Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Nava]

Some have trouble telling at that age, just the other day I was looking at my own and I had separated the cockerels in 1 pen and I had a pullet in there.

If you post pics we migh be able to help a little

Cockerels develop a bigger and redder comb
first.

 

[douglashawk]

A couple of the pics of the Bantam Turken/NN ckicks I got from Dunlap Hatchery

 

[Flowerbh]

so then you can not go by the coloring of the neck when they are chicks only when they are roosters? are there any ways of knowing what they are when they are only chicks?

In my experience, my male chicks got red necks very early. The females did not.

 

[Flowerbh]

So how come all my children (family reunion!) all got together and renamed "Buzzie".....to Toupee?

 

[theuglyduckling]

i have been trying to go by the coloring on their neck but i dont think it will work. my black nn chick has a darker coloring but is that because it is a black feathered chick?

in the furture when i get dorkings i want to cross a dorking with a nn and see what it looks like. i tried to search on here to see if any one has any but havent been able to find some.

 

[Kev]

im sorry i do not have a camera right now. i need to buy one.

some have bow ties and some dont. some also only have some specks of feathers on their neck too. i know i have some patdrige ones too. some are dark and some light. i think i might also have a wheaten in there too. but who knows because i bought them from the feed store and those people have no idea what they were doing. the guy who gave me the chicks thought that the black feathered chicks were males and the other ones that werent black were females which i found very hard to believe. i thought i read somewhere that males have a redder neck than the females or am i wrong?

aww, all of us would love to see your new babies. by the way welcome to the forum!

Yes the males have a redder neck but that only happens when they are old enough to have roo hormones(starts at several weeks old), and as full adults it is way obvious.

Color of little baby chicks doesn't have to do with sex... aside from very specific crosses like if you use a black and white hen with a red/black rooster, all of the black and white babies will be boys and the brown/black ones will be girls. This is because the Silver gene is a sex linked gene.. Silver gene makes the birds black and white instead of brown/black. Understand though, if the rooster is black and white, then this will not work for sexing the babies. So you can be sure from very specific crosses using specific colors.

 

[Kev]

uesless with no pictures.

Well, a little desappointed because I ended up with just one red pullet from this spring hatch really like her.

I had to let the others go

Ended up with ( girls )
3 reds
2 BLR
3 whites
3 splash
6 blue

I'm waiting a little longer to decide on the black ones but it looks like I could end up with a couple

I'm set on my rosters
I'm keeping a couple of extras for every color just in case

I'm going to put the extras in my show pens and take them around the world until I need them to breed.

And out of nowhere I got me a buff pullet
(( SO HAPPY!!!!))

I'm going to put her with my white roo and go from there ( since I don't have a buff ) and hopefully soon ill have my very own buff line

 

[Flowerbh]

These were two males. They developed red around their ear/neck area very early.

 

[Kev]

Oh nice! I love the combination of black with clean yellow legs, that is quite the feat, especially on hens. There may be a chance she may turn out to be mottled... will find out when she finally molts to her first adult feathers.

A couple of the pics of the Bantam Turken/NN ckicks I got from Dunlap Hatchery

 

[Kev]

i have been trying to go by the coloring on their neck but i dont think it will work. my black nn chick has a darker coloring but is that because it is a black feathered chick?

in the furture when i get dorkings i want to cross a dorking with a nn and see what it looks like. i tried to search on here to see if any one has any but havent been able to find some.

Yes some black feathered chicks will have dark skin around the faces and upper neck. generally, girls keep this dark area for a way long time and boys lose this fast but this is not a hard and fast rule. How old are the chicks?

the dorking cross will throw short legged NN with the extra toe. the legs may not be as short as on pure dorkings though.