Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

A couple of pics of my babies. The are EE turkens. They all have pea combs and should produce green or blue eggs. Adorable!

Nice looking chicks. Cute!

 

[FaerieChicken]

Oh my gosh, those are soooooo cuuuuuuttttteeee!

 

[FaerieChicken]

Do you guys ship fertile eggs? I am hoping I will have a broody momma next spring and if so, I would love to have some NN again, are they bantam? It doesn't matter, as long as they are sweet and cute, and become great addition to our variety! Of course I would not want them to be a part of any sort of breeding project, but they would have the opportunity to hatch out babies of their own as well later on. Will the NN gene carry on as a dominant gene? It would be nice, as I said before, it was a 50/50 thing with the ones we had hatched, but then again that could be because they were mated to the Sizzle and Silkie roos.... Right now we have a Plymouth Barred Rock roo, Egyptian Roo and I think the other is a Red Cap mix roo of some sort, except he doesn't have the dark legs as is standard, everything else, feather color and comb and build is right!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Good excuse to post pictures! I have a possible mottle also.. posted pictures of her a couple pages ago and on Aloha thread.

Alas, I need to find a time when I'm not slammed with work or when it's dark (it's hard to get chicken stuff done this time of year - I've already had to switch tractor moves from morning to evening because it's still dark when I need to start moving it to make it to work on time - not sure how it will work when it's dark when I leave and dark when I come home). Tomorrow is weighing day (if I can get home early enough), and they're pretty big, so it'll probably be a free for all trying to get that done with no time for photos (though I have one pullet who needs her leg band replaced). But I'll try - otherwise, weekend.

Fingers crossed on the mottling. And a few that @draye is calling a darker mottle (black with some brown) look a bit like a couple of mine...

- Ant Farm

 

[Phill98]

@draye I love the rooster number 9, he is special. Also I like the splash pullets!

@ochochicas Beautiful! What color were parents?

 

[chickengr]

any suggestion how to introduce NN to the flock? I tried once, put her in the coop with the others, but in the morning my roos tried to mate and the hens pecked her. I found her hiding and her neck was bleeding. so I put her back with her little flock. I have other 2 NN I want to put with the big flock but I am afraid to try. they already can see each other through the fence.

 

[draye]

Do you guys ship fertile eggs? I am hoping I will have a broody momma next spring and if so, I would love to have some NN again, are they bantam? It doesn't matter, as long as they are sweet and cute, and become great addition to our variety! Of course I would not want them to be a part of any sort of breeding project, but they would have the opportunity to hatch out babies of their own as well later on. Will the NN gene carry on as a dominant gene? It would be nice, as I said before, it was a 50/50 thing with the ones we had hatched, but then again that could be because they were mated to the Sizzle and Silkie roos.... Right now we have a Plymouth Barred Rock roo, Egyptian Roo and I think the other is a Red Cap mix roo of some sort, except he doesn't have the dark legs as is standard, everything else, feather color and comb and build is right! 

You said no project birds. Are you Looking for the APA standard colors? What are your goal with the Naked Neck?

Folks might can help better if they know what your goals and exactly what your looking for.

I have shipped eggs before and would do so again, but alas all mine are basically project colors.

Just keep checking back in the for sake section and the 2 auction threads.

any suggestion how to introduce NN to the flock? I tried once, put her in the coop with the others, but in the morning my roos tried to mate and the hens pecked her. I found her hiding and her neck was bleeding. so I put her back with her little flock. I have other 2 NN I want to put with the big flock but I am afraid to try. they already can see each other through the fence.

A lot depends on how many hens are in the run/coop. I usually never try to put just one at a time in. I. My runs there are usually 5 to 8 hens in there if I add any ( usually not) I try to add about 3 at a time.

I've been told its best to put them in at night while they are at roost. I usually move mine at feeding time, partly because the others are trying to get at the feed, and partly that's the best time for me. I feed in the afternoons.

Chickens are like children at school. The new kid arrives and all the kids that have been there forever together usually pick on/at the new one until order ( pecking order) is distinguished. I have never had a hen seriously injured really bad when moving them around, other than a bit of blood from the comb maybe.

 

[DesertChic]

A couple of pics of my babies. The are EE turkens. They all have pea combs and should produce green or blue eggs. Adorable!

So cute!!!! All I can say is...

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[DesertChic]

any suggestion how to introduce NN to the flock? I tried once, put her in the coop with the others, but in the morning my roos tried to mate and the hens pecked her. I found her hiding and her neck was bleeding. so I put her back with her little flock. I have other 2 NN I want to put with the big flock but I am afraid to try. they already can see each other through the fence.

If you haven't done so already, keep the newcomer close to the flock you want her to become part of for a few days in an area where they can visit one another through a barrier. My birds all socialized with one another on opposite sides of a mesh barrier separating pens or the pen from the outdoors before I allowed them to interact directly. And while I've heard that introducing them at night is better, I've experienced just the opposite here. Mine have all integrated better via careful introductions made in the daytime...but mine also free-range so there's plenty of "escape" space for the newbie.

Good luck!

 

[ochochicas]

Do you guys ship fertile eggs? I am hoping I will have a broody momma next spring and if so, I would love to have some NN again, are they bantam? It doesn't matter, as long as they are sweet and cute, and become great addition to our variety! Of course I would not want them to be a part of any sort of breeding project, but they would have the opportunity to hatch out babies of their own as well later on. Will the NN gene carry on as a dominant gene? It would be nice, as I said before, it was a 50/50 thing with the ones we had hatched, but then again that could be because they were mated to the Sizzle and Silkie roos.... Right now we have a Plymouth Barred Rock roo, Egyptian Roo and I think the other is a Red Cap mix roo of some sort, except he doesn't have the dark legs as is standard, everything else, feather color and comb and build is right!

I said I was going to ship eggs after my chicks hatched, but then my hens quit laying. I haven't had an egg from them in a week! As soon as they are laying again I will be offering eggs for sale.

My hens are all heterozygous for the Naked gene, which means they only have one N and will pass it to half the chicks. So, 50% of the chicks hatched will be NN and the other half will be fully feathered.

The NN gene is dominant. If a chicken has two N genes they will have no feathers on the neck. If they have one N gene they will be featherless but will have a bow tie or a bib on the front of the neck. No Naked gene and they will look like regular chickens.