Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

Crossing is of course the way to go but it is not a one-cross process.

I guess I still know nothing about chickens.

 

[draye]

Remember me posting a lot on my September 17, 2015 hatch, the ones with a gazillion pictures.

Well Thursday February 4, they were 21 weeks old. Well look what I found in their run today:

Never have I had any pullets lay this early. But I guess there's always a first.

I got some shots of the Naked Necks from my January 15, 2016 hatch.

. Black with red leakage, mother would be the Blue Red hen I have in the run. Pullet, I think maybe.

. Blue same mother. Pullet?

. These two picture are of two more blues, same mother as the other previous two. Cockerels.

These 4 plus the following pictures all have the same daddy, my Cinnamon/Columbian rooster.

. These two I believe are from the crossbred hens that look like EE, lay brown eggs, and are half each EE and NN. The chicks have pea combs. First one is a cockerel, second I believe is a pullet. Again same daddy.

. The two top pictures I believe are pullets and the bottom I believe is a cockerel. These three I believe are from the Red NN hen from the Aloha eggs from @alohachickens. They all have single combs.

 

[lozerface79]

Remember me posting a lot on my September 17, 2015 hatch, the ones with a gazillion pictures.

Well Thursday February 4, they were 21 weeks old. Well look what I found in their run today:

Never have I had any pullets lay this early. But I guess there's always a first.

I got some shots of the Naked Necks from my January 15, 2016 hatch.

. Black with red leakage, mother would be the Blue Red hen I have in the run. Pullet, I think maybe.

. Blue same mother. Pullet?

. These two picture are of two more blues, same mother as the other previous two. Cockerels.

These 4 plus the following pictures all have the same daddy, my Cinnamon/Columbian rooster.

. These two I believe are from the crossbred hens that look like EE, lay brown eggs, and are half each EE and NN. The chicks have pea combs. First one is a cockerel, second I believe is a pullet. Again same daddy.

. The two top pictures I believe are pullets and the bottom I believe is a cockerel. These three I believe are from the Red NN hen from the Aloha eggs from @alohachickens. They all have single combs.

Thats exciting!! Your birds are beautiful btw, though you might want to try and breed those neck feathers out.

 

[draye]

Thats exciting!! Your birds are beautiful btw, though you might want to try and breed those neck feathers out.

That's what I'm shooting for. Daddy is bare necked. Moms carry only one NN gene so I'm still getting several big bow ties.

All part of project breeding. Gotta add outside blood trying to get size and egg laying production.

 

[lozerface79]

That's what I'm shooting for. Daddy is bare necked. Moms carry only one NN gene so I'm still getting several big bow ties.

Well rome wasnt built in a day! Keep trying and i think after a few (chicken) generations you will get it!
You might want to do some inbreeding that way you dont have to worry about any new genes entering and making it harder to get NN

 

[draye]

Now for the newest, February 2, hatch. Will be one week old on the 9th.

. These three are the "black ones" , I actually had four if these to hatch, but totally my fault, I lost one the first night in the brooder. Did put the heat lamp close enough and one got too cold and died. So these three are my sex linked babies. The Spangled Aloha rooster out if my barred hens. Looks like two pullets and 1 cockerel left.

. These three are from the Spangled Aloha rooster from the three red hens in with him.

. Now these three are again from the Cinnamon NN rooster out of the the Red NN hen from Aloha stock.

. These two are from the Cinnamon NN rooster out if the EE/NN crossbred hens. Pea combs.

 

[lozerface79]

Now for the newest, February 2, hatch. Will be one week old on the 9th.

. These three are the "black ones" , I actually had four if these to hatch, but totally my fault, I lost one the first night in the brooder. Did put the heat lamp close enough and one got too cold and died. So these three are my sex linked babies. The Spangled Aloha rooster out if my barred hens. Looks like two pullets and 1 cockerel left.

. These three are from the Spangled Aloha rooster from the three red hens in with him.

. Now these three are again from the Cinnamon NN rooster out of the the Red NN hen from Aloha stock.

. These two are from the Cinnamon NN rooster out if the EE/NN crossbred hens. Pea combs.

Now these are the sweetest thing!!!
Do you raise these or do you sell then once they are old enough?

 

[draye]

Now these are the sweetest thing!!!
Do you raise these or do you sell then once they are old enough?

Right now I'm trying to raise everything that comes NN and sell off any that doesn't inherit the NN gene. That is until I get the numbers that I want. Around 75 hens.

 

[DesertChic]

@draye Love your babies! And congratulations on your early egg. I also want to give you a huge thanks for an older post when you suggested giving a broody hen baby asprin to break broodiness. It worked like a charm!

Today was my first day using a cone to butcher a couple birds without my husband's assistance securing the birds. It was an adventure. Those buggers sure are good at twisting out of that cone, but it was still a success and I got both of them processed quickly and without too much fuss. Here are the first two culls from my last hatch.


Ruby - the very thin, questionable cockerel pictured here @ 18 weeks - Live weight of 4.40 lbs


Jagger @ 20 weeks - live weight of 4.85 lbs.

I was not surprised to discover that Ruby had only one testicle and it was rather dark in color. He never seemed very masculine to me. Other than that he was quite healthy.
This is how they processed out at roughly 65% of live weight.


Ruby on the left finished at only 2.87 lbs and Jagger on the right finished at 3.18 lbs. Ruby had almost no fat on him, but Jagger made up for it.

 

[Kev]

@draye Love your babies! And congratulations on your early egg. I also want to give you a huge thanks for an older post when you suggested giving a broody hen baby asprin to break broodiness. It worked like a charm!

How interesting! I had never heard of this in all my years... always good to learn a new thing every day.

I'm curious- giving her aspirin was the only thing you did? No other alternations- moving to different location, messing/blocking up the nest etc?


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Congrats! I think Fire Ant tied up their legs to deal with that issue? I saw in a video somewhere short bungee cords were used over the top the cone to keep the bird in... that seemed clever.

Should try to get the weights on the hatchery turkens for comparsion with those weights, the cockerel is very actively breeding the pullets(a bit TOO active.. far more than I am used to seeing... complete with screaming, fighting pullets...) and at least one pullet has been laying pretty decent sized eggs for their body size. I'm guessing those have gone down the egg layer selection for a bit... just noticed my smallest turken roo looks pretty big compared to the hatchery cockerel.