Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[IamTheChickenWhisperer]

SO under breed put ALL OTHERS instead of Turken and under Variety put ????? what??? I want to put I MADE IT AND I LIKE IT. LOL But seriously.......

 

[Buckguy20]

Red, black, Buff and white aare the only recognized breeds.
Blue has not been accepted.
The last organized effort to get them approved has fallen apart.

A few of us here in Ok are trying to get it going again.

There has to be ten different breeders show at least five birds of the variety at sanctioned shows in order to meet the requirements.
The problem is that there aren't very many people showing NNs and those that do don't have blues.
I talked to the main guy from the National NN club at the National Show backin December and he was the one telling me that there aren't enough show folks interested in them to keep the effort going.

 

[Phage]

WOW!!!!
did you candle them?
I did not get any PM????

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[Nava]

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Hey Buck, count me in,I'll show 5 NN's just let me know

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

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So strange...several of my PM's didn't go out....wonder what's up with that.
I had PM'd you wondering how old this hen I had was since I had no clue and I hadn't even seen her in the nest box. Then she laid this olive egg.

 

[Phage]

From memory I would say she hatched between mid june and mid July. They are the only times I has NN eggs.

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So strange...several of my PM's didn't go out....wonder what's up with that.
I had PM'd you wondering how old this hen I had was since I had no clue and I hadn't even seen her in the nest box. Then she laid this olive egg.

 

[chickbird]

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i have had problems in raising turkens also, i lost my last hen, she was sitting and for some reason left her eggs, i incubated them and have two little turkens from these, but she just stopped eating and died within a day. i just love them, mine were all so gentle and sociable. i had ordered mine from ideal, but i have had problems with most of the chicks i got from them.

 

[Kev]

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I betcha Kev has some as do many other folks. The NN just need to be mated with a blue eggs gene rooster and back again. Why not try the breeding both way. If you have both hen and rooster with blue eggs gene (and the pea comb with slate feet hen who lays blue eggs certainly has the blue eggs gene) mate with NN rooster and some percentage of your birds will carry the blue egg gene.

I learned more about the blue eggs gene on the EE and NN thread than any other. For instance I learned that a hen can have both brown and blue eggs genes, the result is the OLIVE eggs.

Where is Kev anyway ? I am thinking of sending out a search party !

Wow.. been without internet for several weeks. Was with family over the holidays, then came home to phone totally dead. Took a while to get that up and running. Good to be back into "reality"!

Now.. going through this thread..

I sure do.. colored egg turkens. Used to have bunch of blue eggers, but crossed out to brown eggers so most eggs are coming out greenish. As of right now, only one hen lays what would be considered blue.. Lisa would be the best source for blue shade eggs I think.

Mine are also the rare case of something that's called cross over in genetics. It is true in majority the blue egg gene is closely linked to pea comb, however occasionally cross over happens where the blue egg gene 'goes on separate way' apart from the pea comb gene. So all of my colored egg turkens have single combs, not pea combs because of this. (deliberately bred them this way, because I wanted birds that look like the "usual turkens" including the single combs but lay colored eggs).

As for the typical stock, it is true that pea comb is a pretty good sign of what color hen will lay out of a blue- not blue egg cross, IF the other breed used does not have pea comb too. Also be aware that in EE, birds with pea combs but lacking the blue egg gene are not uncommon(hens with this kind of gene combination lay brown/tan/pink eggs), so it is not exactly fool proof.

Leg color has nothing to do with egg color though.

 

[Kev]

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Congrats on your new birds! Black breasted turkens are pretty rare. Usually from backyard breeders who let their birds mix with whatever else there is, so if something BBR is in the flock, then naked necked BBR birds can happen. In any case, BBR is a very rare color in large/heavy fowl.. try naming a large breed that has this color accepted(and don't mean Old English or the oriental type breeds).

Legs supposed to be yellow, except for black which standard call for black legs.

 

[Kev]

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I think full size as all the eggs were totally HUGE, (and a pretty green). If it was a bantam egg, that would be some egg for a bantam. Kev snuck some in when I was getting some other eggs from him, so I did not get much info on them. He is determined to convert us all into NN lovers.

What Phage? I think it was more like you snuck the eggs into the carton when I wasn't looking..........

Knock, I have a suspicion as to which hen is the mother of your girl. She's also 'in between bantam and standard'. She lays big eggs as Phage says. Pretty big if you consider her size. It's something I try to select for in one group, large or bigger egg size and she is in that group.