Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

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Yeah I saw pictures of those and was so surprised... being a fan of long legged chickens, of course I was awed by those. They look like nothing else.. as if they had parts of several different breeds put into one bird. wonder how they got them to be accepted as clean legs..

Australia also has some really cool breeds.. Australian game, their Malays are so much better than ours.. there are a fair number of Aussie or Malay mixed with NN and they turn out really nice. Have you seen these?

 

[Phill98]

Yeah I saw pictures of those and was so surprised...   being a fan of long legged chickens, of course I was awed by those. They look like nothing else.. as if they had parts of several different breeds put into one bird.  wonder how they got them to be accepted as clean legs..

Australia also has some really cool breeds.. Australian game, their Malays are so much better than ours..  there are a fair number of Aussie or Malay mixed with NN and they turn out really nice.   Have you seen these?

I have also seen "normal" langshans there and they call them croad-with feathered legs and u shaped back.

I have seen both malay and australian game and I don't really like them. Only game type chickens that I had interest in are bantam ko shamo and of course modern game. But don't really think I would get any of those.

These German langshans have the most interesting body to me and I really like them-but in large fowl they don't look near that. I think that crossed with Nn would look great. Fm. Olive egger. White and splash. Or non nn with beard. I think I should stop now.

 

[Kev]

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That is how I learned genetics... wondered about things about that... and went ahead and did it! lol

the closest I came to those were pea combed, NN, long legged(from modern game) and rumpless. They reminded me of rheas, especially the brown hens.

Also made something like long legged NN leghorn type. Long slender bodies with big long fanned out tails. sort of liked those but they were shivered during the cold spells so I stopped with these.

 

[Phill98]

That is how I learned genetics...  wondered about things about that...  and went ahead and did it! lol

the closest I came to those were pea combed, NN, long legged(from modern game) and rumpless.  They reminded me of rheas, especially the brown hens.

Also made something like long legged NN leghorn type. Long slender bodies with big long fanned out tails.   sort of liked those but they were shivered during the cold spells so I stopped with these.

Do you have any photos of these? Would love to see that.

I've actually always liked white and splash, and when I came here on BYC, first thing I saw were @Kassaundra's fm naked necks and fell in love with them. Olive eggs are new thing that I have just discovered.

 

[draye]

So, since I'm snooping on this discussion I should probably add something. My brother likes to get random mixed hatching eggs at the livestock auction, and ended up with these two NN that he let me have. Since then, my life has upended. My birds are mixed in with a cousins flock in Utah, while I'm stuck in AZ. But I hope to get back up there and bring my birds down here soon. The only pics I have are from when the NN's were about 14 +/- weeks back in August. I last saw them in November, and they looked gorgeous. Especially the roo. I can't wait to see how they look now. Thing is, they are crossed with something that's given them feathered feet. I wanna say Maran, but really have no idea.

I see Kev five posted in these. I was about to say what handsome and big birds they are. I like big birds. Also was going to say they set up quite nice if they are crossed with marans. But I uninitiated I'll have to agree after it was stated they do favor the Kangahsn stance more.

 

[Kev]

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Unfortunately no.. those were before digital cameras were common. There might be pictures in a box somewhere. I also have a bad habit of not saving digital pictures to memory storage so once a laptop crashes/dies.. it's all gone.

I also made olive eggers well before it became a big fad lol.. the idea was "hmm what happens blue egg on dark eggs....." went ahead and bred araucana to welsummer and marans then bred back to welsumer and marans again. Some of the eggs were incredible! Most were the typical olive eggs you see but some hens laid incredibly dark solid green or occasionally laid them either as pullets or coming back intolay after a molt. Also got shiny olive eggs by backcrossing repeatedly to marans. With the welsummers they gave a different set of olive eggs, a lot of green with dark green or brown spots. Not sure what color welsummers typically lay now, the ones I had laid wonderful red/reddish eggs, most with brown speckles. I cannot see red too good so that was extra cool for me. Unfortunately the welsummer roosters were very suspectible to heat stroke- 100% death and also hens older than two yrs also died. It was surprising as they were not particularly heavy or big chickens.. I had wanted to try a blend of welsummer and marans to see what eggs they would make.. shiny red eggs or?? but never got to doing that.

 

[Kassaundra]

Unfortunately no.. those were before digital cameras were common. There might be pictures in a box somewhere. I also have a bad habit of not saving digital pictures to memory storage so once a laptop crashes/dies.. it's all gone.

You just gave me heart palpitations!!!!!! Not backed up to storage

 

[draye]

Unfortunately no..   those were before digital cameras were common.   There might be pictures in a box somewhere.  I also have a bad habit of not saving digital pictures to memory storage so once a laptop crashes/dies.. it's all gone.

I also made olive eggers well before it became a big fad lol..  the idea was "hmm  what happens blue egg on dark eggs....."  went ahead and bred araucana to welsummer and marans then bred back to welsumer and marans again.  Some of the eggs were incredible!  Most were the typical olive eggs you see but some hens laid incredibly dark solid green or occasionally laid them either as pullets or coming back intolay after a molt.    Also got shiny olive eggs by backcrossing repeatedly to marans.   With the welsummers they gave a different set of olive eggs,  a lot of green with dark green or brown spots.   Not sure what color welsummers typically lay now,  the ones I had laid wonderful red/reddish eggs, most with brown speckles.   I cannot see red too good so that was extra cool for me.  Unfortunately the welsummer roosters were very suspectible to heat stroke- 100% death and also hens older than two yrs also died.   It was surprising as they were not particularly heavy or big chickens..    I had wanted to try a blend of welsummer and marans to see what eggs they would make..  shiny red eggs or??  but never got to doing that.

On the Welsummer eggs, I think they call them "terra cotta". Kind of the color of those reddish clay flower pots.

 

[Kev]

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sorry...

btw what do y'all like to use for memory storage?

 

[I Love Layers]

sorry...

btw what do y'all  like to use for memory storage?  

Flash drives here. And then sorted into folders and then each picture is named.