Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[GabrielBane]

Awesome, that's what I thought, thank you for clarifying! I'm sure I'll be back with more questions!

 

[draye]

Pictures:

This is the hatch from the run with my Cinnamon rooster over 1 black, 1 blue, 1 silver, 1 what I call a blue gold ( a little EE in her background), and 1 white, all hens are Naked Necked. Total 8 out of 12 fertile eggs. Got all black and possibly a couple dark blues and one lonely reddish looking. See picture below.

Not really sure, but I'm thinking that this obe the only one colored this way is out of the silver hen. Possible @Kev.

Check out the Mottled-Aloha-Calico thread for more babies.

 

[DesertChic]

Pictures:



This is the hatch from the run with my Cinnamon rooster over 1 black, 1 blue, 1 silver, 1 what I call a blue gold ( a little EE in her background), and 1 white, all hens are Naked Necked. Total 8 out of 12 fertile eggs. Got all black and possibly a couple dark blues and one lonely reddish looking. See picture below.



Not really sure, but I'm thinking that this obe the only one colored this way is out of the silver hen. Possible @Kev .

Check out the Mottled-Aloha-Calico thread for more babies.

See, now I want to hatch some eggs again. You're a terrible enabler.

 

[draye]

See, now I want to hatch some eggs again. You're a terrible enabler. 

I love helping out anyway I can.

 

[maralpz2006]

this my barred naked neck boy at 4 months

 

[Kev]

Holy moley my brain hurts from back reading so much!

So many lovely, lovely crosses and genetics, and if someone could entertain this NN newbie, I would appreciate it forever, here's where I'm currently at:
Myself and my partner inherited a family property with half-barns/open meadows, and well, being the savvy millenials that we are, decided we definitely needed to take advantage of this blessing and start our own farm/agricultural business (something that cost me about 60k of schooling to learn how to do... ) , well, being the fanatic lover of chickens that I've always been, I immediately start drafting business models and such.

Of course, the "typical" dual purpose production breeds all came to mind, but many seemed to have issues with temperment, growth rate, etc. He and I finally fell in love with Swedish Flower hens, but to our dismay, the more research we did, we found that perhaps for a new business, they make be too slow of growers (tho I do plan on getting some girls.... those markings/crests are too precious to pass up! ) , alas, we began our search, and we started considering NNs, they're a breed I've owned as a part of "barnyard random selection" of chicks years ago, but now that we are starting fresh, we want to make sure WHEN/IF we get our initial birds, that they come from good, meat production lines~ From a possibly business perspective, would this breed be something that could definitely fit our production needs? (Which at the moment, is minimal, we are not setting quotas for our babies~) Would you say they are self-sustainable in terms of number of eggs that are viable and take?

My biggest question I suppose would be, if I ordered these chicks with the NN gene, as I bred them with our NN, would the feathered neck gene return over generations? My partner loves the appeal of a "cleaner" processing/dressing process.


And of course, in your experiences, how are hatchery NNs typically?? I would love to buy started juvenile breeding stock, but it seems very hard to find the quality birds I'd want from my NNs in Florida. Everyone seems to raise bantams here.

Hi and welcome! Sure sounds like a lovely setting.

Hatchery NN are excellent for being easy and productive for the backyarder. As for business or your particular goals.. that is bit trickier. Hatchery stock can be a bit variable.. think it is Cackle(draye? Turk?) is a popular recommendation.

There is a hatchery that has what are essentially slow grow NN broilers- S&G Poultry, easy to find online however recent rumor is they are not selling the NNs next season, with the reasons unknown to me. So if this is something that sounds appealing for you, best to contact them asap just in case.

another idea, there is nothing wrong with mixing colors or adding crests to NN.. might be a happy compromise?

 

[chickengr]

Pictures:



This is the hatch from the run with my Cinnamon rooster over 1 black, 1 blue, 1 silver, 1 what I call a blue gold ( a little EE in her background), and 1 white, all hens are Naked Necked. Total 8 out of 12 fertile eggs. Got all black and possibly a couple dark blues and one lonely reddish looking. See picture below.



Not really sure, but I'm thinking that this obe the only one colored this way is out of the silver hen. Possible @Kev .

Check out the Mottled-Aloha-Calico thread for more babies.

cute little chicks!

do you have other light coloured chicks? if there is only 1 different colour than the others they might peck it and eventually kill it.

 

[chickengr]

this my barred naked neck boy at 4 months

he is handsome!

I am not familiar with barring but he looks more cuckoo to me. anyone can tell me if I am right?

 

[GabrielBane]

Hi and welcome! Sure sounds like a lovely setting.

Hatchery NN are excellent for being easy and productive for the backyarder. As for business or your particular goals.. that is bit trickier. Hatchery stock can be a bit variable.. think it is Cackle(draye? Turk?) is a popular recommendation.

There is a hatchery that has what are essentially slow grow NN broilers- S&G Poultry, easy to find online however recent rumor is they are not selling the NNs next season, with the reasons unknown to me. So if this is something that sounds appealing for you, best to contact them asap just in case.

another idea, there is nothing wrong with mixing colors or adding crests to NN.. might be a happy compromise?

Thank you so much for the input, I really appreciate the steps in the right direction!


Sidenote:
As a wedding gift, my partner offered to buy me a half dozen FLF Ayam Cemani to start my own flock of those, I was wondering if a Cemani x NN crosses / solid black NN projects were being worked on? I've seen a few black skinned NN, but haven't dug back far enough to know if those lovely ladies were a part of a bigger breeding project or not~ Regardless, I think it'd be a fun project (Along with my NN x SFH crosses, which Kev has convinced me is an absolute necessity. )

 

[WPFarmstead]

Thank you so much for the input, I really appreciate the steps in the right direction!


Sidenote:
As a wedding gift, my partner offered to buy me a half dozen FLF Ayam Cemani to start my own flock of those, I was wondering if a Cemani x NN crosses / solid black NN projects were being worked on? I've seen a few black skinned NN, but haven't dug back far enough to know if those lovely ladies were a part of a bigger breeding project or not~ Regardless, I think it'd be a fun project (Along with my NN x SFH crosses, which Kev has convinced me is an absolute necessity. ) 

One gal local to me is doing them as a side project. She just hatched one out about a week ago and plans to breed several more to start a small line locally.