Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[cactusrota]

Welcome, and thank you for saving her like that! Naked necks are great birds!!! Sounds like you have a wonderful lady there.

And hardcore!! You should call her Superhen!!!

 

[cactusrota]

Made a new chick feeder today!! The Naked Necks were the first to use it.

Love this!!! Even better than other pvc feeders I've seen! Thankyou for posting!

 

[chameleon]

And hardcore!! You should call her Superhen!!!

Thanks, I've been trying to come up with an apropriate name for her.

 

[chameleon]

So from what I understand, a Naked Neck that has feathers on the front of her neck is a cross,because the feathering shows she should only have one gene for the naked neck instead of two. If bred to a normal rooster only about 25% of the chicks would have a naked neck, and the rest would be fully feathered. My naked neck hen is a rescue, so I have no idea what her background is, but she has feathers on the front of her neck and she has 5 toes and lays white eggs, so I have no doubt she must be a cross. However, the only rooster she has ever been with was a game bantam, fully feathered, and every single hatch I've seen so far has been 50/50 for naked necks. How is that even possible?

I don't know much about genetics, that's just what I understood from some research I did.

 

[chickengr]

Some of my Blue copper Marans naked necks (plus a couple of photo bombers). These girls are the friendliest birds - and they were raised by a broody!




Their eggs:

I am soooo jealous! beautiful birds

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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x2!!! I want to turn my blue copper marans in to naked necks! (@Kev , or @bramblefir , or whoever knows, I have a Splash copper marans rooster and 2 blue copper hens and one black copper hen. What sort of naked neck would be best to cross with them to keep close to the blue/black/splash appearance?)

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I was visiting my oldest group (Tank's kids) today. They are so sweet, especially the largest cockerel, whom I have decided to name Kirk (he loves loves loves me and jumps in my lap). The more standoffish second largest cockerel (who caught up with Kirk this week in weighing) will go by Spock if he is kept. And of course, there's... KHAN!!!!!!!!

Kirk (white legs):


Spock (yellow legs, and he has some black markings on his feathers near the neck that the others don't have):


KHAN!!!!!




I weighed and banded all the Aloha NNs today (26 of them, screaming bloody murder the whole time. It was exhausting). Lots of variety. I won't photo bomb at this point - will wait a little bit to see more feathering patterns and post photos then. I have SOOOOO many chick photos at this point (because I photo when I weigh). Struggling to keep them sorted.

Edit to add: The Aloha NNs are a week behind the Tank and Snape babies (weighing the same at 3 weeks that the others weighed at 2 weeks). I know they need size on them already, but I wonder how much long term effect shipping has on the growth and development, esp. as I'm keeping all these records.... (Tank and his buddies were never shipped - I drove to the hatchery to pick them up.) Anyone know?

- Ant Farm

 

[I Love Layers]

I was visiting my oldest group (Tank's kids) today. They are so sweet, especially the largest cockerel, whom I have decided to name Kirk (he loves loves loves me and jumps in my lap). The more standoffish second largest cockerel (who caught up with Kirk this week in weighing) will go by Spock if he is kept. And of course, there's... KHAN!!!!!!!! Kirk (white legs): Spock (yellow legs, and he has some black markings on his feathers near the neck that the others don't have): KHAN!!!!! I weighed and banded all the Aloha NNs today (26 of them, screaming bloody murder the whole time. It was exhausting). Lots of variety. I won't photo bomb at this point - will wait a little bit to see more feathering patterns and post photos then. I have SOOOOO many chick photos at this point (because I photo when I weigh). Struggling to keep them sorted. Edit to add: The Aloha NNs are a week behind the Tank and Snape babies (weighing the same at 3 weeks that the others weighed at 2 weeks). I know they need size on them already, but I wonder how much long term effect shipping has on the growth and development, esp. as I'm keeping all these records.... (Tank and his buddies were never shipped - I drove to the hatchery to pick them up.) Anyone know? - Ant Farm

Shipping does affect. They will lose a lot of weight especially adult birds but they gain it back within a month or so. I like getting shipped juveniles rather then chicks as they can't be aggressively handled or injured as easily

 

[Phill98]

x2!!! I want to turn my blue copper marans in to naked necks! (@Kev
 , or @bramblefir
, or whoever knows, I have a Splash copper marans rooster and 2 blue copper hens and one black copper hen. What sort of naked neck would be best to cross with them to keep close to the blue/black/splash appearance?)

- Ant Farm 

Well black would be the best to keep the BBS but if you would like to keep the copper then your rose-combed rooster (I just can't remember the name) would he good choice I guess just like your black hen with red "hair".

 

[I Love Layers]

x2!!! I want to turn my blue copper marans in to naked necks! (@Kev
 , or @bramblefir
, or whoever knows, I have a Splash copper marans rooster and 2 blue copper hens and one black copper hen. What sort of naked neck would be best to cross with them to keep close to the blue/black/splash appearance?)

- Ant Farm 

Here's a breeding chart for BBS.

Anything black crossed with a splash would get full blues if that's what your looking for. But if you're looking for some of each crossing the a Blue and blue Would get you all 3 colors