Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Deanna! Congratulations on your new Naked Neck chicks! No idea on color, but anything is possible. I *think* yellow down usually indicates white feathers, but I don't know about the other colors coming in on her wings.
Good luck!

Lisa

 

[mayberrygirl]

Thank you! As promised, here are pics of my NNs. Now one is clearly red and wing feathers are coming in deep red with a lighter red on the tips.

day old pic of my NN girls:

pic from last night with our buff minorca beside her & EEs behind her booder mates:

pic from today:

 

[maralpz2006]

there are cute, they are gonna be red

 

[mayberrygirl]

Well the one for sure is red, but as you see the yellow one is clearly looking either Mille fleur or spangled ( the feathers are buff to black/dark brown with white tips) - neither of which are breed standards, but I think she is going to be beautiful.

 

[maralpz2006]

i think they are going to be red, mine babies were the same look mille fleur ,but they become to be red

 

[mayberrygirl]

Can I hope your wrong, LOL. Do you have any pics of your as chicks?? I was really hoping for NN I can tell apart in the same coop.

 

[Kev]

Sorry to be bearer of bad news.. that feather pattern is common on miscellaneous chicks & doesn't have anything to do with mottling. They eventually lose the white edging as they grow. I don't think that one will be red though.. either buff or possibly mostly white if she's silver.. am wondering if her extra light down may be indicator of silver.

Mottling has shown up in a few hatchery stock turkens.. they are very beautiful. personally have never been so lucky but there are a couple pictures somewhere on this forum, possibly even on this thread?

I have not raised very many mottleds, from reading around it appears mottling often is not obvious on a chick until relatively well feathered out, and become much more distinctly mottled once they finally molt out to adult plumage. There's some variation too, some mottleds turn out more or less penguin colored- chest feathers coming out white with rest mosly solid colored.

Here's hoping that chick will eventually turn out mottled for you anyways!

 

[Kev]

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They seemed to be good, solid bodied chicks! Also seems to have dominant white.. thinking the random little patches on some is indicator of that. If you want more of this color, breed with white leghorn or a "red sex link" chicken with white tail and spots on neck. Then cross with a black naked neck. Using leghorn will give problems with white in earlobes though, that is very tough to breed out so if you don't want that, use a red sex link instead.

 

[Kev]

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Normally there is not anything visible on NN hen necks. The exceptions are clumsy, aggressive, or too many roos trying to mate with NN pullets. Their skins are thin when young...

How bad is her neck? Was there any scratches or cuts? If she's getting cuts, that's not normal.. the roo is being way too clumsy with her and needs some more time maturing.

 

[mayberrygirl]

Thanks Kev, I hope she stays mottled or what ever the pattern is, but if not no biggie - I just hope she does stay lighter, silver or buff would be nice... So long as we can tell one from the other.

Oh, and the roos I have are EEs so will the offspring be olive eggers?