Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[PsycoPeep]

It looks like a brown-red. WHich is kinda like a birchen (mostly black body w/silver/white head/neck feathers only it has red head/neck feathers vs silver). I had a couple of babies like this and called them bronze b/c I didn't know what they were - then someone told me they were birchen, then someone else corrected THEM and said birchens have silver, this one is a brown red. Geez, you'd think they'd come up w/something a little less boring than brown red. I prefer to still call 'em bronze, myself! LOL! Unfortunately, my 2 little ones I had like this didn't make it. Our space heater went on the fritz and make the laundry room they were in go off the scale. The space heater thermostat only goes up to 90 & it was flashing, meaning hotter than that, plus they had the heat lamp on them. I was at work and came home and found them that way in the middle of the night. It took out 8 of my 11 chicks that were in the bin, 7 of them being rare colored NN's. I lost 2 "bronze", 2 salmon, a black mottled, a blue mottled, and I can't think of what the last color was. I was crying! But I still have 1 partridge & 1 black left, both pullets, and then I found a trio of silver penciled at a swap meet back in June. So I snagged those guys. The only other ones I'm coming across are black and partridge. It's hard to find colors outside of that. I did go to a swap this last Sat. & I found a pr of buff banty NN's. The roo was 1 1/2 yrs old and the pullet was about the age to be ready to start laying. He was already mounting her at the swap. I should've snagged them, but I was hoping for red vs buff and I don't really want bantams, all my other ones are standard and I'd rather not have to keep adding more and more pens to separate everything. I know the feed mill about 1/2 hr away can order them pretty cheap, but they get them discounted from the hatcheries, (McMurray & Cackle), and I can't choose what I want. Knowing my luck I'd get stuck w/a ton of black & partridge and I don't want that. So I've been searching BYC, craigslist, other online classifieds, websites, generic searches, facebook groups, and I just can't find squat. Well, at any rate, your little one is cute as pie and here are a couple of pics of mine that seem to have similar coloring when they were little: (click on the picture and bring it up. You can see the coloring on them much better and see if you think they look like yours?) Yours looks older though and starting to feather.









These were my 2 salmons that didn't make it. 1 had a bow tie, the other didn't.








Here's my mottled that didn't make it.




Kass - any more hatchlings??

 

[draye]

It looks like a brown-red. WHich is kinda like a birchen (mostly black body w/silver/white head/neck feathers only it has red head/neck feathers vs silver). I had a couple of babies like this and called them bronze b/c I didn't know what they were - then someone told me they were birchen, then someone else corrected THEM and said birchens have silver, this one is a brown red. Geez, you'd think they'd come up w/something a little less boring than brown red. I prefer to still call 'em bronze, myself! LOL! Unfortunately, my 2 little ones I had like this didn't make it. Our space heater went on the fritz and make the laundry room they were in go off the scale. The space heater thermostat only goes up to 90 & it was flashing, meaning hotter than that, plus they had the heat lamp on them. I was at work and came home and found them that way in the middle of the night. It took out 8 of my 11 chicks that were in the bin, 7 of them being rare colored NN's. I lost 2 "bronze", 2 salmon, a black mottled, a blue mottled, and I can't think of what the last color was. I was crying! But I still have 1 partridge & 1 black left, both pullets, and then I found a trio of silver penciled at a swap meet back in June. So I snagged those guys. The only other ones I'm coming across are black and partridge. It's hard to find colors outside of that. I did go to a swap this last Sat. & I found a pr of buff banty NN's. The roo was 1 1/2 yrs old and the pullet was about the age to be ready to start laying. He was already mounting her at the swap. I should've snagged them, but I was hoping for red vs buff and I don't really want bantams, all my other ones are standard and I'd rather not have to keep adding more and more pens to separate everything. I know the feed mill about 1/2 hr away can order them pretty cheap, but they get them discounted from the hatcheries, (McMurray & Cackle), and I can't choose what I want. Knowing my luck I'd get stuck w/a ton of black & partridge and I don't want that. So I've been searching BYC, craigslist, other online classifieds, websites, generic searches, facebook groups, and I just can't find squat. Well, at any rate, your little one is cute as pie and here are a couple of pics of mine that seem to have similar coloring when they were little: (click on the picture and bring it up. You can see the coloring on them much better and see if you think they look like yours?) Yours looks older though and starting to feather.









These were my 2 salmons that didn't make it. 1 had a bow tie, the other didn't.








Here's my mottled that didn't make it.




Kass - any more hatchlings??

If you are refering to the top picture, that would be a partridge color.
The birchen that has the red instead of silver would be called Golden Birchen.

 

[draye]

It looks like a brown-red. WHich is kinda like a birchen (mostly black body w/silver/white head/neck feathers only it has red head/neck feathers vs silver). I had a couple of babies like this and called them bronze b/c I didn't know what they were - then someone told me they were birchen, then someone else corrected THEM and said birchens have silver, this one is a brown red. Geez, you'd think they'd come up w/something a little less boring than brown red. I prefer to still call 'em bronze, myself! LOL! Unfortunately, my 2 little ones I had like this didn't make it. Our space heater went on the fritz and make the laundry room they were in go off the scale. The space heater thermostat only goes up to 90 & it was flashing, meaning hotter than that, plus they had the heat lamp on them. I was at work and came home and found them that way in the middle of the night. It took out 8 of my 11 chicks that were in the bin, 7 of them being rare colored NN's. I lost 2 "bronze", 2 salmon, a black mottled, a blue mottled, and I can't think of what the last color was. I was crying! But I still have 1 partridge & 1 black left, both pullets, and then I found a trio of silver penciled at a swap meet back in June. So I snagged those guys. The only other ones I'm coming across are black and partridge. It's hard to find colors outside of that. I did go to a swap this last Sat. & I found a pr of buff banty NN's. The roo was 1 1/2 yrs old and the pullet was about the age to be ready to start laying. He was already mounting her at the swap. I should've snagged them, but I was hoping for red vs buff and I don't really want bantams, all my other ones are standard and I'd rather not have to keep adding more and more pens to separate everything. I know the feed mill about 1/2 hr away can order them pretty cheap, but they get them discounted from the hatcheries, (McMurray & Cackle), and I can't choose what I want. Knowing my luck I'd get stuck w/a ton of black & partridge and I don't want that. So I've been searching BYC, craigslist, other online classifieds, websites, generic searches, facebook groups, and I just can't find squat. Well, at any rate, your little one is cute as pie and here are a couple of pics of mine that seem to have similar coloring when they were little: (click on the picture and bring it up. You can see the coloring on them much better and see if you think they look like yours?) Yours looks older though and starting to feather.









These were my 2 salmons that didn't make it. 1 had a bow tie, the other didn't.








Here's my mottled that didn't make it.




Kass - any more hatchlings??

If you are refering to the top picture, that would be a partridge color.
The birchen that has the red instead of silver would be called Golden Birchen.

 

[Kassaundra]

Kass - any more hatchlings??

Funny you should ask!!!!!!

three more out and dry w/ pics of course. 4 still drying, and 8ish more eggs to go





This little one hatched out of a green egg




This little (boy? from the nostrils) from the hooda's egg



and a little EE from a green egg.

 

[Kassaundra]

Had to help out all the rest, had several quitters this time 6 that made it to candling, but at hatch had died at various times until hatch. Of the ones I had to help a couple died, the one I was most bummed about was a huge brown egg that had a beautiful huge chick that was obviously Sc carrier even in the shell!!!!!! And Kev will confirm how hard that is to tell so early. It had internally pipped and shrink wrapped, but had not broke through the shell so I didn't assist her until it was to late I didn't know they were shrink wrapping before external pipping. She was alive when I helped her, but was to weak, she just didn't have the strength left. All but one chick was NN this time even all the ones from the green eggs, wonder what that means about Oreo, my EE head roo?????? He still pretty much acts like head roo, but obviously Jaxom is doing his job! lol

 

[PsycoPeep]

Hooda? As in is it mixed w/a Houdan?? What a great idea! How cute that would be! My daughter has a Houdan named Horrace and we have nothing to breed him to. Maybe it'd be cute to breed him to our black NN pullet!

What do you mean it was Sc carrier? And they're all so lovely! Thanks for the pics!

 

[uglychickens]

I so want to find that breed that looks like it has devil horns and mate them to my NN's that would look so cool with the red necks and that comb! Unfortunately I can't find that breed here

 

[PsycoPeep]

These are the only ones I have at the moment. The mottled on the far right got attacked by our
goose and didn't make it. And below are our silver pencled ones.

 

[PsycoPeep]

Devil's horns? Hmm...not sure what breed you're talking about. Can you post a pic?

 

[uglychickens]

It looks like this. It's called a La Fleche... There from France but the houdan has the same comb, I think???