Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[flower]

Nice NN's, you should try showing the solid black one at a fair.

Those of us who like NN would like to see more of then entered in local shows. The black bird is handsome and certainly fits the standard to be shown. It might be fun for you to show.

 

[lanajc]

i love my turken she is one of my sweetest chickens she loves attention

 

[Kev]

Thank you that's what I feared. The rooster i had was supposed to be a hen. He was short and very wide with a bare sternum and thick legs and about 10 lbs which is why I'm thinking a cross. He was a dark blue with a huge bloody red band around his back just beautiful. I brought him to a show and my mom was feeding him and he jumped out of the cafe and attackedher, she needed stitches and made me sell him. Apparently a hawk got him. I'll call the feed store and see where they get their chicks. I have a gift certificate to cackle and I watched a video of their breeding stock noticed how many reds and buffs there was, a couple whites and blacks, I saw one blue

Was his sternum visible without handling and was it also red like on neck? If so, would suspect Cornish being part of the mix especially if he also had a pea comb.

It's to my understanding that a lot of hatcheries either get their breeding sources from other hatcheries or from a same source and/or may not actually breed a breed or color variety, either getting the chicks from another source or getting eggs and placing in their incubators. Some hatcheries seem to not have much of breeding birds, simply collecting eggs from various breeders and hatching for orders.

All that sharing from few common sources can really lean even an mixed color breed way off in a rather narrow direction. Seems that's what happened with hatchery stock NN- if a lot of founder were buff/red then it's inevitable a majority are going to be this color. That body color patter is also dominant... primarily because of the Co gene- it pushes out the black markings from the body to the neck and tail regions.

Good to know blue exists in hatchery stock, although with most of the general stock having Co it will be inevitable most blues would turn out to be red/buff with blue limited to the tails only.

It's not all bad though as the hatchery stock generally are very heavy and excellent layers of large, some extra/jumbo eggs. My very first one was from McMurray(guess what her name was,,,, LOL), naturally she was a buff hen.. but she got me hooked on the breed.

 

[Kev]

In agreement that the people who raise NN are more interested in untiled that for show and hence color is sometimes just a plus. And i have never seen a blue NN from a hatchery but I have noticed that hatcheries are starting to carry more BLRs in the Wyandotte breed. Also i have noticed that hatcheries are listing more breeds in the blue colors than they did in the past. I know this because I surf hatchery catalogs as much as garden catalogs. silly me

Ha! I did look a hatchery website not too long ago. was surprised they now have various breeds like Marans, welsumers, etc.

 

[Kev]

She's a beaut!

i love my turken she is one of my sweetest chickens she loves attention

 

[lanajc]

Shes an heirloom so to speak my grandfather always had them and he has been gone a little over 10 years now and she is one from his line im very proud of her

 

[silkielover5]

Was his sternum visible without handling and was it also red like on neck? If so, would suspect Cornish being part of the mix especially if he also had a pea comb.   

It's to my understanding that a lot of hatcheries either get their breeding sources from other hatcheries or from a same source and/or may not actually breed a breed or color variety, either getting the chicks from another source or getting eggs and placing in their incubators.  Some hatcheries seem to not have much of breeding birds, simply collecting eggs from various breeders and hatching for orders.  

All that sharing from few common sources can really lean even an mixed color breed way off in a rather narrow direction.  Seems that's what happened with hatchery stock NN- if a lot of founder were buff/red then it's inevitable a majority are going to be this color. That body color patter is also dominant... primarily because of the Co gene- it pushes out the black markings from the body to the neck and tail regions.

Good to know blue exists in hatchery stock, although with most of the general stock having Co it will be inevitable most blues would turn out to be red/buff with blue limited to the tails only.

It's not all bad though as the hatchery stock generally are very heavy and excellent layers of large, some extra/jumbo eggs.  My very first one was from McMurray(guess what her name was,,,,  LOL), naturally she was a buff hen..  but she got me hooked on the breed.  

yes his sternum was slightly showing without handling. His neck was very red which we figured was sunburn I even started putting sun screen on him. He had a large single comb. I email cackle and they said they have not had a blue hatch from their NN pen. I think I'm just going to try and cross them myself lol I just loved his body type it made him look so macho

 

[silkielover5]

So if I ended up crossing them would I want to use Cornish hens with nn rooster or the other way around?

 

[Nava]

These are only a few of the colors i have, im glad to announce that my third generation BLRNN are very much liked by me, they actually look like them but with a NN

Ill post some pics when I get around to it this weekend.

I have NN in the following colors
White,red,black,blue,splash,BLR and pink jejeje

 

[julhale]

I am interested in breeding frizzled turkens. I have frizzled cochins.... where do I start? Can I cross one of the cochins in to a turken or should I try to find a frizzled turken purebreed (or is there such a thing?)