Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[featherz]

Anyone have blue or green/olive egger NN's that may have hatching eggs available for the NYD hatch? (set date December 11). PM me and we can keep in touch as it gets closer to the date. Sold off my olive eggers and I love my NN's so it's worth a shot to get both in one try.

 

[NewToFarming]

LOL....I do have 4 bedrooms here. All my kids are grown and out of the house but there are a couple planning and plotting on if they can come down! LOL

Miss attitude always is a ham for the camera. She is something and she has to pick on a boy daily.

I have a smaller fenced area around the barn and then that opens up to a fenced acre but they have not ventured out of the smaller fenced area to go into the bigger pasture yet. One or two wandered on the other side of the fence and then looked back trying to figure out how to get back in! Silly chickens!

 

[bayshorek9]

Hello all, just sent email about joining the club and if I can be of any help with setting it up. I've been past presidents of a dog club, board member . Chair of several judges educations. At the present belong to 5 dog club and 2 pony/horse clubs and one cattle club...Frank www.bayshorekennel.com

 

[greenSearcher]

Nice place NTF. I love all the green grass. Lived in OH for 10 years and grew to love the green, even the snow, but couldn't handle the weather when it came in over Lake Erie, so we moved west. Now I live in TX, and our greenest green is what you all will look like in the winter once the frosts kill off everything. The only reason my chickens had any greens this summer was I scavenge from the grocer's produce waste bins a couple times a week. The girls love crisp lettuce and melons. Hope that the drought breaks and I can grow stuff next summer.

Dio- Our winters are cold, most days get above freezing, but nights are cold and we do get some snow and ice. I bring the waterers into the garage in the winter so they don't freeze at night otherwise there isn't a problem. Last winter my NN were just 3-4 months old and started to lay in Feb once they were 5 months. They go out no matter the weather and I had no more frostbite than on any of the other chickens.

As to the question of laying, until the last month, my girls generally laid 6 eggs each a week, but now I get 2-3 then a day off. It looks like they are beginning to molt. I suspect that things will be slow until early spring.

My poor Oakley has started, and with his legs he looks heartbreaking. I have to do my duty and put him down. He hasn't improved since he was attacked by one of the other roosters. I just cried when I tried the other day, and will probably bawl when I try again this weekend. Wish there was something I could give him to put him asleep,(any suggestions?) since I can't eat him - can't eat my buddy. I normally use the broomstick method when killing my birds (I just can't cut their throats) Nicky, his replacement is still learning how to do his job, the older hens have him buffaloed, even though he towers over them. He is nice and tall like Oakley though he has the Delaware coloring.

Will have the first boy that I harvested last weekend for dinner tonight, Chicken and Green Chili,

Will get the rest of the boys from June's hatch done in the next two weekends.

 

[NewToFarming]

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My chickens would go crazy without all the grass. They love it! I must have missed what had happened to Oakley. What were his injuries?

 

[cielo]

Is a Turken without a naked neck still a Turken? This is my first time with the breed. I have eggs hatching in an incubator right now. One of the chicks doesn't have a naked neck. 99.9% certain they are all from Turken hens and cocks. Does the gene for the naked neck just not express itself sometimes? A feather necked Turken? I did some searches and didn't find any mention of it. I can post a picture later. They're still in the incubator so it's kinda hard to get pictures. Thank you.
-Cielo

 

[flower]

If a chick is born with feathers on it's neck it did not inherit the nn gene. I have asked this question a few times myself and finally can say that I know the answer.

Remember that genes come in pairs. So if a parent only has one copy of the nn gene not all f the offsprings will be nn. If both parents have two copies each, then you should have a lot of true or pure nns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_square

 

[the Pollo Loco]

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I just hatched 2 NN eggs and neither inherited the naked neck gene... bummer!!!

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

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I just hatched 2 NN eggs and neither inherited the naked neck gene... bummer!!!

That is a bummer!!! So sorry

 

[cielo]

Got it. I figured it was something like that. A surprise though because I was expecting all NN. So it's a non-naked necked Turken.

I'll love it just the same, feathers and all. Thank you for the information. 3 out of 4 hatched so far have NN.
-Cielo