Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kassaundra]

You might enjoy this Kassaundra, (a message posted elsewhere) :
"anyone want to give me a naked neck chicken??? apparently if you breed a naked neck chicken with a broiler chicken you are supposed to get a naked chicken and i want to see if its true."
Where do these ideas come from????

Lol oh if only it was that easy!!!!!!


Reminds me of something my Gpa told my brother when we were young, he said if you sprinkled salt on a deers tail she would follow you home. That poor child spent all day on a cold dreary OK Nov day wondering around our Gparents back woods w/ a salt shaker looking for his "pet" deer to salt the tail.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

: ) That sounds like something I would have fallen for.

 

[ShayBaby]

Hooray! A NN thread! Alright, fellow Turken-folk, I need gender opinions. These little guys are only roughly 4 weeks old (maybe more..got at a critter swap), but they've both had huge combs like this for at least a week. No red on face yet, just the combs that I thought were huge for their age. Are they absolutely cockerels? >.< I'll be so disappointed if they are. The white(?) is skittish, but the black has SO much personality; I just adore him.

 

[Nava]

Hooray! A NN thread! Alright, fellow Turken-folk, I need gender opinions. These little guys are only roughly 4 weeks old (maybe more..got at a critter swap), but they've both had huge combs like this for at least a week. No red on face yet, just the combs that I thought were huge for their age. Are they absolutely cockerels? >.< I'll be so disappointed if they are. The white(?) is skittish, but the black has SO much personality; I just adore him.

I think the black one is a cockerel, the white one has me thinking, post more pics as the white one gets older.

Congratulations on your new chicks.

 

[hotrodflash]

Hooray! A NN thread! Alright, fellow Turken-folk, I need gender opinions. These little guys are only roughly 4 weeks old (maybe more..got at a critter swap), but they've both had huge combs like this for at least a week. No red on face yet, just the combs that I thought were huge for their age. Are they absolutely cockerels? >.< I'll be so disappointed if they are. The white(?) is skittish, but the black has SO much personality; I just adore him.

I think they are both are cockerels, my 10 week old pullets combs are not even that large yet.

 

[chicken farmer]

Do turkens go broody a lot??

 

[Kassaundra]

Hooray! A NN thread! Alright, fellow Turken-folk, I need gender opinions. These little guys are only roughly 4 weeks old (maybe more..got at a critter swap), but they've both had huge combs like this for at least a week. No red on face yet, just the combs that I thought were huge for their age. Are they absolutely cockerels? >.< I'll be so disappointed if they are. The white(?) is skittish, but the black has SO much personality; I just adore him.

NN are one of the hardest for me to sex young, I do not know if this will help you but here is a pic of a girl right around the age of yours





and a boy the same age




So I'm thinking two girls??????

 

[ShayBaby]

Shew! And I thought generally sexing silkies was tricky. Thanks for the feedback so far guys! At least I can keep my fingers crossed!

 

[Flowerbh]

Shew! And I thought generally sexing silkies was tricky. Thanks for the feedback so far guys! At least I can keep my fingers crossed!

I've only hatched one group of NN chicks, but it has been my experience that the males had lots of red around the jaw/ear area even at 4 weeks. I am guessing females. They may just be comeing from a LARGE combed background.



See all the red around their ears and jaw?

 

[Kassaundra]

Took some pics of the crew at 11 days old today