Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

LOL! Yeah....I've seen a few people get their heads bitten off by calling their Easter Eggers chickens Ameraucanas. Some people are very polite in pointing out the difference, and some come across as zealots. Me? I just want some good meat birds and lots of eggs. I'm maintaining a line of pure NNs, and a line of pure Bielefelders. Everything else I'm using to breed for heat tolerance and overall hardiness, good meat size with fast growth, friendly disposition, and then my good egg layers. The fact that I get some pretty feather colors is just a bonus.

What I'm doing also but of course with some other 'just because I like it' projects around lol

don't know if you remember the mostly white funny looking broad bodied chick? glad I kept him also... excellent for meat breeding but.. he also looks possibly dwarfed. Massive body, just not tall.

 

[DesertChic]

What I'm doing also but of course with some other 'just because I like it' projects around lol

don't know if you remember the mostly white funny looking broad bodied chick? glad I kept him also... excellent for meat breeding but.. he also looks possibly dwarfed. Massive body, just not tall.

Nothing wrong with short and squat in the chicken world, LOL.

I was expecting my Dorking-mixes to all be shorter, but they're all of normal height. Three of the girls are turning out to be rather "petite", and I'll probably cull two of those because they're so flighty and so mean to my Silkie girl. The other is very sweet, so she's getting a stay of execution for now. The other three are beginning to fill out nicely, but one of these larger girls is also very flighty and mean. She may go also for the sake of helping to fill my freezer, and I'll hold on to the other two at least until they start laying. If they turn out to be good egg layers I'll keep them to add white eggs to what I sell each week. My customers LOVE all the different colored eggs, LOL!

Right now my main concern is getting rid of the swarm of Africanized bees that decided to camp out in the tree right by my chicken condo and cabin/barn since yesterday afternoon. So far they've been pretty docile, but I just know they'll decide that the barn would make a perfect "nest", and then I'll be paying a small fortune to get rid of the dang things.

 

[Phill98]

@DesertChic I love that rooster's head type and leg color. I have never seen that color in legs, what are they, green?

@Kassaundra, is Shakespeare even breeding your hens? I ask this because I was out today with my chickens all day and I didn't saw my rooster even trying to. Maybe that is the reason of infertility in your eggs?
Did anyone else notice this?!?

 

[DesertChic]

@DesertChic I love that rooster's head type and leg color. I have never seen that color in legs, what are they, green?

They're actually a pale blue/gray. I do have a NN Turken pullet with green legs though.

 

[Phill98]

They're actually a pale blue/gray. I do have a NN Turken pullet with green legs though. 

Love them either way!

 

[Kassaundra]

@DesertChic I love that rooster's head type and leg color. I have never seen that color in legs, what are they, green?

@Kassaundra , is Shakespeare even breeding your hens? I ask this because I was out today with my chickens all day and I didn't saw my rooster even trying to. Maybe that is the reason of infertility in your eggs?
Did anyone else notice this?!?

I'll pay attention better to see. He is acting / looking off to me, nothing I can put my finger on, Gary says I'm "seeing or imagining" things, but I don't think so.

 

[Phill98]

I'll pay attention better to see.  He is acting / looking off to me, nothing I can put my finger on, Gary says I'm "seeing or imagining" things, but I don't think so.

My rooster is moulting. Maybe that is the reason. You may have different problem.
I hope that you are actually are imagining (not in bad way, just don't want for your roo to be bad)

Do you plan to keep him for next year(s)?

 

[DesertChic]

I'll pay attention better to see. He is acting / looking off to me, nothing I can put my finger on, Gary says I'm "seeing or imagining" things, but I don't think so.

Never doubt a "mother's" instinct.

I hope he turns out to be okay.

 

[draye]

Some pictures of the naked babies:

Most of the blacks and blues.

The Splashes.

These 12 have some blacks and blues in tge bunch but carry a beard so I put them in with the rest.

All the chicks in these 3 photos are from two of my runs. A total of 27. 1 run had a Blue Jersey giant rooster over 4 Naked Neck hens.

The other run had a Blue Copper ( or Wheaten) Naked Neck rooster that had 5 hens both Naked Neck and other ( NN/EE crosses) I think this is where the beards are coming in. I'm hoping I'll be able to tell which came from which as they mature.

 

[draye]

Here are some more from two different runs.

These are from a Silver Barred Naked Neck ( basically a Black Sex Link) x of a black crossbred hen ( 1/2 Black Jersey Giant 1/4 each of Easter Egger and Production Red)

These two are from a Red pea combed naked Neck rooster ( 1/2 NN and 1/4 each Easter Egger and Production Red) out of a Welsummer hen.