Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

She may be a I can't recall the word for it but is actually both sexes. I had one like that once. Whole she was growing up "she" had the looks of and acted like a pullet. But when she was grown as in lay kf age she developed tge saddle feathers ons tail " partial" feathers of a chick bird. She never crowed " at least I never heard nor saw her" nor ever laid an egg. I know she was plenty old enough to lay eggs because her hatch mates had started laying. Then one day when she was at about a year old walked out and found her dead.

thank you for this information. I was thinking it might be a late bloomer cockerel but will be watching. if by march I see no eggs/mating I will cull.

 

[LeafBlade12345]

thank you for this information. I was thinking it might be a late bloomer cockerel but will be watching. if by march I see no eggs/mating I will cull.

And the possible cockerel never mated?

 

[LeafBlade12345]

She may be a I can't recall the word for it but is actually both sexes. I had one like that once. Whole she was growing up "she" had the looks of and acted like a pullet. But when she was grown as in lay kf age she developed tge saddle feathers ons tail " partial" feathers of a chick bird. She never crowed " at least I never heard nor saw her" nor ever laid an egg. I know she was plenty old enough to lay eggs because her hatch mates had started laying. Then one day when she was at about a year old walked out and found her dead.

No mating occurred? How strange...

 

[draye]

No mating occurred? How strange...

Roosters tried, she always fought them off. Unless matings occurred when I wasn't around.

 

[Kev]

Hey there NN people. Anybody know if anyone is working on Rose combed Naked Necks? The image came to mind earlier today and I thought "whoa, that would be neat." Just curious if anyone has attempted this as of yet.

Not deliberately working on it but it's present in my NN and scaleless birds. As hellbender said, I've come to appreciate the clean headed look, especially if the comb is small and/or follows the head contour.

 

[hellbender]

Hermaphrodite. I've seen it a couple times in dairy goats (not mine). it is fairly common in polled goats. I wouldn't own a polled goat for that very reason. They are prone to other problems as well.

 

[draye]

Hermaphrodite. I've seen it a couple times in dairy goats (not mine).  it is fairly common in polled goats.  I wouldn't own a polled goat for that very reason.  They are prone to other problems as well.  

That's the word.

 

[Kassaundra]

BEAUTIFUL BIRDS!

I have a question about trying to crow pullet. I have a buff orpington bought as a pullet who had red wattles. I posted a pic on byc and everyone said a cockerel. at 3-4 months old this chicken tried to crow 2-3 times and never again. now is 5 months old, does have pointy saddle feathers but comb and wattles are hen size and definitively no crowing. here are the pics taken a month ago. in this one saddle feathers are more visible:


the wattles are a bit bigger now but the comb is the same size:


any idea what this chicken is?

btw my sick NN girls are doing well. one of them have 1 foot a bit swollen but this might be due to scratch wound. she lays eggs every day. my big fat one is more serious, I think she has more than one problem. but she is a fighter. her appetite increased a bit which I think is a good sign.

Orpingtons are very hard for me to id genderwise. They mature later then others, and their secondary sex markers are more subtle for a longer time. I honestly don't have a guess on this one, but I don't see saddle/hackle feathers????

 

[chickengr]

Orpingtons are very hard for me to id genderwise. They mature later then others, and their secondary sex markers are more subtle for a longer time. I honestly don't have a guess on this one, but I don't see saddle/hackle feathers????

there are some pointy feathers under the wings. I will wait and see.

 

[draye]

A new layer. First pullet egg from May 28th hatch.

30 weeks and 5 days. That seems like a little extra time than most, but I guess the shorter days extended their time to lay. Only 6. More pullets from this batch to start laying now.