Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[flower]

Find the "stand of perfection" for turkens then compare them to you bird. For a local fair type show, all you really need to have is the accepted colors and the correct feet and skin colors. I do not know all of the colors but I am sure that they include white, black, red, and buff. They do not include blue or blue laced reds

 

[gootziecat]

Really adorable chicks, Georgia Boy. Of course, I'm partial to the black skinned one.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Thanks hopefully that little guy/gal will be part of a melanotic naked neck project,no specific color.However a solid white melanotic naked neck would be awesome. I have naked neck and silver spitzhauben chicks coming from cackle at the end of the month. I read somewhere that they have a lot diversity as far as color from their naked necks.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

From my barred roo and my frizzle hen. Not frizzled...but not typical. Will this bird outgrow these funky feathers?

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

#1Blue frizzle from black frizzle. Bowtie.


#2Lavender (I think) from splash frizzle hen. No bowtie. Atypical feathering.ETA: NOT lavender


#3Barred from black smooth feathered hen. Looks just like mom. Small bowtie.


#4Blue frizzle from splash frizzle hen. No bowtie.


#5Lavender ( I think) frizzle from black frizzle hen. Bowtie. ETA: NOT lavender

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

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This one is a doll. . . well, they all are!

 

[homeschoolchick]

KKH- I love your babies!!! They are beautiful! Can't wait to see them grow!!



Georgia Boy 1970- Love yours too!

 

[NewToFarming]

KKH...love the babies and they are gorgeous but chick number 4 has some serious stink eye already!! LOL

 

[gootziecat]

KKH, all the babies are precious, but #s 3 & 4 are heartbreakers.

The one with the 'funky feathers' makes me wonder if it could be a combination of the frizzle gene at work combined with lavender gene. The lavender gene can produce poor quality feathering. Dunno. Just taking a stab at it.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

KKH Awesome looking chicks.
I have just begun my naked neck polish project and already hit a bump in the road.I have eggs in the incubator from two different matings. The one that I was most excited about was the frizzle tolblunt X golden laced polish over my black naked neck hen.I candled my eggs tonight and the frizzle polish X black naked neck cross eggs look to be not fertile. But I left them in the incubator for a few more days to be sure.After all they are dark brown and I was using a flashlight.But the eggs from the other mating are all fertile. And I moved the black naked neck hen in with my white polish even though she has quit laying.