Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[SigningChickens]

I got Bertha 4 days ago and she is yet to lay. Should I be worried!

 

[julhale]

This is my boy Vlad - a two year old roo

 

[PsycoPeep]

Slow whistle - wow! He's good lookin'!

 

[Kev]

i have a naked neck hen that had chicks ,but some of the chicks were not naked necks when the non naked necks get old enough to have chicks and are not bread to another naked neck. will some of the chicks get the naked necks gene from their grandma

They won't. No naked neck= does not have the gene in any way. Totally gone.

Only way to breed more naked necks is to have at least one parent with naked neck every generation.

 

[Kev]

Wow! Very nice! I would do a whistle too, but can't whistle at all... lol

Is he naturally totally bare necked- right from hatch? If so, that makes him a little rare. Not that many total bare necks in large fowl. I got turkens from many sources over the years, only one line had total bare necks and even so only a few of them would be born with it.

This is my boy Vlad - a two year old roo

 

[Canieldonrad]

I've only ever had 2 turkens. One hatched from eggs gathered at our local county fair(my father used to run the poultry program). One from Murray McMurray mystery chick.

Now this is against my better judgement. But I would really like to play around with the Naked Neck gene since it is a dominant trait and would be easily distinguished in birds that were crossed. Looking through this thread at some of the crosses people have done, its very entertaining.

 

[Kev]

I've only ever had 2 turkens. One hatched from eggs gathered at our local county fair(my father used to run the poultry program). One from Murray McMurray mystery chick.

Now this is against my better judgement. But I would really like to play around with the Naked Neck gene since it is a dominant trait and would be easily distinguished in birds that were crossed. Looking through this thread at some of the crosses people have done, its very entertaining.

how is that 'against better judgement'? it can only be improvement!

It is fun. many years ago went through a mad phase of crossing naked neck with almost every trait there is in the chickendom. some results were fascinating.

 

[Habibs Hens]

how is that 'against better judgement'? it can only be improvement!

It is fun. many years ago went through a mad phase of crossing naked neck with almost every trait there is in the chickendom. some results were fascinating.

I saw a NN Asil

now that was freeky but I liked it

because it was a cross the breeder was inbreeding them and asking anyone that had more to contact him to stop inbreeding

 

[Kassaundra]

Well I've looked over the NN chickie doos for any Sc genes I'll post some of the most likely candidates








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What do you guys think see any Sc chicks????? The lighter skinned ones I wasn't to sure about so hard to see the tiny scales even enlarged

 

[Kev]

I saw a NN Asil

now that was freeky but I liked it

because it was a cross the breeder was inbreeding them and asking anyone that had more to contact him to stop inbreeding

If they were from cross with Asil, the breeder could just breed to unrelated Asil to bring new blood?

I've done cross of turken with Asil(forgot which line) before they were cool looking, especially the ones that got very heavy brows, these really looked like vultures or dinosaurs.