Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[DesertChic]

Ahhh nooo what is it with cornish not breeding properly this spring?! completely understand not wanting to mess with the cornish.. I would not even pick up the cx when it got warm either.. but if you do try to arrange something, try the broadest shouldered hens. the cx roo was not able to breed narrow hens at all....

the cx pullet was not a good layer at all.. seems Kass says the same(unless they;ve gotten better?) but as soon as she lays... save and incubate those eggs! toss eggs already in the incubator if you have to.. trust me on this.

I suspect both may be the same main color or share many color/pattern traits at least, except for beautiful(I love her patterns and color!) Muffin having mottle and blue and Zazzle having barring.

I'd guess the chicks to grow up mostly like Zazzle, with and without the barring(both sexes). Throw blue in the mix for some blue buff barreds, blue tail buffs. No mottles, unless he is a secret mottle carrier.

the blue leg shows she has white skin. At least half of the chicks will grow to have white legs(on barreds) or blue(non barred). Have to say she is fairly unusual in having very dark legs for a mottle(it likes to make the leg spotty too).. any chance she is fibro?

Thanks for the info! She has white skin, so I think fibro is out of the question.

So the only way to perpetuate the mottled is with another mottled or mottled carrier? Well...that's a bit of a bummer.

As far as the CX go...well, it was good in theory. I'm pretty confident that Tucker, my DC, may actually survive the summer. He's tolerating the heat much, much better than the other two, and if he learns to court the ladies instead of just trying to rape them, maybe he'll even get lucky. The other two I have little hope for. I'm watching Clara Belle like a hawk for any sign of egg laying, and I will absolutely throw the eggs in an incubator right away if I get any. She's adapting to the heat better than big ole Tubbs too, but I know my luck will run out eventually.

Thanks again for the info!

 

[I Love Layers]

Well my brother in law has come and gone, and left 3 two day old chicks.  Seems 200 escaped, and 6 were under his truck, which he captured but only 3 made it to the end of the work day.  They were pretty chilled and weak.  I have them under heat, all have had food (boiled siblings eggs) and water.  They seem a bit spunkier, but they have had quite an ordeal.

Oh no!!!

These are my 4 favorite! I am so glad i for 1 white!

 

[Kev]

thanks, that's a nice even colour. I've raised silkies before so am familiar with their carcasses, it was the blends Kev was talking about with their differing shades and parts that intrigued me. Did you notice a difference in the taste of the meat? Quote:
Haven't posted rose combed ones.. for some reason I rarely take pics or post them.

as for the second question.. look at my avatar. look for Kassaundra's Rudy- he went thru a phase where you can see the spottiness.

 

[Kev]

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Yea mottle is recessive.. need a mottle or mottle carrier for mottle chicks.

is it possible to confine/separate all roosters except for the cornish? so they;re the only roosters available to the hens? just an idea... sometimes hens without their favored rooster/not bred any any other roosters for a while will become more 'patient' with clumsy oafs. Might even voluntarily squat for them..

 

[FaerieChicken]

Oh no!!!




These are my 4 favorite! I am so glad i for 1 white!

Those are the cutest lil bitties ever, love how they look like they have a helmet of feathers. I just love the look of NN, even my crosses, which all end up buff colored. I had a buff hen, and I have a Red rooster, so not sure why even my NN/EE crosses come out that way as well! But they are all cute

 

[draye]

@Kev

Is it possible fir a NN to get 2 copies of the gene even if both parents carried only 1 gene?

 

[Bluechick2u]

Really?  Because they are listed in a couple places as heat hardy.  I believe Purely Poultry is one of them.   Is it possible that it depends on the strain?   Could generations of being bred in a colder climate breed the heat tolerance out of them?  That's actually a breed that I've been eyeing for where I live here in AZ, I'm disappointed to hear you experienced otherwise...

I definitely think it depends on the strain, I brought mine from southern CA (originally hatched in Texas) and dragged them up to Oregon, they were running around in the snow and ice in 5 degrees no problem, and I had to force them to get out of the snow and go into the coop at night. Every one of them survived, thrived, and SURPRISE, started laying in January. When I had them in Southern CA, they were fine in 110 degrees, just had to be sure they had shade and water, and they did not slack on laying then either. When I moved to Oregon, I tried to get some but places here said that naked necks hadn't done well here so they stopped ordering them. So I am therefore of the opinion that the strain counts. In my case, heat hardy birds went through a 25 below winter with no problems at all, I got mine from Escondido Feed store in Escondido CA, maybe you can ask them what breeder its from.

 

[Kev]

@Kev

Is it possible fir a NN to get 2 copies of the gene even if both parents carried only 1 gene?

Yes- 25% will get two copies from this.

 

[Phill98]

@Kev and@Kassaundra imagine having a scsc that has this rich blue colour as @DesertChic's caracass.

Wouldn't that look even better than solid black one?!?

 

[Kassaundra]

@Kev and@Kassaundra imagine having a scsc that has this rich blue colour as @DesertChic 's caracass.

Wouldn't that look even better than solid black one?!?

Kev's "Presious" and a few others were scaleless and fm. I have had several pretty dark fm and scaleless both my girls right now are repectiblly dark.