Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Phill98]

Thanks!

I was asked on another thread whether it was typical for NNs to lay so early. I didn't know, as this is my first group of NNs. What has been you guys' experience?

- Ant Farm 

My chickens always start laying at about five months no matter naked or non naked necks. This is not the same case as yours, because you have pure naked necks and my flock is so mixed that it doesn't even have any breed sign and lot of birds havr one naked neck parent and another non naked neck. So, what I actually have is flock of the same breed, only some have naked necks and others don't.

 

[chickengr]

3 of my NNs started to lay at about 5 mo and 1 started at about 6 mo.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

My chickens always start laying at about five months no matter naked or non naked necks. This is not the same case as yours, because you have pure naked necks and my flock is so mixed that it doesn't even have any breed sign and lot of birds havr one naked neck parent and another non naked neck. So, what I actually have is flock of the same breed, only some have naked necks and others don't.

Thanks! I don't know if I would call my Naked Necks "pure" as I think some came crossed (witness Snape). But you are right in that I haven't crossed them out with other breeds (yet). I have 6 Naked Necks and 1 New Hampshire in this little flock - the NN girls are ready, the NH girl is not...

- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

Thanks!

I was asked on another thread whether it was typical for NNs to lay so early. I didn't know, as this is my first group of NNs. What has been you guys' experience?

- Ant Farm

In my first NN hatch, the first of my pullets began laying at 19 weeks and the remainder started laying at 20 and 21 weeks. That latest one to lay was a NN/Cochin mix, with the pure pullets laying earlier.

 

[DesertChic]

This is one of the NN cockerels I'm planning to keep....Pepper. He's a Buff NN over Australorp mix, and his mother is my best laying hen so I'm planning to keep him as the head of my egg laying group. I LOVE how his coloring and pattern are developing, including his old-man "gray" hair look, LOL. He's also got a fantastic personality...much more mature in demeanor than most of his brothers...friendly but assertive and with a decent crow. (Pitch of their crow matters to me. Some of their crows are just intolerable to listen to.)

 

[chickengr]

@Kev

today my bcm pullet escaped to another run where I have a rumpless araucana cockerel. I don't know if they mated. in case they did would I be able to distinguish pure bcm chicks?

this is a cockerel:

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Taking a quick late lunch break, about to head back out for more coop work (how does it always take so much longer than expected?!).

Got weights on the other boys. (Recall that Snape is 7.7lbs.) Apoc is 6.711lbs, and Tank is 6.309lbs. Haven't graphed it yet, but recall that Tank was bigger and heavier than all of them early on... (For what it's worth, at time of his injury, the vet weighed Dumbledore, the 33 week old Cream Legbar cockerel - 5 lbs. He's lost a bit during his recovery of course - he got scrambled eggs for breakfast today!)

Back to work...

- Ant Farm

 

[draye]

Thanks! I don't know if I would call my Naked Necks "pure" as I think some came crossed (witness Snape). But you are right in that I haven't crossed them out with other breeds (yet). I have 6 Naked Necks and 1 New Hampshire in this little flock - the NN girls are ready, the NH girl is not...

- Ant Farm 

I don't hesitate to say mine are Naked Necks. If they have a Naked Neck then that ius what they are. I do however let folks know that they have been outcrosses or crossbred as in the cases of the ones crossed to the Easter Eggers.

 

[draye]

This is one of the NN cockerels I'm planning to keep....Pepper. He's a Buff NN over Australorp mix, and his mother is my best laying hen so I'm planning to keep him as the head of my egg laying group. I LOVE how his coloring and pattern are developing, including his old-man "gray" hair look, LOL. He's also got a fantastic personality...much more mature in demeanor than most of his brothers...friendly but assertive and with a decent crow. (Pitch of their crow matters to me. Some of their crows are just intolerable to listen to.)

I've seen quite a few Australorp crosses, not just to NN, but to a lot if breeds, that is about the typical color Australorp crosses are. I'm no expert but I'd take a good guess that Black Australorps are based on Birchen.

 

[chickengr]

is my jumbo really a boy?


and is this one a girl?


more pics:



what would you call their colours?

they are 7 weeks old.