Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Phill98]

I have 4 cross females right now, trying to get them to egg laying to ai w/ my naked boy so I can get some size on the nakeds.  Anyway my girls even the really big one are very active, they are being raised w/ normal chickens  (well as normal as mine are).  They search for food, run around w/ the others their age, fly up on things that are about 3 foot tall.  I don't think they are growing as fast as those that lay by the feeders and eat, but that kind of growth isn't important to me.

Next time you'll have a photoshoot (hope it will be soon) take some pics of them too and tell us how old they will be at that time I am really curious.

 

[alije]

beautiful birds!

and that green grass made me cry - it has already been dried out overhere.

Thanks. We have a lot od rain and a lot of grass this year

 

[Phill98]

most of this year's chicks are boys, not to mention that very few eggs hatched. I bought those 2 beauties.

I think that ISA brown are a white leghorn/RIR cross.

Too bad, I didn't get a broody this year. One was clucking and acting really broody but never ent to sit on the eggs. She is now acting normal, seem like it passed her.

 

[chickengr]

Too bad, I didn't get a broody this year. One was clucking and acting really broody but never ent to sit on the eggs. She is now acting normal, seem like it passed her.

I have 3 clucking hens and no broody. clucking seems to be this year's fashion, lol.

btw, it is too hot here so eggs wouldn't hatch. if any of my ladies change her mind I might give it a try.

 

[Kev]

I also noticed that cornish x are very tame and calm when we had them but they seem to be too fat. Maybe if a broody raised a cornish x maybe they would be more active and not go too big.

So dominant white with black tailed white would produce something like ISA browns?

It is genetic so a broody raised would still end up way big and most don;t live much longer past 2 years.

Both of the cornish x parents(got a cockerel and a pullet to reach sexual maturity this spring) have been killed off by 90-100 degree heat wave a couple months ago.. sad.

Dominant white(as in a solid white bird) crossed with black tail white would give you solid whites, maybe some with black random spots.

However if you cross roo with ISA coloring with a black tail white hen that is sex linked mating- the white on black tail whites is due to sex linked silver.. the cockerels would start out very white and the pullets would be buff/reddish and grow out into the ISA color.

Crossing ISA with a black would give you cream chicks, some with random black spots (and half of the chicks would be black as ISA are not pure for dominant white..) however a lot of them will grow up to have a buff wash over them and the cockerels would grow a dark red patch on their wings. If paint is your goal cross them again with a solid black to get rid of the buff wash.

 

[Kev]

I have 4 cross females right now, trying to get them to egg laying to ai w/ my naked boy so I can get some size on the nakeds. Anyway my girls even the really big one are very active, they are being raised w/ normal chickens (well as normal as mine are). They search for food, run around w/ the others their age, fly up on things that are about 3 foot tall. I don't think they are growing as fast as those that lay by the feeders and eat, but that kind of growth isn't important to me.

Good luck with raising those crosses. btw if the roo breeds the hens normally they will be able to breed the crosses just fine.. mine did.

I found them easy to raise in cooler weather but once they reach sexual maturity, heat suddenly becomes a big problem for them- and mine wasn;t even the huge monster line.

 

[Kev]

it is already hot here. my chickens move only when the sun moves, just to find another place to hide.

what colours would these be:

this is ciqua

and these are ciqua and choco:



they are about 2 months old.

Haha when my flock was free range, when the ground was too hot to the touch the lighter weight chickens would actually try to fly from shade to shade.. the heavy ones had to just run for it. Their pens are completely covered, some with solid roofs, some partly solid roof with shade cloth covering the rest. Too hot for most of the year to have sunny runs for them.

Your girls are partridges aka dark browns..

 

[Kev]

I've probably had them a month. The one second from the bottom was in the original picture. And with the group shot of the four he's the smaller one in the middle. My favorite is the larger one standing behind the brown. I like his coloring and I personally like the look of NN without the bow tie. I'll probably end up keeping him.

Thanks, wow he is much smaller than the others.

Before final pick, handle all of them to get a feel of their condition, see if there's anything off physically- check legs, breasts etc.

Sometimes it is nice to keep an extra while they are all still so young, in case something happens to the pick or he turns out mean..

There's a visual difference between birds pure or not pure for the naked neck gene.. your favorite and the small one just happens to be pure for it and the others aren't.

 

[Kev]

this is mine paint nn; cross between buff nn hen and paint silkie roo:

I'm missing all the green too- everything is brown out here.

Thanks for posting your paint crosses! They help prove the paint in silkies really are dominant white.

Your NN rooster in another post is so beautiful I love him.

 

[Phill98]

It is genetic so a broody raised would still end up way big and most don;t live much longer past 2 years.

Both of the cornish x parents(got a cockerel and a pullet to reach sexual maturity this spring) have been killed off by 90-100 degree heat wave a couple months ago..  sad.  

Dominant white(as in a solid white bird) crossed with black tail white would give you solid whites, maybe some with black random spots.

However if you cross roo with ISA coloring with a black tail white hen that is sex linked mating- the white on black tail whites is due to sex linked silver..  the cockerels would start out very white and the pullets would be buff/reddish and grow out into the ISA color.

Crossing ISA with a black would give you cream chicks, some with random black spots (and half of the chicks would be black as ISA are not pure for dominant white..)  however a lot of them will grow up to have a buff wash over them and the cockerels would grow a dark red patch on their wings.   If paint is your goal cross them again with a solid black to get rid of the buff wash.

Lol, I was going to say dominant white crossed with black tail red not white like I said.