Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Miss Lydia]

Huh,...Solid buff hens? I have several hens and pullets by accident but NO cocks/cockerels.

I'm trying to make amends Miss Lydia...I still have the sense of humor I had when I was 16 years old. Time has ravaged my mature body but the mind has been in arrested development for decades.

You make me laugh HB,

 

[Miss Lydia]

Not too late to slather the duck knobs with the blue 'miracle cream'.

I have been HB he loves it..

 

[hellbender]

You make me laugh HB,

 

[Miss Lydia]

What a nice pic, thanks.

 

[FaerieChicken]

He looks like his tail feathers just got pulled out (not actually rumpless like an Araucana).

No, he's always been this way! Just no butt, makes him look a little funny but sometimes when he jumps up it looks cute!

 

[FaerieChicken]

Here is the buff NN with my 1 1/2 yo buff orp

Here is her top view, I don't recall noticing any other colors in her tail!

 

[FaerieChicken]

Great pics. He's a handsome roo. He has the tail bone/parson's nose? hard lump where the tail ought be. True tailless don't have that, just an abrupt end to the spine.

BTW is your pullet solid buff? Especially no other color on tail? That's rather unusual... solid buff all over is very hard to achieve.


that's not helping hellbender lol

I ran my hand down his spine and there is no bump, it just stops abruptly. His rear has always looked that way. I guess they could be tail feathers, but they are pretty like the others I have seen, so I don't think he will have fancy cool tail feathers like other flashy roos!

 

[Kev]

I ran my hand down his spine and there is no bump, it just stops abruptly. His rear has always looked that way. I guess they could be tail feathers, but they are pretty like the others I have seen, so I don't think he will have fancy cool tail feathers like other flashy roos!

He may be a true rumpless, like the real Araucanas. It's genetic(dominant) and would be valuable for someone who wants a line of rumpless NN. I'm guessing he is not pure for the rumpless gene so about half of his babies would have normal tails and half varying amounts of rumpless. In that way it makes him a little more special?

I do see some color on the tails of that pullet with those new pics viewed full size. Beautiful birds.

Hellbender- it's the 100% buff, including the main tail feathers and primaries that is hard, especially on roosters.. similar to problem of solid black roosters but overall solid buff seems harder- another problem in solid buffs is the pyle areas on roosters being darker than ground color.

Buff with some color-either gray or black- on tails is very easy to get. That can take just one hit of the Columbian gene, especially on a wheaten base(main reason a lot of hatchery stock are black tail buffs or reds). But very rarely are they solid buff.. needs other genes to make a clean buff like buff orpingtons. That's why I was surprised at first to see a solid buff NN. I suspect some solid colored birds were involved in FaerieChicken's stock's ancestry.

 

[FaerieChicken]

I wish I did have more details to give on their lineage, but I got the chicks from a local lady who has so many different breeds If chickens and quail! She even has a Tom turkey that doesn't know he's a turkey and has a flock of girls (chickens) he tends to! It's so cute!
I think she may have got the chicks from a local hatchery! Or she purchased eggs and brooded them herself!

 

[Kassaundra]

Kev, have you hatched any next generation chicks from the Okie chickens?