Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[DesertChic]

I FINALLY got a decent shot of my favorite NN/White Rock meat-breeding pullet, Willa.

 

[DesertChic]

I'm looking to buy some egs or trade some eggs in the fall I have a flock of 20 bantam naked necks

I wouldn't be a reliable source since even my little NNs breed with large, meaty NN roosters. If I find any other bantam NN breeders I'll let you know.

 

[Kev]

Does anybody else raise bantam turkens

I have some but not exactly breeding for them, much like DesertChic. Bantam and regular size mixed together.

Most of my bantams are black skinned(fibro), though. They look very much like naked neck ayam cemani, in both bantam and standard size.

This year I am seeing what is possibly a sex linked dwarf out of one pen. The rooster is huge broad bodied short legged out of cross between freedom and black rangers. I put him with some NN hens to increase the size/meat on them and ironically a small percentage of the pullets are coming out very small- way less than half of their 'normal' size siblings and one in particular has really short legs, yet most of them are pretty bulky in the body. Makes them look strange... but I like strange....

 

[Kev]

Does this NN look like a Cock? 17-18 weeks
-Liv

Pullet for sure.

 

[chickengr]

Pullet for sure.

x2

 

[draye]

Heres some current pictures. They're not the best. We just got over a thunderstorm and torrential ( haha don't really know how to define this word. It just popped into my head and I wanted to use it) rains.

This is the little Silver Partridge pullet, I originally thought it was a cockerel. @Kev can my Cinnamon rooster even produce a silver cockerel with those Partridge hens?

Don't really know what to call the color on this pullet. Her mother is what I call a Blue Gold. Not sure there is a name for her color pattern. Anyway the Cinnamon rooster is the daddy of this pullet.

Okay not a NN. Hatched this one out to help on the green egg project. What y'all think? Cockerel? I do. It wassupposed to be a NN green Egger, but personally I think the eggs got mixed up.

I haven't decided for sure if I'll keep him/her or not.

Another not NN. I do know for sure though that his mama was a Green Egger NN. I bred her and sold her to someone. They in turn bred her to a Csndy Corn Polish. I traded out eggs and this one was the only one that hatched. I almost positive this one is a cockerel.

My ideal is to add crests to the Green Egger NN to make it a bit easier to identify the green Eggers from the rest.

If this one is a cockerel ( his red is awfully redder looking than it is on a pullet), I'll most likely use him over the one posted above.

 

[Kev]

Oh those pics are making me NOT miss the winter rains.

silver pullet is beautiful. Cinnamon is able to produce a silver cockerel. I don't know why some turn out clearly silver, others turn Golden, or why others turn "brassy"(not a golden shade... kinda yellowish/light brownish). I have a cockerel out of a silver and a (red)wheaten and he is so far black and pure white, no hint of yellow or golden.. Shrug.

first non NN looked pullety but in full size pic I see dark red feathers coming out on the shoulders.. maybe some red with shiny roo type feathers on middle of back so it probably is a cockerel.

second non NN looks like a pullet to me. all red is on breast/neck away from the usual 'rooster red' zones...

 

[draye]

Oh those pics are making me NOT miss the winter rains.

silver pullet is beautiful.  Cinnamon is able to produce a silver cockerel.  I don't know why some turn out clearly silver, others turn Golden, or why others turn "brassy"(not a golden shade... kinda yellowish/light brownish).  I have a cockerel out of a silver and a (red)wheaten and he is so far black and pure white, no hint of yellow or golden..  Shrug. 

first non NN looked pullety but in full size pic I see dark red feathers coming out on the shoulders.. maybe some red with shiny roo type feathers on middle of back so it probably is a cockerel.

second non NN looks like a pullet to me.  all red is on breast/neck away from the usual 'rooster red' zones...

Thanks. The Crested obe dies look kind of pulletly. But I sort of was going by the darker red. Fingers crossed for Pullet that lays a green egg.

Still undecided about the EE one. I have another cockerel out of my Silver Partridge green egg laying hen. He looks like he may turn out tone a Cream Partridge. At least that's what I'm calling it. His daddy was the Blue VreamPatridge NN that I had as my avatar for a while.

 

[Beer can]

Your pairing proves your white rocks have barring, most likely used as a way to clear their legs to yellow(would have been green without barring present).. and any repeat breeding of non barred to your white rocks would be a sex linked mating- white dot on chick heads= cockerel.

The big surprise is your white rocks aren't genetically black. Nearly all commerical/production bred whites are genetically black chickens.

Interesting, "most likely to clear their legs to yellow"
The 'white / genetically black' is this just for hatchery white rocks?

 

[Mini Meat]

I have some but not exactly breeding for them, much like DesertChic. Bantam and regular size mixed together.

Most of my bantams are black skinned(fibro), though. They look very much like naked neck ayam cemani, in both bantam and standard size.

This year I am seeing what is possibly a sex linked dwarf out of one pen. The rooster is huge broad bodied short legged out of cross between freedom and black rangers. I put him with some NN hens to increase the size/meat on them and ironically a small percentage of the pullets are coming out very small- way less than half of their 'normal' size siblings and one in particular has really short legs, yet most of them are pretty bulky in the body. Makes them look strange... but I like strange....

I have gotten some runts from my DC's. 4 so far. I wonder if yours are coming from the meat bird side of the cross.

Mine are very small, but made of MEAT. They are little meat bricks a bit bigger then a softball. All pullets. Very, very cute. Unfortunately they all prolapsed and had to be put down.

If I ever get more I will cull them before point of lay.