Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Hey everyone, I'm getting two Naked necks and some other chicken breeds later this year, I need to learn as much about them as possibly! Im new to naked necks so any information will help!

Hi and welcome! The bottom line is.. no real difference in taking care of them compared to other breeds. If you've raised chicks before at all, you're 100% good to go with NN chicks or any other breed.

 

[CP Chicken]

Hi and welcome!   The bottom line is.. no real difference in taking care of them compared to other breeds.  If you've raised chicks before at all,  you're 100% good to go with NN chicks or any other breed.

I have a flock of silkies and and a bunch of different breeds of chickens too so I'm happy to know that the naked necks aren't really that different from the rest of them!

 

[CP Chicken]

Hello.....WELCOME...and be prepared to fall in love with the breed. Have you checked out the breed write-ups on them here on the BYC. I ask because I know at least a few of them have written about them and I think you'll find a lot of good info there to get your started. 

Thanks for the welcome and help. I haven't looked at the breed write-ups yet but i'll for sure look through them on BYC!

 

[Kev]

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I've since seen them described as cold tolerant(that I would believe) or not very heat tolerant.. as for claims of heat tolerance, I think regional/climate differences play a part.. out here in the desert heat, with 110-120F summers there is a marked difference in heat vs non heat tolerant breeds. Someone in Georgia would be able to breed and raise the big show stock cornish chickens while the very same bird would not even make it past mid spring here(also from personal experience).. I was surprised with the welsummers as they aren;t particularly heavy, so it may be something else about them but did notice the older hens were pretty fatty.. this is a rather reliable sign of something that won;t handle the desert heat too well.

Another thing I have noticed... younger birds are more heat tolerant than fully mature birds. example many of the welsummer pullets made it past one year only to drop dead in the heat as 2 yr olds. So the cockerels dropping dead showed their heat tolerance was way low to begin with.

Mine were from back when they were recently imported along English marans. Welsumers were from sandhill.

p.s. welsummer roosters also have a reputation for attacking people pretty bad(seems common for them to suddenly up and start doing that one day, after they pass one yr of age. many of the stories strangely sound the same- rooster running full bore across the yard and slamming into a kid or somone) and hard to stop. Never noticed aggression in mine but maybe they didn;t get to live long enough to show it.. The hens were perfectly nice and rather beautiful.

 

[Kev]

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Do it do it go for it!

 

[Kev]

Feeling a bit frustrated...my DC and big DC/CX boys just aren't able to catch and mount any of my NN girls, and I'm reluctant to stress everyone out in this heat by putting them in confining areas to seal the deal. And even worse, my DC/CX hen doesn't appear to be laying any eggs, even though she climbs into the nesting box and sings the egg song at the top of her lungs, AND she's been routinely mated by one of my NN roosters. I was really counting on hatching some NN-mix eggs from these guys, but it's not looking too promising...and the temperatures are climbing rapidly. By Saturday we're supposed to hit 93*.

So...right now it looks like I may only be hatching 6-10 eggs from my NN/EE matings. I really can't wait to see what this pairing in particular may look like:

Zazzle, who carries the blue egg gene....


...over Muffin, my EE hen who lays VERY blue eggs on a regular basis and looks to me like an impressionist painter got his hands on her.


As you can see, she'd previously been housed with some birds that relentlessly picked at her tail. Those little assailants are gone now, and Muffin has a lovely little tail.

@Kev - Any idea what the offspring may look like?

Ahhh nooo what is it with cornish not breeding properly this spring?! completely understand not wanting to mess with the cornish.. I would not even pick up the cx when it got warm either.. but if you do try to arrange something, try the broadest shouldered hens. the cx roo was not able to breed narrow hens at all....

the cx pullet was not a good layer at all.. seems Kass says the same(unless they;ve gotten better?) but as soon as she lays... save and incubate those eggs! toss eggs already in the incubator if you have to.. trust me on this.

I suspect both may be the same main color or share many color/pattern traits at least, except for beautiful(I love her patterns and color!) Muffin having mottle and blue and Zazzle having barring.

I'd guess the chicks to grow up mostly like Zazzle, with and without the barring(both sexes). Throw blue in the mix for some blue buff barreds, blue tail buffs. No mottles, unless he is a secret mottle carrier.

the blue leg shows she has white skin. At least half of the chicks will grow to have white legs(on barreds) or blue(non barred). Have to say she is fairly unusual in having very dark legs for a mottle(it likes to make the leg spotty too).. any chance she is fibro?

 

[Kev]

Hatched 2 EE Nn chicks this weekend! So cute! NN roo over Ameraucana hen, this is 1 of the chicks in the pic, yellow one. Both are yellow and yellow legs, however both Roo and Hen have slate legs, so this is interesting! Both hatched from the blue eggs!

It may be they are still young and not yet developing leg color. does look yellow in pic though... (not good news for the amer being pure.. )

yellow skin is recessive.. so white and slate legs are dominant over yellow and green legs. in other words blue legs can carry hidden the gene for yellow/green legs. but a pair of yellow./green legged parents cannot ever produce white or slate legged chicks.

 

[Kassaundra]

Well my brother in law has come and gone, and left 3 two day old chicks. Seems 200 escaped, and 6 were under his truck, which he captured but only 3 made it to the end of the work day. They were pretty chilled and weak. I have them under heat, all have had food (boiled siblings eggs) and water. They seem a bit spunkier, but they have had quite an ordeal.

 

[islafarm]

In case you've never seen one, this is what a Silkie processes out like:




Yes, the skin is blue. The meat underneath, a hint of which you can see, and a really deep black/red color, and even the tendons and ligaments are black to nearly black. My Silkies weren't nearly as dark as something like an Ayam Cemani would be, but this should at least give you an idea of what to expect.

There's a setting for quotes in your personal preference/settings.

I've rose comb fibro NN, it looks rather cool but no roosters at the moment.. trying really hard to keep bird numbers down so had to cull/select very severely.

btw the bones actually are dark. it varies too.. the ones with jet black bones with a purple sheen on them is rather beautiful if grisly... I'm surprised there doesn;t seem to be a taxidermy example of fibro skeleton? I don't know if the color goes away after drying/treating or..?

as for blue NN.. all you need is the blue gene over a solid black chicken.. the koekoeks are genetically black(barring cuckoo is simply the barred gene over a solid black chicken) so you got the black and NN parts covered so far...

have you posted pictures of those fibro rose combed hens on the thread? Would it be possible to ever have a fibro scaleless

Ancel

 

[islafarm]

Well my brother in law has come and gone, and left 3 two day old chicks. Seems 200 escaped, and 6 were under his truck, which he captured but only 3 made it to the end of the work day. They were pretty chilled and weak. I have them under heat, all have had food (boiled siblings eggs) and water. They seem a bit spunkier, but they have had quite an ordeal.

Poor things, I'm sure if these guys make it they'll be the luckiest of the 200 escapees.