Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

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I haven't ever had these myself, but have seen pictures of them here on BYC, and from what I've seen of them they really need alot of work done on their crests, they don't have much crest at all.

 

[Nava]

 

[Phage]

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welcome Terri

that's lot of skin on that 1st pic

well........... at last this is the Naked Neck thread

I want to know what your post said before you edited it!!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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you dont have any pics do you?!?

 

[Buckguy20]

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I wish we were closer, I need one more blue roo.

 

[Buckguy20]

Curious- anybody working on colored egg NN or dark egger NN? I used to have dark egger NNs, turken x Araucana crossed with Marans then Welsumer roo over those Marans cross hens. Some laid fairly dark eggs, some laid really dark green eggs.
The Welsumer x Marans cross chicks were beautiful, especially the very crele looking roosters. Very flashy. Heavy meaty birds too.

I am working on a few lines of dark egg NN's.
I have a Wheaten Marans roo, a black Copper Marans roo and a Welsummer roo and I am trying to decide which one to put with Buff and Partridge NN hens. ( I need more hens)
Red NN roo over Cuckoo Maran's hens.
I am hoping to eventually get some red barred NN's. They should also be sex linked, right?​

 

[Kev]

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you dont have any pics do you?!?

Unfortunately no.

Lost tons of pictures to computer crashes... I still have one old computer in storage, should check files on that before getting rid of it.. hopefully some old pictures are on it. A lot of the projects were pre-internet and digital camera days so maybe there are some more in the picture box.

Think someone asked about the prettiest cross- mine would be the Turken x Araucana bred with cuckoo Marans, offspring bred to Welsumer.. some of them were very crele-ish, very colorful and flashy plus some laid really dark green eggs.

If you want to do naked neck Polish, I suggest getting GOOD stock Polish, not the hatchery stock. Using show quality stock to cross with gives vastly better results than crossing with 'poor quality', at least with birds bred for show looks such as Polish, silkies etc. Anyways, it's pretty straightfoward, do the outcross once, just a few naked neck chicks necessary and then breed them back to pure Polish a couple generations to set the type, good crest etc then cross two naked necked ones together to get good type birds pure for the naked neck gene.

 

[Kev]

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I am working on a few lines of dark egg NN's.
I have a Wheaten Marans roo, a black Copper Marans roo and a Welsummer roo and I am trying to decide which one to put with Buff and Partridge NN hens. ( I need more hens)
Red NN roo over Cuckoo Maran's hens.
I am hoping to eventually get some red barred NN's. They should also be sex linked, right?

Brilliant!! I just commented on my experience outcrossing with Marans then Welsumer. Got some very crele looking birds, thought they were beautiful birds.

Cuckoo is sex linked. The chicks with head spots from that cross will be all males. Keep the best one and breed with red hens... half will be red, but may still have to work on improving the red and clearing out the markings from the red areas.

Don't know if you're aware already, barring(same thing as cuckoo) tends to be crisper or more well defined on darker/heavily pigmented birds. It would not be horrible to use RIR, especially the very dark deeply colored ones in this program, to deepen the red and bring out the barring more. The only thing some RIR lines are known to throw very aggressive roosters..

Definitely looking forward to your results with the red barred project!

Buff/lemon cuckoo usually get a lot of attention too, the barring tends to be a little diffuse, giving them a 'soft' pattern. btw raising a lavender cuckoo bantam NN cockerel right now, curious how that color will turn out as he matures.

Many buffs are wheaten based, plus diluters to make their body solid buff. Would be good if you wanted more buff birds, however you could also eventually end up with true Crele roosters using wheaten plus cuckoo. Hens will look way different from crele hens though.

 

[Kev]

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That needs to be made the official welcome to newbies for this thread!

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

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The pure lavender NN is the cockerel and the black hen has the lavender gene SO if I remember everything Kev told me correctly
I'll get 1/2 blacks, 1/2 lavenders AND 1/2 NN, 1/2 bowtie.

Great pics, looks like you have an amazing set up for the chickens?! Correct on color, as for bowties- 1/2 like on hen, 1/2 like on cockerel.. *maybe* the occasional totally bare necks, as I got 2 total bare neck chicks from the same group..

Couldn't promise on the end size of the cockerel, as the parents were crosses between a really small bantam and a largish bantam(like the hen), so the second generation could be from pretty small to large bantam.

Going to make mille fleur NN? let me know if you succeed in that, especially if clean leg.. btw porcelain is mille with lavender added, so if you use the lav cockerel, you should end up with porcelains too. he will breed them fine, the milles will grow some more anyhow..

I can't wait for the necks on lav cockerels to turn candy apple red, should be great contrast with the soft lav color..

Me too!!

I was afraid the roo might be too big to cover the Mille Fleur hen...I mean, I know he can do it, just don't want her getting hurt. It wasn't something I planned, but I'm definitely thinking I'd like to see what they produce.

The little hen is a doll!! She follows me around

, I'm her new best friend!

She has a lot of personality. Let's me pick her right up. A big plus for me!!!

Nava , looks like the NN thread has it's own logo! Love it!!

flower Congratulations on your little egg!! You're cracking me up

So many lovely roos!! Nice to see the NN love spreading