Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Here's some updated photos of my pure white Cochin and Frizzled NN's.

A white frizzle naked neck now that is a beautiful bird. I like all colors of chickens but white has always been my favorite.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

kassi the hoodas will be all black i will be breeding them back to my motteled houdans and will get some NN motteled houdans here are one of my older hoodas you can see she has a nice crest and a full beard

Really like these.Where did the dark skin come from ? Can't wait to see when you finally get a naked neck mottled houdan.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Those white NNs are fabulous!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I'm in awe, Joe. Why do you call them Hoodas?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

This is a bantam from bantam NN x LF Polish

These are from NN x LF Polish

Same cross, this is the one with the wispy beard.

And I have a couple of these Silkie x LF barred NN green-egger youngsters

 

[banjoejoe4783]

I'm in awe, Joe. Why do you call them Hoodas?

i call them hoodas because they are homozigus NN over motteled houdan or houdan nacked neck "hooda" for short

 

[Kev]

. I nearly gave up my NNs this spring because I felt pressure to breed to the standard. Life's too short not to smile. So I'm breeding Seussers for my enjoyment now, too. Thanks for voicing your opinion. Bet there's a lot of us that feel the same way.

Sorry you got negative words about the NN that way.. I got pretty "strong words" about my projects from a serious NN breeder many years ago.. continued my projects anyways but will admit his words did sting a bit and made me stop talking about them for a very long time.

I'm still doing projects but nowhere as cool/fun as all those recent pictures.

 

[Kev]

Thought I'd might mention since all those crested birds are coming up lately- if the goal is large, full size crests as on polish or houdans- I'd suggest breeding some of them back to pure polish/houdan/breed of your choice.

Crested NN was one of my past projects- for some reason it was really difficult to get birds with crests with long feathers(which was my goal), so many ended up with full size head knobs at hatch but the feathers were short or medium length so the crests ended up either small or medium when they matured.

My outcross was with polish, crossing them back with pure polish did help with longer feathers on the crests.

 

[Kev]

Thanks rebel rousing at night, I am very pleased with the color variety.If you can post pics, somebody may be able to help you. But I am guessing that cackle keeps their naked neck flock mixed color as most hatcheries do and so most hatchery naked necks are not a standard color.( I hope that I worded that right) But if you can post pics I am sure someone will help you,if no one has an answer we can still enjoy the pics.

Yep, you got a nice variety- seems several are silver wheatens/silver buffs?

For many years, the majority of NN from hatcheries are buff/orange hens and reddish roosters along a smaller percentage of 'mostly black' birds. Still seems to be the usual from some hatcheries.. its' nice to see some variety showing up such as buff with mottling in recent years plus your own chicks.

I wonder if the buffs might fit the standard, I'm still unclear if colored tails are allowed on LF buff and reds?

Congrats on your NN polish chick!

 

[gootziecat]

So many super cool birds! I love them all. But Joe's hooda has my attention...today anyway. I'm so fickle.

Kev, I appreciate the sympathy but no one in particular said anything to beat me into submission for breeding SOP. It was more the impressions one gets over a period of time of watching, reading, and listening, and feeling this is what I should do.