Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

@Kev

@ about 1week old.

Not really sure guessing @ about 8 to 10 weeks.

Around 16 or 17 weeks. I really need to get an update picture. Dad was a Blue Red Naked Neck. Mom was a Wheaten Duckwing Naked Neck ( also known as Silver Wheaten). So @Kev would she be considered a Partridge ( maybe Red Partridge) also. Her under color is a blueish color with a deep red over that. There are faint patterns in her also.

She definitely is partridge, that chick pic is a classic variation of partridge chick down. She is a little light for a partridge so she has something else affecting the color/pattern but I don't know what it is. This is a straight partridge hen, no other genes affecting her color or pattern. Naturally pretty dark.

I think I've figured this Hen out. Having lost the other hen ( posted above). I figured out who laid the dark brown egg. None of the hens I've ever had laid one so dark. So the Red Partridge hen I've quoted lays this egg:

not sure if you'll be able to tell how dark it really is. Well getting back to figuring her out. From this hatch I had put a Red pea combed rooster ( was 1/4 EE) in with some Welsummet hens. I had only gathered 3 or 4 eggs from the run to set. When the eggs hatched I had counted ( or thought I had) the eggs and thought none had hatched. But jm guessing now I missed and counted a wrong egg ( I marked with the run number on it) must have read a wrong number. This explains the marbling partridge color on that chick along with a redder color than the Welsummer.

 

[Skink]

Well, my current hatch seems done and I have my first hatch's worth of split scaleless eggs saved up, but wouldn't you know it! Seems my incubator is broken. Nearly everything died on hatch day very mysteriously. I am trying to give them another day in case I'm wrong about how the eggs look (I've not been yet to date, but the one time I don't wait will be the one time I throw a living chick in the trash) but I am willing to bet once I get in there and tinker I'll find my fan is dead and the poor things were suffocated. Fingers crossed I can hatch some NN eggs soon.. we sadly lost some hens very suddenly, I miss them and would love some new cute hens from my own chickens to fill the void they left behind.

 

[ForrestGump]

Well, my current hatch seems done and I have my first hatch's worth of split scaleless eggs saved up, but wouldn't you know it! Seems my incubator is broken. Nearly everything died on hatch day very mysteriously. I am trying to give them another day in case I'm wrong about how the eggs look (I've not been yet to date, but the one time I don't wait will be the one time I throw a living chick in the trash) but I am willing to bet once I get in there and tinker I'll find my fan is dead and the poor things were suffocated. Fingers crossed I can hatch some NN eggs soon.. we sadly lost some hens very suddenly, I miss them and would love some new cute hens from my own chickens to fill the void they left behind.

What kind of incubator do you have? Can you candle some of the eggs and see if they are moving? I hope they are just a bit slow to hatch. I had one hatch that was a day behind because I think my incubator was running a degree cooler than it should have been (plus our power was out for a day). Good luck!

 

[Skink]

What kind of incubator do you have? Can you candle some of the eggs and see if they are moving? I hope they are just a bit slow to hatch. I had one hatch that was a day behind because I think my incubator was running a degree cooler than it should have been (plus our power was out for a day). Good luck!

I have a brinsea mini advance. It is giving me an error message not listed in the manual, so I'm having to troubleshoot with customer service, sadly. I think I'm going to have to send my incubator in I bet, so if one of my big gals doesn't go broody my hatching is gonna have to wait. I guess that isn't the worst thing that could happen right now. I'm about to be raising a house duck starting this week, and that is VERY LABOR INTENSIVE because house birds need constant attention.. maybe I shouldn't be running on all cylinders in every other category too! I'm already running three brooders as it is.

I candled and they sadly look very dead.. no movement, all the blood vessels are pulled away, and it is just deathly still and shadowy. I'm still letting them sit in case I'm wrong but I have no hope at this point. There've been no changes. I still got at least two babies, though! So that is nice. Fingers crossed they aren't both roosters, since they will be my only birds of that type.

 

[draye]

We went to Popeyes Chicken today for lunch. It really looked like they put their chickens on a diet.

The thighs barely had any meat on them. And the legs weren't any bigger than a batman leg.

I've seem more meat in a Leghorn than whatever kind of chickens that they serve.

I was really disappointed I usually like Popeyes.

I'm sure they weren't Naked Necks, even smallest hen has more mega that that.

 

[lolaschickens]

Is there anybody on here in Michigan that might want a good lookin Turken rooster? He's 8 months old and is a good boy, he hasn't been aggressive at all towards people so far. The only problem is my older hens don't like him and won't submit when he tries to mate with them so they end up getting feathers ripped out. I really want to find a good home for him where he'll be well cared for and loved. Where he'll hopefully not end up a chicken dinner unless he gets mean haha. Or if anybody has any ideas on how to find him a good home please let me know! Thank you
Laura

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Is there anybody on here in Michigan that might want a good lookin Turken rooster? He's 8 months old and is a good boy, he hasn't been aggressive at all towards people so far. The only problem is my older hens don't like him and won't submit when he tries to mate with them so they end up getting feathers ripped out. I really want to find a good home for him where he'll be well cared for and loved. Where he'll hopefully not end up a chicken dinner unless he gets mean haha. Or if anybody has any ideas on how to find him a good home please let me know! Thank you

Laura

Oh, he's a handsome one! I wish I was closer...

- Ant Farm

 

[Moeru]

I haven't been on this website forever, but while researching scaleless chickens, and trying to find a source for them, I came across this thread and saw a few people had them.
I had to come back and ask... Do any of you have eggs for sale?

 

[lolaschickens]

Oh, he's a handsome one! I wish I was closer...

- Ant Farm

Thanks Ant Farm! I wish you were closer too for his sake, it seems like nobody around here wants a Turken roo

if only I had more property and space I could keep him!

 

[ForrestGump]

I haven't been on this website forever, but while researching scaleless chickens, and trying to find a source for them, I came across this thread and had to come back and ask... Do any of you have eggs for sale?

I have turken eggs for sale. The babies will grow up to be producers of blue, green or olive eggs. Prices start at $15 per dozen plus shipping, so a dozen usually ends up being about $30 total. You can PM me if you'd like more info.

These are some of the eggs I shipped out last week.