Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[funkyfeathers]

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Odd ones are the best!

Have a few pure pens, but the "projects" are my favorite.

 

[teach1rusl]

According to the BREEDS chart here on BYC, turkens lay quite well (listed as high productivity). However, on the Meyer Hatchery site, it says they only lay like 2X a week, which I don't consider 'quite well'. I know there are always exceptions, but are turkens good egg layers?? Thanks!

 

[funkyfeathers]

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I find them to be great layers! I'm in Florida (which is Always HOT), and they continue to lay through the summer when most of the others slack off.

 

[phasian]

Wow! Love the cuckoo NN. It is refreshing to find people who adore this breed. I try to make converts where I can. Just gave a Wheaten hen to a fellow poultry enthusiast who always thought these birds were offensive looking. He is now utterly charmed by her!

 

[greenSearcher]

I am amazed at the number of folks that actually think they are a turkey-chicken cross. I almost have my therapist (for chronic pain) convinced to try NNs. He wants productive egg layers, and living here in the oven of TX, I keep telling him that they are his answer. They do go broody though. I have a couple of them and a speckled sussex that are convinced they want to be mothers, so they are getting taken out of the nest box everytime we check eggs. It is just too hot, today is 109. If they are still in the mood when fall finally arrives, they can go for it. Not too likely.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! The Ideal Hatchery Naked Neck girls I had were great layers of large brown eggs. I think once they started they never quit right up til I sold them (they were buff-ish and red-skin).
All the Naked Necks I have now lay really well, except when they aren't laying, hahaha.
It was mentioned a page or two back that the Malgache lay about 20 eggs in spring and another 20 in fall --- maybe that is the breed Meyer is referring to?

Lisa
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[Nava]

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I agree, cause my NN are the best egg layers i have year round, at the moment I'm getting 16 to 19 eggs a day out of 20

 

[jelly713]

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"No crow" rooster update. Both his "craigslist" sisters started laying
this week. He has been crowing ALL day! I have 30 hens that are
in lock down, and he has never said a word. Go figure!

He is super friendly and I chased my with a tape measure. I got
26 inches to the top of his crown! I think he left his tail with another
generation. Who cares. Here is a pic taken today so you can
check him out.

 

[jelly713]

The subject of this post is "you never know what you get from the hatchery."

My 4th batch of chix from my flea market black NN rooster and buff Ideal hens and
I have a white bearded pullet! This is the first one that looks like this!

She has 5 toes on one foot, and 4 on the other. Feathers on both feet.
One of her sisters (all black) has BIG mutton chops, and NO feathers on her neck. 4 toes on
each foot and bad attitude!

Kev, any comment?

I love them anyway.

Jelly

 

[funkyfeathers]

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My guess would be the rooster that you got at the fleamarket was a cull from somebody trying to creat a new Showgirl line. Though you do not have the Silkie feather type you have the dark skin, feathers on the legs, five toes (on one foot

), and the beard.