Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

I thought that gypsy faced one looked like a girl, but I thought well maybe "he" is young a late bloomer and at a bad angle.

that was an old pic. she is bigger now and definitely a girl.

 

[chickengr]

View attachment 1078776

what is this beauty?

 

[chickengr]

They are very much an underappreciated chicken. It's too bad so many are not able to see past the neck or regard them as ornamental, "useless".

When I moved out to my own place, discovered poultry catalogs were a thing and ordered a McMurray catalog. Ordered multiples of different breeds.. but only one turken, a sexed pullet in case I did not like them and did not want a NN rooster "ruining everything". Guess which one turned out to be my favorite? I absolutely loved that hen. And turkens are the only breed I still have from those early picks lol...

I don't know all the nitty gritty for npip but think that is correct as for shipping eggs across state lines. But um, it goes on all the time.

the reason I wanted naked necks is because they are ornamental birds to me, lol.

 

[Bluechick2u]

Because I love encouraging people to experiment and have fun:



If you can breed and hatch your own, any barred roo over a NN hen is best way to get barred NN in both sexes.

Non barred roo over a barred hen gives barring only to the sons. Daughters won't be barred. However you can still breed the barred son over any hen and get them in both sexes.

Thank you! This is priceless info, sounds like I can make auro-sexing naked necks!

 

[Bluechick2u]

Because I love encouraging people to experiment and have fun:



If you can breed and hatch your own, any barred roo over a NN hen is best way to get barred NN in both sexes.

Non barred roo over a barred hen gives barring only to the sons. Daughters won't be barred. However you can still breed the barred son over any hen and get them in both sexes.

You definitely mean barred only, not cuckoo right? Just realized I have only cuckoo feathered birds, including my neiderrheiners that I was specifically hoping to do a naked neck neiderrheiner project (lemon cuckoo feathers)

 

[Kev]

You definitely mean barred only, not cuckoo right? Just realized I have only cuckoo feathered birds, including my neiderrheiners that I was specifically hoping to do a naked neck neiderrheiner project (lemon cuckoo feathers)

Barred and cuckoo is the same gene. The difference is due to things like rate of feather growth- fast growing feathers tends to produce the cuckoo, slow makes crisper, parallel bars and some other things.

you certainly could start on that project. Do you have that breed? If you do, just breed a red or buff NN to a neid, sex of the parents don't matter if there's a group of nieds. Pick the best NN offspring from each generation and breed back to a pure nied until you are happy..

Lacking nieds, breed either cuckoo or barred with red or buff.. then breed the barred/cuckoo NN back to a buff, there will be some buff barred/cuckoo in the second generation.

Good luck and have fun!

 

[Kev]

the reason I wanted naked necks is because they are ornamental birds to me, lol.

Hehe, well yeah they are pretty..

 

[Bluechick2u]

Barred and cuckoo is the same gene. The difference is due to things like rate of feather growth- fast growing feathers tends to produce the cuckoo, slow makes crisper, parallel bars and some other things.

you certainly could start on that project. Do you have that breed? If you do, just breed a red or buff NN to a neid, sex of the parents don't matter if there's a group of nieds. Pick the best NN offspring from each generation and breed back to a pure nied until you are happy..

Lacking nieds, breed either cuckoo or barred with red or buff.. then breed the barred/cuckoo NN back to a buff, there will be some buff barred/cuckoo in the second generation.

Good luck and have fun!

So glad you are back on this thread, your info is so helpful and entertaining!

 

[Kev]

So glad you are back on this thread, your info is so helpful and entertaining!

Aw, thank you for the kind words. It's nice being back amongst us cool people- NN fans.

 

[Bluechick2u]

Someone welcomed a new member on another post with this link:

[/QUOTE]
I think they need one of these for us old members who are frustrated with the new site mechanics!