have a 7 week old pullet of the same crossing and an unrelated and rather large mottled black NN pullet hatched by one of my big Brahma hens at the moment.

I thought I would try crossing the 'best' of the bunch with the Black NN's....Mort will be happy to service the girls, and I have both the Blue Partridge Brahma boy and the Red Pyle....whose green eyes have dominated all his offspring. My Brahma boys are pretty big lads so I will have to bring out more poultry saddles.....

 

[7961]

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