Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[twitchybug52]

[COLOR=0000CD]my chickens don't look happy with frozen things. I give them plenty of greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, etc. and in summer I give them whole oats as a treat. they love it.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=0000CD]beautiful birds! do you keep silkies with large fowl? I would like to get 1 or 2 but I am afraid that my big birds would kill them.[/COLOR]

Our Silkie was purchased with the NN and had been raised with them since chicks. No problems so far. She's even in the pen with our RIR, Silver Laced Wyandotte, and a few Easter Eggers. They don't bother her. Not sure if they were just integrated well. Anybody else have any thoughts?

 

[Beer can]

Depends on their size. I have TSC hatchery silkies in my mix flock. They ain't tiny ones like show birds. I actually just hatched out some white jersey giant over white silkie chicks.
The one in the middle is giant/silkie cross, to the right pure white jersey giant. Five weeks now.

 

[BabyandCotton]

This my first NN, Louise. What color variety is she? I have fallen in love with turkens. They are almost their own species of poultry!

 

[draye]

This my first NN, Louise. What color variety is she? I have fallen in love with turkens. They are almost their own species of poultry!

Red.

Nice looking bird. You'll find the folks on here live their Naked Neckd also.

 

[Phill98]

I do know what you mean. I also agree that boy also being barred is very likely due to the other barred bird. The feathers on head seem to show strongest evidence of barring in that picture, the black patch on chest is harder to read, not sure if it is white feathers overlapping the black or they are showing white mottled tips or.... Delaware is barring over a silver columbian.. at a glance he does look either silver columbian or delaware.. however columbian normally gives basically a symmetrical pattern- white body, black mostly confined to particular areas, due to the effects of the Columbian gene. This chick has a large patch of black in an non-typical area for a columbian.. and he does not have the corresponding patch on the other side. That's what made me bring up "Paint" plus the one chick being white also made me think it was probably the dominant version of white involved. Random black feathers and patches and not being symmetrical at all is typical of dominant white crosses/mixes. barring and mottle is also often present in white chicken stock. Here are my own crosses with dominant white birds- The father was not pure for dominant white, as half of the chicks came out non-white. All of the non-white chicks are barred, so he was pure for barring. Interestingly, as far as I can see my "paints" are not really showing any hint of barring.. yet? p.s. both of them are also fibro... proving how strong the Id and barring genes can be at repressing the skin color. It's barely visible as a slight tint to their legs.

Thing that made me think of that barred/columbian color is the tail. I have never seen paint bird with barred tail. I actually like paint color, I think it's very modern looking. Those chicks are beautiful! I can't believe that they carry fibro. Wow! More things I learn about chicken genetics, more impressed I become. So what breed were parents of these chicks?

 

[draye]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/683684/baby-chick-pictures-post/9510#post_17159357
To see a picture off the Sizzle chick go here.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-post-before-adding-content/570#post_17135522

See this link to see the fully feathered chicks, that came from both NN parents.

 

[Kev]

Thing that made me think of that barred/columbian color is the tail. I have never seen paint bird with barred tail.

It's probably because a lot of paints don't have barring, but I do have to mention that barring can reduce the amount of black on a white. Not impossible though. I've seen "blue paints"- the spots being blue instead of black and sort of have one- there was a chick with a single blue barred feather in the mix.

I will say it is very unusual to have so much black on the tail if it really is a paint. Maybe it's not paint after all, but that black patch on chest screams paint to me.. hm. Hope there are more pictures of that chick.

I actually like paint color, I think it's very modern looking.

Those chicks are beautiful! I can't believe that they carry fibro. Wow! More things I learn about chicken genetics, more impressed I become.

So what breed were parents of these chicks?

I'm rather liking the paint too.. if there is room to do so, might try to breed for larger patches on my birds. Or at least give a slight preference for birds showing the patches over solids.. this was originally a project for larger/heavier birds.

Bought cornish x chicks at feed store last fall.. they did not seem to grow so huge or fast, maybe they were one of those slow growing broiler strains but they were on feed restriction while growing up. Most of the chicks were from a "cx" cockerel over my NN hens.

 

[draye]

These two are by the Red Mottled rooster out if the Barred hens. Both are pullets.

These three are out if a red NN hen. There were three in the run. I don't believe these will develop the spots/mottling.

Another picture of some of the chicks out of the red NN hens. These look like they're going to be Calico colored.

 

[twitchybug52]

If I'm following the post right, I can get more pictures of my birds. I have three more that weren't in the picture. I'm not 100% sure if you guys were talking about the coloring of mine or not.

 

[draye]

If I'm following the post right, I can get more pictures of my birds. I have three more that weren't in the picture. I'm not 100% sure if you guys were talking about the coloring of mine or not.

They were. They were trying to decide if that white one with the big splotches was a "paint" or not.

Can you post a picture of it up closer?