Naked Neck/Turken Thread

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Hipatall what fun ! GREAT PICTURES ! What is the history of the bantam girls, ie did you breed them ? Your girls look as if they have Serama mixed into them since their eyes are so hugh ? I love the LF eggs but I just now have become interested in having bantams after I can home with a white Showgirl pair. In the incubator, I have 18 Ameraucana BBS incubating and sure hope some of those babies BECOME !!! I would love more bantams down the line. I want NN bantams !!!!! And I want them just as pretty as your girls and the most handsome rooster also.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Hipeatall! Those will be some cute and colorful chicks! I do love a frizzled Naked Neck (and a frizzle and a Naked Neck).
I moved these 2 little girls in with a black-skin blue frizzle NN guy today. Also put my 5 birchen MGB girls (who no longer have a mate) in that pen --- boy, did the sparks fly for a few minutes.
Hi IdealisticRoo! I have NN green-eggers here. I'll email with the details.

Lisa

 

[daisychick]

What will I get if I cross a regular feathered naked neck with a silkie? Will the chicks have silkie feathers or not? I don't have any naked necks yet but I do have some cooking in the incubator right now

 

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My little showgirl laid her first egg today. It is sooooo cute !!!! Will post pictures later.

As soon as Kev is back in town he will tell you and I suppose the you will get some % of regular naked neck and maybe 25% of silkie feather NN or show girls but I am not sure of the % but soon some one will tell you.

 

[Kev]

Hey Monty, I liked Lisa and Sooner's answers. I'd also have suggested two pens- JG roo over your black NN and NN roo over JG hens. I'm not familiar with JG, don't think I've even seen one in person.. but Lisa brought up a great point, do a comparison between the two pens, see if one throws better looking or meets your standards and go from there. Be especially useful if something happens to be sex linked or ??? happens to be involved in your project. No idea if there's actually any, just a thought...

If you wanted as big as possible birds, I'd still suggest the two pens and then cross the chicks from each pen with each other, using the best looking, healthiest and biggest birds. You should get some pure NN and some good sized birds out of this. But also do another pen of NN x JG cross bird(s) with pure JG, especially if you really like the JG type or something else about them- this pen will give you birds with 'more' JG blood and you can use these birds to breed with the second generation birds above.

Sure would like to see pictures of birds from this project!

 

[Kev]

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Yea! We do! C'mon, more pictures from everybody.

I showed mine(lav and cuckoo chicks) now your turn to show!

 

[Kev]

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Sure you didn't take rollers or hot curlers to your chicks? Great curl on those wings! Would love to see pictures of them a couple weeks later with feathers on body.

 

[Kev]

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SO! She was the one after all!

 

[Kev]

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I think Lisa's the one you want- saw she replied already.

I have colored egger turkens too, especially in LF laying greens, blues, pinkish, tans, light browns sometimes tan with white spots.. However they look like regular turkens(they are all single comb too) except for deliberately bred wide range of colors- cuckoo roo over blacks, blues, cuckoo, blue tail buff, red.. last hatch of chicks from them threw a VERY wide range of color chicks.

Curious- anybody working on colored egg NN or dark egger NN? I used to have dark egger NNs, turken x Araucana crossed with Marans then Welsumer roo over those Marans cross hens. Some laid fairly dark eggs, some laid really dark green eggs. Unfortunately this was way early days on Internet and got rid of them eventually.. had I known olive eggers would eventually become pretty popular.... back then people generally frowned on this concept, darker green eggs were regarded as 'ugly'.

The Welsumer x Marans cross chicks were beautiful, especially the very crele looking roosters. Very flashy. Heavy meaty birds too.

 

[Kev]

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Thanks for pics! I like that mostly white girl a lot. The black one too.... not too common to see solid blacks with yellow legs(her legs have a lot of duskiness, but that's a common problem in yellow leg blacks, especially "cock bred" lines). I personally like the type of all 3 girls too.

Be sure to post the BeBaby pics!