Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Phill98]

sorry for your loss. is it heat? if I remember well your hens are big too.

Yes, she was actually alive in the morning but she couldn't get through the afternoon heat. And she was second biggest in the group.

 

[DesertChic]

I know the feeling. 5 roos and 2 cockerels, no room. I put a wire to separate flocks so that I can keep them. neighbors don't complain so far but they are too noisy.

We sort of live out in the middle of nowhere with very few neighbors and really like it that way. Unfortunately, a developer now wants to build a new housing development on the land next to us. I'm kind of hoping that the crowing of over a dozen roosters keeps them from building too close to our property.

 

[draye]

How's everyone doing. This thread has been quite for a few days.
Still feeding and taking care of mine. its extremely hot here. It's been being in the nineties, but you have to factor in the humidity so the temps have been feeling up into the hundreds. I think one day they said it was high enough that it felt like a hundred and thirteen.

Havent lost anymore chickens due to the heat, so that's good.

 

[DesertChic]

How's everyone doing. This thread has been quite for a few days.
Still feeding and taking care of mine. its extremely hot here. It's been being in the nineties, but you have to factor in the humidity so the temps have been feeling up into the hundreds. I think one day they said it was high enough that it felt like a hundred and thirteen.

Havent lost anymore chickens due to the heat, so that's good.

Similar weather here, but we actually are in the 100s with humidity ranging from over 40-80% in the morning down to 30%+ in the afternoons when it doesn't rain. The mosquitoes are AWFUL. My new fragrance? Deep Woods Off. But no more chicken losses so far. The NNs are still fairing better than my other breeds.

 

[Beer can]

Think this one will be my breeder. Maturing the fastest, biggest, and really like the color. Looks like I have two black pullets with just a couple pin feathers on their necks, think I'll keep them also, and a couple sort of his color but more buff with small bowties.
Can the bowties be bred out of them?

 

[draye]

Think this one will be my breeder. Maturing the fastest, biggest, and really like the color. Looks like I have two black pullets with just a couple pin feathers on their necks, think I'll keep them also, and a couple sort of his color but more buff with small bowties.
Can the bowties be bred out of them?

What is the color? Brown Red? That's what they look like with what I see in the photograph.

 

[Beer can]

What is the color? Brown Red? That's what they look like with what I see in the photograph.

Black and red. I was hoping to get some like the rooster Cackle has on their website. He looks pretty close. I'll be breeding him with the black, reds, and buffs, some are two tone like him. Not keeping the whites. Don't know what I'll end up with for overall colors, but I bet they will all taste the same :-D

 

[Turk Raphael]

Black and red. I was hoping to get some like the rooster Cackle has on their website. He looks pretty close. I'll be breeding him with the black, reds, and buffs, some are two tone like him. Not keeping the whites. Don't know what I'll end up with for overall colors, but I bet they will all taste the same :-D

Would love to have the whites. They are hard to get around here.

 

[draye]

Black and red. I was hoping to get some like the rooster Cackle has on their website. He looks pretty close. I'll be breeding him with the black, reds, and buffs, some are two tone like him. Not keeping the whites. Don't know what I'll end up with for overall colors, but I bet they will all taste the same :-D

That is a Partridge that they have on the website and in the catalog. I fight get w rooster like him but did get partridge hens. I've got one line that now except he has mottling, bred him my self.

Here he is, he was quite a bit younger, really need to get an updated photo.

This is his daddy. Got him from someone that used my birds from my flock. I got him because he had fair mottling with the red color.

This is his mama, she came from Cackle. Trying to get more like her.

I've got the young one on top photo covering her and five of her daughters for a hatch in September.

Here is a full brother to the rooster in the first photo.

I would like to see a little more size on this line, just don't know how to get it without losing the mottling.

 

[Beer can]

Would love to have the whites. They are hard to get around here.

The whites I have are pure white, small bowties. I already have white chickens with my giants, never been a fan of white chickens, only reason I have white giants is I hear white feathers make for a cleaner carcass, IDK, never saw or tasted the difference. And I like the white giants cause it seems no one else has them, I like to be different. I don't know anybody that has naked necks around here, hopefully they are as cold hardy as I've heard (we can get subzero, -20 below windchill, coops wind free though, still well vented, no problems with straight combs) , asked about it on your dad's thread 'how can they be cold hardy?', DesertChic responded "Because they are awesome!".......Lol! I'll find out....Three yrs ago, super bad winter, next was super bad also, three months of subzero, leghorns and polish lived, hopefully these NN do, last winter was mild, El Nino gives us mild winters here. Hot here in summers, 95 for awhile, and super humid, thank God we got some rain....

That is a Partridge that they have on the website and in the catalog. I fight get w rooster like him but did get partridge hens. I've got one line that now except he has mottling, bred him my self.

I grew up with RIRs, all my dad ever had, so probably influences me on color. I just really like the color of that rooster. black and red/partridge I love that. That's the color I'm shooting for on these NNs.