Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kassaundra]

Hi folks!

I looked at my four-week-old NN this morning and though "uh oh". These were vent sexed as pullets, so I was feeling somewhat confident I had girls.

Are NN pullets prone to reddening early? These are the first of this breed for me.

(Having trouble with attaching my photos)

Yes naked necks show the red more in the face and cheeks then other pullets. They have the red (the other pullets) it is just covered by feathers, and exposure to light tends to hormonally redden all chicken skin, just more dramatically in the boys. (and other chickens have much less skin exposure to light)

 

[Kassaundra]

Trying to psych myself up for bird processing. It is illegal to do in my city, so I'm not going to be doing it myself.. not that I could, tbh.. but I found a processor nearby (which is apparently the best place locally, but also not for the feint of heart) and I've got 5 broodies on LF eggs. Since they're all from my scaleless project I'm going to be really reluctant to let extra roosters go to anyone willy-nilly. I want to make sure I'm being responsible with this gene since it poses ethical questions considering the extra husbandry, I don't want people getting birds off me to try and make a quick buck or have a novelty bird they let die exposed to the elements, you know? So any boys not kept for breeding are gonna get butchered, probably.

I've only been raising serama up until now. This is very new to me. Gonna be agonizing over it for months, I'm sure. That and I have to find a chest freezer.. hoo boy I hope I have the guts to actually do this cuz if I can't go through with it I'm going vegetarian. Well, no. I'm going no-more-chicken-itarian. Then no more breeding for me because I'd not be cut out for it.

That said!! It will be cool to hatch my own naked necks from all sorts of mixes, since my barred rock went and sat on eggs she'd been hiding from who knows who. So it won't just be my scaleless splits.

It gets easier, stick to your guns and follow through. Take them to the processor, come home have a good cry and some wine.

I wish the carriers were easier to tell, any of my birds could be carriers and I'm in the same boat, very reluctant to sell my chickens, chicks or eggs

 

[chickengr]

You may be referring to Pie,

he is the most beautiful bird I have ever seen

 

[Kassaundra]

he is the most beautiful bird I have ever seen

Wow, thank you, I'd tell him you said that, but he already has a big enough head!!!!

So far he hasn't even come close to making a "mini me"

 

[Icravepoultry]

This is the only naked I have left from this hatch, such a Drama Queen. [/quote] This might be a stupid question,but how do you get a chicken with no feathers like that? I'm new to naked necks

 

[Phill98]

Yes, still have him and Vader, Pie may have some fm, I don't remember when he was small, and a lot of times they show more as chicks and lose it as they get older.  They usually will keep some "freckles" on their body, but it is hard to see unless you pluck them.

Now it hit me! Is he the one that had that weird patch on his back as chick? I think he is, and that's where his name came from. I remember that chick having some fm.

 

[Icravepoultry]

Ooh! He is beautiful!@Kassaundra

 

[Kassaundra]

Now it hit me! Is he the one that had that weird patch on his back as chick? I think he is, and that's where his name came from. I remember that chick having some fm.

Yes, that is him, that is how he got his name, b/c we were considering whether he was "pied" or not.

 

[Kassaundra]

This is the only naked I have left from this hatch, such a Drama Queen.

This might be a stupid question,but how do you get a chicken with no feathers like that? I'm new to naked necks[/QUOTE]

The total nakedness is from a different gene the Sc gene, very rare and recessive, the naked ones have a double gene. My chickens are naked necks also, but ScSc can occur in ANY breed or mix of chickens.

 

[draye]

Got another 133 eggs ready to put into the incubator late this afternoon.

I have 4 Polish/ Naked Neck green eggs and another 12 Green Egger Naked Necks all from friends.
Then I have another 6 Green Egger NN eggs from my only green egg layer. Trying to build up the Green Egger NN's.

The rest are from my flock, 6 different roosters and from 26 hens.