Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kassaundra]

Beautiful eggs!! Who lays the lavender?

Edited: Oops, just saw that you listed the EE's - I had no idea that pretty purple was an option for them! My girl lays a green egg with a slightly blue tint to it.

Which eggs look lavender??? None look lavendar in real life

 

[countrygirl74]

Oh, and the skin and bone Boxer dog I found, he had a great new home with a family with 3 kids. I took him to the vet, no heartworms, earmites, or parasites. He is on antibotics and is doing great! The family who took him had a female rescued Boxer and the lady says they play together and everyone loves this dog......so Yea! I know he will be very well loved and cared for now!

 

[countrygirl74]

This is my first time raising Naked Necks... what color egg can they lay? I have one with a bowtie, one without. Don't know if that makes a difference or not?

 

[Flowerbh]

This is my first time raising Naked Necks... what color egg can they lay? I have one with a bowtie, one without. Don't know if that makes a difference or not?

Mine came from Dipsy Doodle Doo. They have pea combs and will give me XL green eggs! Most NNs have straight combs and will lay brown eggs.

 

[ksvet06]

can't wait till they are grown lol......coop is painted now too!

 

[Kev]

You are right, they are ALL guilty!
Making them line up is kinda how I keep up with 'who hatched when'. I toe-punch, band legs, and keep a notebook, but then I can always look back at 'chick pics' and know who is from who by pics and my notes.

Hmm. With a rap sheet, pierced, blinged out, mug shots already when just out of the shell. Not sure if I want those chicks around my chicks... fowl influence and all that.

 

[Kev]

I just put 4 NN mix eggs on lock down with 3 days to go.

This is my first hatch so I have a question. On my last candle 2 eggs(lg banty) had a little room left, 1(med) had no room (totally dark except air pocket) and that seemed normal to me but the largest egg(XL) had almost a third of its space left. Is that OK/normal or is it just slow developing?

Not sure what you mean by those descriptions. When that close to hatching the egg should very dark with a bright air cell with a sharp dividing line between the two.

If you still can see 'through' a lot of the yolk/white side, check for veins, they should be sharply defined- no fuzzy edges. Veins with fuzzy edges often are a later death. Also hold the egg still and see if the chick moves. Scratch the eggshell, sometimes that seems to wake up the baby and gets it moving around.

That close to hatching I'd just leave all in and hope for the best.

 

[Kev]

Hi, I was told the naked neck gene is always carried to what ever it is crossed with. Is this true. These are all purebred. I also have purebred Barred Rocks. Both are great year round layers of very large layers. I decided to switch the roosters in these two flocks hoping to get some barred naked necks. Have been waiting for about 3 wks now to start saving eggs for hatching. Does anyone know a safe time to save eggs after switching breeds for hatching eggs.? Also does anyone have any idea what my results should be? I was told the barred rock hen would carry the barring gene and either turken rooster or hen always carry the naked neck gene. Is this true?

That's a very very beautiful roo in your avatar! Would like to see more pictures of your other naked necks. what do you mean by purebred as for the naked necks?

2 weeks is okay if the roosters have been frequently breeding all of the hens- chances are most of the chicks will be from the new roo however if you want to be 100% sure, it's three weeks.

The info you got was about correct- the barring is a sex linked gene(it does 'fit' what you said about hen carrying it) and naked neck is not sex linked so it doesn't matter which parent has it. Add to that, all of the barred rock roo's chicks will be barred.

Did you want barred as in like the barred rocks- black and white only? or barring over various colors? personally I think barring on a bird like your avatar would be very eye catching.

 

[countrygirl74]

Which eggs look lavender??? None look lavendar in real life

The one that doesn't have a place to sit and the one behind it in the back, far left corner. But, the ones on the right end also look very gray to me, as they did to someone else... probably just the way the camera captured the color.

 

[insanity]

Not sure what you mean by those descriptions. When that close to hatching the egg should very dark with a bright air cell with a sharp dividing line between the two.

If you still can see 'through' a lot of the yolk/white side, check for veins, they should be sharply defined- no fuzzy edges. Veins with fuzzy edges often are a later death. Also hold the egg still and see if the chick moves. Scratch the eggshell, sometimes that seems to wake up the baby and gets it moving around.

That close to hatching I'd just leave all in and hope for the best.

Thanks for the advise and wisdom. All 4 eggs have good movement including the odd one. It just looks like the others did 5 or 6 days ago( not as far developed maybe). I guess I'll have to wait and see. Only a couple days left.