Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[ChickyChickens]

I am going to be setting 4 of my NN eggs! Cant wait for them to hatch...I love baby NN...

 

[maranfarmer563]

They are the coolest chicks,seems no two alike

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

ISO naked neck frizzle hatching eggs for purchase

I have hatched some of Dipsy's NN green egg frizzle eggs. Post office wasn't kind with the handling of the eggs so only 2 made it to hatch. Both were perfectly frizzled and a gorgeous blue! (I would post pics, but I no longer have them.)

 

[ochochicas]

My baby is 18 weeks and already over 5.5 pounds. He's now the biggest chicken we have on the farm. Just this week he's started showing some interested in the pullets (who are half his size). Unfortunately his broody momma was very low on the pecking order so he is very timid. I'm sure he'll come around with more time.

Hope to hatch some chicks from him this spring

 

[maranfarmer563]

Cool bird,looks like a duck wing game. Yup he will ready to breed this spring

 

[Kev]

beautiful boy. appears to be golden on top of duckwing. All that means he will throw both black and white or red/brown chicks.

 

[ochochicas]

How can you tell he is a duck wing? He was supposed to be a Wheaten marans/NN cross. His brothers hatched from Marans eggs and were supposed to be pure Wheaten marans, but they all had white heads so I sold them already. I don't think there is anyway the dad to the chicks was a Wheaten marans. The hen he is out of was black and white.

 

[Pyxis]

Here's a picture of the mottled bantams I'm working on. I love this little one. These pictures were taken at midnight under the light in the coop so they're not the greatest but you get the idea of the color. They're the sweetest little babies too. Seven weeks old.

 

[Kev]

How can you tell he is a duck wing? He was supposed to be a Wheaten marans/NN cross. His brothers hatched from Marans eggs and were supposed to be pure Wheaten marans, but they all had white heads so I sold them already. I don't think there is anyway the dad to the chicks was a Wheaten marans. The hen he is out of was black and white.

It's the white triangular area on his flight feathers.

Copper marans are crowwinged... their flight feathers are solid black. Wheaten marans are duckwinged- except their patch is red or tan.

Overly simple explanation- it refers to two different groups of the genetic base for patterns. There are two separate crow wing genes(gene notations: E, Er- extended black and birchen, respectively) and the duckwings are eWh, e+ and eb- wheaten, wild type, dark brown respectively.

Your roo would be expected result of a gold bird and a silver bird mating... this makes goldEN roosters. The gold gene makes for black and brown or red chickens, silver makes black and white chickens.

For example, the only genetic difference between buff and light brahmas is the former is gold, and the latter silver. Likewise for red duckwing and silver duckwing.

Golden is the name given to roosters that are genetically half silver and half gold. For reasons I don't know, sometimes they are black, white and gold colored.. rather beautiful color combination. Other times they are straight up black/white or grow up b/w and get a little yellow on the saddles or necks.

So "duckwing" doesn't exactly refer to a single gene... it refers to the roosters having that patch. Yet the wild type is regularly called red duckwing.. the hobby is full of confusing terminology.


Silver is sex linked, so hens cannot ever be golden, they can only be gold or silver. Your roo is proof of this- gold wheaten roo over a silver hen= golden or silver looking roosters and all gold hens.

 

[Kev]

Here's a picture of the mottled bantams I'm working on. I love this little one. These pictures were taken at midnight under the light in the coop so they're not the greatest but you get the idea of the color. They're the sweetest little babies too. Seven weeks old.

Pretty birdie! Interesting it's patterned like that so young. What sort of mottling do the parents have? Do you ever get the exchequer type mottling? I haven't worked with mottling very much.. the usual wisdom is they start out with penguin feathering.. so it;s a bit of a surprise to see yours like that so young.