Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickgrowerdan]

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Ver nice rooster ! I sure hope some one local can keep him. The rest of us are too far.

Maybe these are closer for some folks?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=559868

Here is another speckled sussex cross chick.

 

[LisaAnnW]

Me too! He'd be a handsome mate for my hen.

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[Hedera]

Yes! Likely Getting another NN

*dances around like a maniac*

Shes a pretty buff. Hope she doesnt get sold before i snatch her up!

 

[pgpoultry]

This is my next breeding project......they may be a bit young yet, but, next spring, maybe.

Jezobel (above) and another who has the same parents and looks exactly the same, with Lestat (cockerel on the far left)

and a few pure bred black NNs of both sexes with no bow ties.

I've also got Gordon, Blondie (NN cross in the pic. above) and a little silver NN cross chick just hatched plus a few black NN's with bow ties. A nice little genetic soup?

The possibilities seem endless........ the chicks may be bizarre.....but I have a liking for the bizarre.

Maybe I'll get blue, maybe blue with horns, maybe black with horns (oh boy).....Kev can you help here??

 

[jelly713]

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Ver nice rooster ! I sure hope some one local can keep him. The rest of us are too far.

Maybe these are closer for some folks?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=559868

Here is another speckled sussex cross chick.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68265_100_0817.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68265_100_0816.jpg

Nice lookin' beard!

 

[catsew]

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Ver nice rooster ! I sure hope some one local can keep him. The rest of us are too far.

Maybe these are closer for some folks?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=559868

They're all males though? That would be closer for me.

 

[chickgrowerdan]

I've witnessed all those fellers crow. They are starting to annoy their daddy and he thinks he has to show them how to REALLY crow. The neighbors are growing less impressed by the day.

 

[catsew]

If I didn't have all boys already, I might have been interested. I'm never going to get eggs at the rate I'm going.

 

[Nitrostreak]

Alrighty. I won't start my Serama/Turken experiment until next season at the very earliest, but I have a few questions that I hope nobody minds me asking here, and that I suppose I should ask BEFORE I get started.

Firstly, some very VERY elementary questions... That I'm sure are very silly.

When crossbreeding, does the rooster have any affect on egg color/size?
How exactly does size work in chickens? I've only studies breeding in horses before, so I'm guessing it's going to be different. (I know that, in horses, the foal will usually inherit one height or the other, but it occasionally will be somewhere in between. Also, a small horse bred to a large stud could be dangerous for the smaller mare, as the colt could be very large already when born. I'm /guessing/ that, since eggs are layed with OR without a rooster, he won't affect the eggs at all.)
If a chick hatches from a medium sized egg from a standard sized hen and a Serama sized rooster, what can I expect? Would the chick /hatch/ at the size the egg suggests and just not grow as big a purebred chick from the same sized egg?

Sorry for all the amateur questions, but it's better to ask than to go on without a clue, right?

 

[Hedera]

Woot getting 2 turkens!

Both hens, maybe i can finally start breeding them !