Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

I got a Frizzle NN a few weeks ago that I have him with some broiler hens, I hope in a few generations to get some 15lb frizzle nn roos. Maybe breed him to some shamos and get some frizzle shamos.

that I have got to see...

 

[alohachickens]

Great blog and pictures. See, turkens make everything better.....

As I was reading, had fun calling this line Hulas or Tourists.... lol

Great chickens, yes. Been very happy with the Turkens.

Surprisingly cuddly for being so creepy looking. This pack of little mini-dinos has been following me all over the yard when they free range and even allow me to pick them up and pet them. The large rooster (who is half Sussex) is especially friendly. I haven't been able to get a single good picture of him, he runs at the camera. Kind of a shame, because he's very nice! The pics just don't show it though. He looks all awkward! But if you felt him, he's big and very solid already. Very wide and well built.

But in photos he looks like a dork:





Guess we'll have to wait until he gets past the awkward teenager phase . . .

 

[sharkman]

How do you manage to keep the broiler hens around so long?

They are slow broilers, 1.1 white and 2.2 black. I free range and don't really feed them anything just what thay can scrounge, steal or I drop. They are 10 months old now and really nice. Roos are over 15 lbs and the hens lay everyday they even go broody 2 have sat and hatched eggs. After I get some f2 hens I will breed them to the broiler roos. also a friend has a fast broiler roo he is breeding and I may get a few chicks to add in. The great thing about NN and frizzle is it is so easy to breed into others.

 

[DesertChic]

Great chickens, yes. Been very happy with the Turkens.

Surprisingly cuddly for being so creepy looking. This pack of little mini-dinos has been following me all over the yard when they free range and even allow me to pick them up and pet them. The large rooster (who is half Sussex) is especially friendly. I haven't been able to get a single good picture of him, he runs at the camera. Kind of a shame, because he's very nice! The pics just don't show it though. He looks all awkward! But if you felt him, he's big and very solid already. Very wide and well built.

But in photos he looks like a dork:





Guess we'll have to wait until he gets past the awkward teenager phase . . .

LOL! I'm convinced that avoiding the camera is a chicken's true ultimate goal in in life. Dorky or not, he's beautiful!

 

[flower]

Never seen a chicken born. Seen many hatch though.

What us the father? Madagascar?

picky picky

 

[draye]

picky picky

Just having a little fun. Like the time I used herd instead if flock. Just using what pops into your head as you're typing.

 

[CliffB]

I got a Frizzle NN a few weeks ago that I have him with some broiler hens, I hope in a few generations to get some 15lb frizzle nn roos. Maybe breed him to some shamos and get some frizzle shamos.

That's exactly what she is. Frizzled NN Rooster X Broiler Hen.

 

[jgoldy2]

Quote: Wow we thought it would be hard to do but you manage

 

[Kassaundra]

I guess I should have mentioned my reasoning too....the same as your's except I didn't pick up on the color factor.

Like many people, I've always favored the cocks but without the hens, there would be a serious dearth of males!!!

A good laugh...I miscalculated the thickness on our blue gill pond and I'm still wet from my toes to my teats... It's plenty warm in the house but I just can't seem to get dry, after being inside for more than 45 minutes. The temp was negative 4 but seemed so much colder with that wind whipping around me.

I hope everyone else's day starts off and ends better than mine!!!!!!! lololol

EDIT: Jason has just informed me that the 'woman in the house' has requested a 'reasonable shelter', 6' tall electric fence put up around said pond for something she has wanted for a long time...a flock of Moscovy ducks. Both Jason and I are not happy with the prospect of duck sheit every where because we both know the fence is a joke, even with clipped wings and a pond. Our only hope would be that Jason gets the 4-wheeler in the garage and everything freezes and gets snowed over quickly before Ariel begins measuring and walking off distaces.

Who am I kidding...the ducks are just about assured and the blue gills are virtually under assault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Goodby delicious little fishies...lol

Don't clip wing feathers, pinion them as day olds (or close to it) they absolutely can not fly pinioned.

 

[Kev]

Hello Kassaundra! Long time no see.


in pinioning how much of the wing is cut off?