Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Wait, am I wrong? Is it actually the presence of a feather making it look like a digit in the first pic? For example in the last picture there is another feather up on the arm and it creates a similar look under the skin..

 

[Morrison610]

I finally got a good little shot of my featherless silky! Any ideas if it might he a little hen or Roo? Also.. no idea how i got him, hiS sisters were all very normal. He is my only, "special" baby.

AMAZING!!!

 

[michellemire]

How old is the chick

 

[draye]

Don't let anyone tell you that a Naked Neck hen won't set.
I've heard that they are few and far between on becoming setters.
I had one that tried to become broody last month, took one off the nest yesterday trying to break her up. These two hens I know nothing about their background could be broodies I. There some where.

Now today found another one that is trying to set. This hen is a third generation that I breed from this line. Never had this line shown a tendency for broodness, but she does.

 

[hellbender]

Don't let anyone tell you that a Naked Neck hen won't set.
I've heard that they are few and far between on becoming setters.
I had one that tried to become broody last month, took one off the nest yesterday trying to break her up. These two hens I know nothing about their background could be broodies I. There some where.

Now today found another one that is trying to set. This hen is a third generation that I breed from this line. Never had this line shown a tendency for broodness, but she does.

From my experience, some are notorious setters and many are hard to break.

 

[Kassaundra]

From my experience, some are notorious setters and many are hard to break.

Mine are setting fools! lol

 

[draye]

Mine are setting fools! lol

Yeah I remember you saying that. I was just making a statement because most the hatchery catalogs list them as non-setters. Other folks say infrequently setters. Until this year I've never had one that wanted to set.

Must be something in the bloodlines I'm breeding.

 

[hellbender]

I don't believe most of what is said in the hatchery descriptions. over the last couple years, I brow-beat Murray Mcmurray into changing their description of NNs in a couple ways...sorta. I had them change the breed from poor to excellent foragers and likely to set...also I STRONGLY suggested they change the picture representing the breed. They has one that had been de-beaked quite severely and they put up one that had not been.

I wouldn't buy even one bird from them but I didn't like the way they represented the NN. I suppose I might have inadvertently improved MM chance of sales!!!

 

[Kev]

Thank you! They had the same horrible picture up for YEARS... it seemed like it was one of the only few breeds pictured instead of illustrated... it sure seemed like they deliberately tried to make this wonderful breed as horrible as possible.

Here's the link to the picture Ron talked about: https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/turkens_naked_necks.html

btw- my very first NN came from McMurray. She was a wonderful huge hen that followed me around like a puppy.

I had emailed the person behind the Henderson breed chart that was prominent online for a while, it said NN were medium layers and prone to sunburn. Sigh...........

around that time, I was getting so many comments about sunburn on them- like I MUST apply sunblock on them(do they have any NN? you guess...) or how often do I need to apply it and so on. Some buyers in fact did not want to get NN thinking they would be too much work and were happy to get some after being informed.

Broodiness IS genetic. I don't know the genetics behind it though.

 

[ochochicas]

Another pic of my 9 week olds. They were all laying on the door mat at the back door because it was raining.