Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[BlueBaby]

@WallyBirdie What other breed's do you have there that it could be mixed with? I have a hen that has 5 toes on one foot but 4 toes on the other. She is the mother of the bigger NN chick that @Parront has. That chick hatched out with 4 toes on each foot, while the hen's other chick that I kept here has 5 toes on each foot. Your chick that has the feathered leg's could be a throw-back to past breeding history of the parent's.

 

[WallyBirdie]

@WallyBirdie What other breed's do you have there that it could be mixed with? I have a hen that has 5 toes on one foot but 4 toes on there other. She is the mother of the bigger NN chick that @Parront has. That chick hatched out w9th 4 toes on each foot, while her other chick that I kept here has 5 toes on each foot. Your chick that has the feathered let's could be a thorw-back to past breeding history of the parent's.

I have 3 hens with feathered legs. Everyone else has clean legs.
Of those 3:
1 white bantam cochin with 5 toes on each foot- she lays small white eggs (is an excellent broody but she is not currently sitting on eggs.
2 are bantam frizzles (4 toes per foot- I assume they are frizzle cochins but am not 100% sure; they were in a bin of mixed chicks)- they lay small brownish or off-white/creme color eggs.
The baby came from a small light brown egg. All my other hens lay larger or white eggs, and their legs aren't feathered.

 

[BlueBaby]

I have 3 hens with feathered legs. Everyone else has clean legs.
Of those 3:
1 white bantam cochin with 5 toes on each foot- she lays small white eggs (is an excellent broody but she is not currently sitting on eggs.
2 are bantam frizzles (4 toes per foot- I assume they are frizzle cochins but am not 100% sure; they were in a bin of mixed chicks)- they lay small brownish or off-white/creme color eggs.
The baby came from a small light brown egg. All my other hens lay larger or white eggs, and their legs aren't feathered.

Then the mother had to have been a frizzle by the color of the egg that the chick hatched from, and it would depend on what mix was in the mother's past breeding.

 

[BlueBaby]

@WallyBirdie What clean legged hen's do you have that lay smaller brownish egg's? There could be something in their past breeding history also that could be a throw-back to the feathered leg's in the chick.

 

[WallyBirdie]

@WallyBirdie What clean legged hen's do you have that lay smaller brownish egg's? There could be something in their past breeding history also that could be a throw-back to the feathered leg's in the chick.

I should make a list and double check for egg color/size, but offhand-

Frizzles (small brown)
Bantam Sebright (small brown)
Lavender Orpington (medium egg, but sometimes they end up on the smaller size)
Russian orloff (medium)
Welsummer (medium - large)
Sussex (don't recall which egg color/size)

I get green, white, and dark brown eggs, so all those layers and the older non-laying gals are out.

 

[DrumstickRanchTex]

I'm hoping that the 2 White Rock's that I got from you won't go broody after they start laying egg's.

@DrumstickRanchTex I have NN's that lay green egg's, from breeding a blue egg laying Crested Cream Legbar hen to a Naked Neck Rooster. The result was a bigger sized egg than what the mother laid.

Thank you for the info. I like NN because they tolerate the heat (here in TX) very well and are easy to process if you decide to do that.

 

[DrumstickRanchTex]

I'm hoping that the 2 White Rock's that I got from you won't go broody after they start laying egg's.

@DrumstickRanchTex I have NN's that lay green egg's, from breeding a blue egg laying Crested Cream Legbar hen to a Naked Neck Rooster. The result was a bigger sized egg than what the mother laid.

Awesome. That’s great info.

 

[Parront]

Thank you for the info. I like NN because they tolerate the heat (here in TX) very well and are easy to process if you decide to do that.

Beauty is as beauty does. A beautiful bird that dies in the heat is not as pretty to me as a live NN! My husband said they are so ugly, he won't mind me processing them! (As he feeds them grapes and builds them perches).

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I got him!! I didn't get the hen I liked but I'll take the male. He's so big and his comb and wattles are absolutely ginormous!!! He's at most a month older than my big male Zeus, but his comb and wattles are like 4x the size. I'll get a picture tomorrow cause I wannaknow if anyone knows what color he is and maybe a breed that could be in his background (hatchery bird probably from Hoover judging by the store he was picked up in, but I know they'll mix birds occasionally for more.color variation))

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Meet my new boy. Need names for him and a possible guess (I'm thinking red and black leakage) to color and what breeds may be in his background since I know hatcheries may mix breeds in to add new colors.

He honestly feels about 10 pounds and he is an early March baby. He's currently in a cage that is 2x2 and you can see how big he looks in there (I'm quarantining since he's new to the flock)