Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[pgpoultry]

It's been raining extra-heavily all day, so I have not been able to do a lot.
So maralpz2006, my Mort would like to say "Hello".

This guy has been so sick, but now is well, and has a lovely nature.

Your girls NEED one of these.

 

[flowerchild59]

This may have been addressed already, but have any of you used the turken as a cross for a meat bird? I have been reading about the french meat birds that are marketed as having such great meat qualities and many of them are turken crosses.
I have some lovely turkens that I would love to cross with a delaware roo or a cornish male. Just wondering.

 

[maralpz2006]

pgpoultry yes i want a roo like that,he is so handsome

 

[Small Red]

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Sorry for your hen :-( but I would say just bad luck. I had several NN breds in both large and bantam over the last 10-15 years and never had any problems with them.

 

[flower]

Hello Mort so glad to see you and hear that you are feeling better, you handsome guy you. My NN hen has your picture on her wall so she can dream of you.

FLOWERCHILD59 there are several hatcheries that market NN/cornish crosses as preduction meat birds and a few folks have posted here that they bought and raised the very birds with good success. And there are many here that have made such crosses. PGPoultry for example has Brahma/NN crosses that are very large and good looking. She is working on a new projct called devil NNs. If you go back about 10 pages and even more and read the information you will learn a good deal of stuff. Nice pictures also can be found. It is a great and friendly thread.

 

[pgpoultry]

Mort sends all of his love to your he, flower, he is filled with pride and gratitude.

My NN X Brahmas are huge, sturdy and very healthy. They have a prodigious growth rate.

My NN X la Fleche experiment has stalled as hubby pulled out the incubator lead accidentally, and I didn't realise until almost a full day later. When I discovered what had happened the eggs were stone cold (ambient temp only 14 degrees C

). I'm MORTified...........but I won't give up, I'll get some more when I can.....but I'm SOOOOO sad right now.

Keep posting pictures of NNs to console me....PLEASE.

 

[chickgrowerdan]

This is my newest addition.

Mom is a speckled sussex and dad is naked neck blue.

mom

dad

 

[flower]

Well I am very sorry for you but I think that you should have restarted the incubator and tried to get a few of them to hatch if the stoppage was within the first half of the incubation. This opinion is based on reading about a hatchery that starts the eggs incubating before they send them out via the post. Sounds very unusual but they give more details which convinced me that it might not be a bad idea. Ya never know until you have tried it.

As soon as I can I will post a picture of my pretty hen. I have done so already but now she is four months old and I think quite a looker. And PG good luck on your new batch of La Fleche.
Does it have others to grow up with or just the parents ?


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[pgpoultry]

I did re-start the incubator as I have had chicks hatch even when we have had power cuts, broodies have decided to go on a holiday, and where my old incubator went to temperatures well outside of the acceptable range. I think that the lead may have been out for as long as 24 hours, though, so I have to be realistic.....So I'll let you know if anything looks alive in a couple of days......it will be useful information for others who find themselves in the same position.

i wonder if the chick in the previous post will be speckled?

Flower, Mort looks forward to the pic. so he can print it and crow at it.

I'll take pics. of the NN X Blue Partridge and a couple of other NN's I have today, too.

 

[OHmamma]

PG~ I have had mine out over 12+ hours and when I found it the temp was 53* it took 4 hours to get it back up to 99.5 in the bator but the eggs were probably chilled much longer. I still had a 60% hatch and they were Marans eggs which are hard to hatch usually. Don't give up

I love NN and Lafleache so I would love to see your devils. I only have two NN left since the coyote came calling and ate the little roo. Both are BCM crosses. I was considering crossing them with a Houdan next spring...Hows about that one? They have a horned looking comb too.

Here is a shot of my Turken/Marans bug....she came out safe with all her feathers I just can't figure out how she got up hig enough to get caught!