Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[generaldsherman]

Hi and welcome!  I agree, need better pictures sorry...  the first and third do look like pullets, can't really see the second and fourth ones.    They look young but old enough for obvious pointy rooster feathers on any boys at their age.

I'll post pictures tomorrow when I am not taking them in twilight. Didn't notice any obvious sickle feathers on them though

 

[Phill98]

If the fm chickens have black skin, bones and organs, do they have black meat also?

One other thing was also bothering me. How do you know when it's cooked?

 

[flower]

If the fm chickens have black skin, bones and organs, do they have black meat also?

One other thing was also bothering me. How do you know when it's cooked?

My chicken has dark grey muscles. It has been posted that testosterone reduces the blackness so I think that females are darker throughout.

Cook meat looks cooked. You would know if it is cooked, I know that you would know.

 

[Kev]

they are 7 months old. Got them all for $20 because they kept knocking eggs out of their old owner's nesting boxes, but they can't knock them down 3 feet in my coop as the nesting boxes are on level with a platform in the henhouse, so I am hoping it works out. For now the punks are in a rabbit hutch until i know they are healthy

at that age roosters are completely obvious and none of them look roosterly even in those pictures so you got told correctly.

IMO a way way high number of nest boxes have far too low lips. suspect that is the real problem.

 

[Kev]

If the fm chickens have black skin, bones and organs, do they have black meat also?

One other thing was also bothering me. How do you know when it's cooked?

yes the meat is colored also. The interesting thing the different muscle groups can be tinted differently from other muscles around them but the identical muscle on both sides of body are always exactly the same. It makes for an interesting look if the chicken is cut in half/quartered and put side by side.

I am colorblind so I cook by smell a lot. It's not easy for me to visually tell if a beef steak is done or not. So cooking black chicken is no different from normal chicken for me lol

btw cooking makes the meat even darker. a good dark fresh carcass becomes incredibly solid dark black when cooked.

 

[Kev]

My chicken has dark grey muscles. It has been posted that testosterone reduces the blackness so I think that females are darker throughout.

It does, especially in fibro mixes or mixed color silkies.

Dark or medium skinned cockerels going red as they become sexually mature towards one year old is a big issue. Roosters that stay dark past one year are very valuable. Pullets on the other hand, a much higher percentage stay the same shade through their whole life but some do lighten up, especially on colors like wheaten.

I'm not sure of the causes of roosters staying dark despite full maturity.

 

[generaldsherman]

at that age roosters are completely obvious and none of them look roosterly even in those pictures so you got told correctly. good to know

IMO a way way high number of nest boxes have far too low lips.  suspect that is the real problem.

that and the face that he let them sleep in the nesting boxes. I figure I'll leave them in the isolation cage for a couple of days then put them in the main coop, but close off nesting boxes at night.

 

[Kev]

that and the face that he let them sleep in the nesting boxes. I figure I'll leave them in the isolation cage for a couple of days then put them in the main coop, but close off nesting boxes at night.

Good idea, forcing them to start off with better habits at their new home.

 

[Phill98]

My chicken has dark grey muscles.  It has been posted that testosterone reduces the blackness so I think that females are darker throughout.

Cook meat looks cooked. You would know if it is cooked, I know that you would know.

yes the meat is colored also. The interesting thing the different muscle groups can be tinted differently from other muscles around them but the identical muscle on both sides of body are always exactly the same.  It makes for an interesting look if the chicken is cut in half/quartered and put side by side.

I am colorblind so I cook by smell a lot.  It's not easy for me to visually tell if a beef steak is done or not. So cooking black chicken is no different from normal chicken for me lol

btw cooking makes the meat even darker. a good dark fresh carcass becomes incredibly solid dark black when cooked.

That is just crazy! I can only imagine faces when I would put it in front of my family saying it's chicken.

I thought that meat stays red, but darker. Seems like I was wrong. Now they are even more interesting

 

[nchvac]

Has anyone crossed a naked neck rooster with a Cornish or Asil hen? What was the result?