Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[NewToFarming]

Hey welcome back to you too! Cluck Norris? He can kill you with his little hind toe?

Beautiful birds as usual. Salmon silkie/showgirls would be beautiful! Salmon is silver on wheaten.. not sure if there is wheaten in silkies in general(huge majority are partridge) but if you have silkied wheaten birds then that is do-able! if exact match does not matter, then breeding him over partridge silkies will give you "more or less like salmon" chicks- silver partridge but you also want to keep the girls that show a lot of red. Keeping red despite being silver is what makes salmon series so striking in color. Normally birds with silver have littrle or no red at all.

Thanks Kev! I don't believe there is wheaten in silkies but I do have regular partridge, blue partridge and silver partridge silkies here. I guess we could give it a shot! Thanks so much for the info. I know some but very little on the wheaten.

Shay....such gorgeous youngsters you got there!

 

[Easter eggers]

Hey guys quick question if i bred a bantam nn hen with a standard nn and kept breeding standards could i eventually get a standard thanks

 

[NewToFarming]

Kev...I have a genetic question for you since you are the guru! I have a non NN chick that is 5 to 6 weeks old and only has a few wing feathers on the tips of the wings and has down everywhere else. I noticed yesterday the down is getting thin and he is becoming naked in spots. Any ideas on this one? My week old chicks are more feathered than this little one. It is tiny but is eating drinking and running around fine! I never had a chick like this before.

 

[Kassaundra]

Kev, I have 3 of the new chicks that I believe are sc carriers. But I think 2 are males

still way to early to be sure, but ............

 

[uglychickens]

Kassaundra
Could you repost your pic of the SC carriers legs...
Thanks

 

[theuglyduckling]

does anyone elses chicks remind you of piranhas when you feed them treats? tonight i fed some chicken to them but i held it in my hand and let them eat it and it felt like it disappeared in less than a minute.

 

[Kassaundra]

Kassaundra
Could you repost your pic of the SC carriers legs...
Thanks

I will try and find it

 

[Kassaundra]

Took me a minute to find the pics but here they are


This one has the gene


this one does not.

 

[uglychickens]

Ah ok thank you!

 

[Kev]

Hey guys quick question if i bred a bantam nn hen with a standard nn and kept breeding standards could i eventually get a standard thanks

Yes. it's relatively easy in most cases as many bantams are small sized due to just one or two dwarfing genes. The fewer genes to "ditch" the easier it is. Go for it!