Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[DesertChic]

Still taking guesses- it is not 8 chicks...

I absolutely LOVE this photo! Momma has the most lovely, contented expression on her face, and those babies!!! So cute! May I "borrow" this photo for my wallpaper? It totally makes my heart smile.

 

[Kev]

I absolutely LOVE this photo! Momma has the most lovely, contented expression on her face, and those babies!!! So cute! May I "borrow" this photo for my wallpaper? It totally makes my heart smile.

Oh wow, thank you for the huge compliment! Sure, go ahead.

 

[Kev]

My chicks are now 17 days old and I have not had any interested in anyone buying them.

So sad. The little boys are already starting to get large combs. It is tough in these parts since there is so much competition with feed stores this time of year that sell "pullets". However, no one has Turkens...just me!

Maybe I'll have more luck in May selling started pullets. Once they are off the heat lamp people will hopefully snatch them up. I didn't really want to keep the chicks in the house that long, but I have no other option. LOL They sure a cute though...just wish I could sell about half of them.

Yeah that's how it rolls. Fly off the shelves or just sit and collect feathers for a while... you just never know.

Sometimes the market for POL pullets gets just crazy, then nobody's looking...

 

[draye]

Here are two Naked Necks I hatched from learycow:

One is yellow with a lot of red coming in in the wing area. The other is white but I look for a reddish look to come on as she feathers out. My guess is the reddest one will be a cockerel and the white one will be a pullet.

These were a NN rooster over Golden Comet hens.

 

[draye]

This is the lone NN chick that get he'd from my crossing a Black Jersey Giant rooster over green egg laying hens one if those hens was my first Green Egger Naked Neck pullet I raised.

Since I'm giving up the GENZn project I'm going to try keeping this lines of hens , they have been great layers. I'm planning on breeding them back to laying brown eggs and single combs.

What do you all think the above NN chick, it has a single comb. Cockerel or pullet. I think it is looking like a cockerel myself.

 

[Phill98]

My chicks are now 17 days old and I have not had any interested in anyone buying them.     So sad.  The little boys are already starting to get large combs.  It is tough in these parts since there is so much competition with feed stores this time of year that sell "pullets".  However, no one has Turkens...just me!

Maybe I'll have more luck in May selling started pullets.  Once they are off the heat lamp people will hopefully snatch them up.  I didn't really want to keep the chicks in the house that long, but I have no other option.  LOL  They sure a cute though...just wish I could sell about half of them.  

Well here in Croatia most of the people are CRAZY about naked necks! People can't find NN chicks only because they get sold so fast!

 

[Kev]

Well here in Croatia most of the people are CRAZY about naked necks! People can't find NN chicks only because they get sold so fast!

What is it about NN that makes them popular in your country?

A person who used to be a regular here was of Greek ancestry, he said NN were very popular and well liked in Greece.

I've read bits here and there about NN in different countries and areas being held in high regard- some places in India, Africa, South America(many of theirs also lay blue eggs). A common thread was they did better than other breeds, including introduced "Western" breeds like rhode island reds etc.

Out here, they definitely are not "popular" but they are becoming better accepted than before. Sometimes when I sell my birds, the buyer will mention they had been looking for NN for a very long time and so they are extremely exited I have them for sale, some of them are just so excited they buy all of what I have for sale.

The more usual story though, is someone who came for something else- for me it usually was for peafowl, the person would have no interest in NN before seeing the birds- oh ewww they are so ugly! I do NOT want any! No no no!... and end up leaving with one or a few.

Another odd thing- it comes from all sorts of people, from friends of family or people coming for peacocks or other breeds of chickens just assuming really weird things about the NN... like they were feather picked by each other, they had mites, and in one case- someone thought I actually SHAVED their necks even though I'd shown him NN chicks not even a month old yet.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Draye are you giving up the green egger naked neck project? What does GENZn stand for?

 

[draye]

Draye are you giving up the green egger naked neck project? What does GENZn stand for?

Well almost giving it up, I'm keeping the one non-NN hen and her daughter that Kay the green egg. I'm not going to purposely get them to stop laying the green egg but by breeding them to NN that doesn't carry the gene for the blue egg, I don't know how far in the future it will continue.

That was supposed to be GENN (Green Egger Naked Neck). Sometimes my fat fingers hit the wrong buttons and the.z gets in the way. Lol.

The thread for them is still open so if you can use it you're welcome to. I'll be keeping an eye on it to see if anyone else will be breeding them.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Draye you have posted some really good looking naked necks. As long as you keep those pretty colored naked necks coming, egg color doesn't matter, IMO.