Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

So far I'm loving them. Most are very colorful and the others have nice colors.

I'm really anxious for them to grow so that I can get a good batch from them. I've got a few lighter colors growing off that I'd like to see some nice crosses with.

Yeah! So you have both cockerels and pullets?

 

[draye]

Yeah!  So you have both cockerels and pullets?  

Yes, both sexes. Both Naked Neck and regular Alohas. So I have the potential to make more Naked Neck and keep them going for a while.

 

[Flowerbh]

I loved the coloring of this NN, but had to sell him because he was a he!


Last year I sold a Frizzled NN roo to a friend. Just hatched some of his eggs. The hens were Marans, OEs and EEs. 6 are NN and about half of the 16 are frizzled! And, the roo was hatched from a blue egg layer, so hoping for some fun colored eggs from these frizzled cuties!

 

[draye]

@Kev
Here is 2 shots if one if the Naked Neck Aloha's:

There is a lot of white on this one. I'm sure there will be more color filling in as they grow.

Next is a shot of three chicks: both Aloha and NN Aloha. As you can tell with the chick on the left has way more color than the chick above. They range all colors in between the two. Some with a lot of white with light buff color to almost no white at all.

The next photo is an unrelated chick. This is the only one left of three that hatch from @learycow Red NN rooster over Golden Comet hens. Hopefully make a good layer and the light red-buff color throughout will help the Aloha Naked Necks along also.

Sorry I can't get any better shots. Trying to do it by myself and also not a very good photographer.

 

[DesertChic]

I just butchered my 2nd NN cockerel today. What a difference from the first one! As expected the process is getting a bit easier, but it was the comparison of this carcass to the previous one that really proved educational for me. I had long ago selected this guy as a dinner guest based upon his slower rate of weight gain and flighty personality, but once I had him plucked and started to really clean him I came to understand fully why he was a perfect cull instead of a breeder. He had pretty feathers, but that was probably his only really good attribute. He processed out at 3.2 pounds at 17 weeks on a really tight, narrow frame. I'm beginning to feel a bit better about my breeder selection standards. I've still got a lot to learn, but at least I'm making progress.

Thanks for dinner, Pop Tart! And thanks for contributing to my education.

 

[Phill98]

I loved the coloring of this NN, but had to sell him because he was a he! Last year I sold a Frizzled NN roo to a friend. Just hatched some of his eggs. The hens were Marans, OEs and EEs. 6 are NN and about half of the 16 are frizzled! And, the roo was hatched from a blue egg layer, so hoping for some fun colored eggs from these frizzled cuties!

He is beautiful I also like the fm pullet on the left

 

[Phill98]

I just butchered my 2nd NN cockerel today. What a difference from the first one! As expected the process is getting a bit easier, but it was the comparison of this carcass to the previous one that really proved educational for me. I had long ago selected this guy as a dinner guest based upon his slower rate of weight gain and flighty personality, but once I had him plucked and started to really clean him I came to understand fully why he was a perfect cull instead of a breeder. He had pretty feathers, but that was probably his only really good attribute. He processed out at 3.2 pounds at 17 weeks on a really tight, narrow frame. I'm beginning to feel a bit better about my breeder selection standards. I've still got a lot to learn, but at least I'm making progress.  

Thanks for dinner, Pop Tart! And thanks for contributing to my education. 

I don't even think about butchering. I just don't know how could I do that. But I know in a few years, I will have to do it.

 

[DesertChic]

I don't even think about butchering. I just don't know how could I do that. But I know in a few years, I will have to do it.

When I got my first flock of chickens I wasn't even considering meat birds, only egg layers. Then I realized that I put a lot of time and effort into rearing very healthy chickens, feeding them only organic food in the form of fermented feed and greens that I grow just for them, plus whatever they can forage in my yard. So....why was I still buying my chicken meat fro the grocery store? And that's when my small layer flock exploded into now nearly 50 chickens, and it only took about 6 months to happen. And for the record, the meat is fantastic!

 

[ochochicas]

I'm incubating nn eggs. My eggs weigh 60 grams. So adequate weight loss for these eggs would weight 20grams?

By lockdown (day 18) they should lose about 13% of their original weight. In your case that would be about 8 grams.

My eggs are weighed at 7 days and 14 days so I can adjust the humidity accordingly. If you are in the ballpark I wouldn't worry about it, but if your eggs have lost 20 grams you have a problem!

 

[Phill98]

When I got my first flock of chickens I wasn't even considering meat birds, only egg layers. Then I realized that I put a lot of time and effort into rearing very healthy chickens, feeding them only organic food in the form of fermented feed and greens that I grow just for them, plus whatever they can forage in my yard. So....why was I still buying my chicken meat fro the grocery store? And that's when my small layer flock exploded into now nearly 50 chickens, and it only took about 6 months to happen. And for the record, the meat is fantastic!

I know how good self-raised chickens taste. I also know that it is part of a process of keeping chickens and I'm fine with it when somebody else does it, but I still don't have the courage to do it.