Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Do you know how hard it is to resist hatching out chicks when you see all these fantastic NN's??!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I know! It is irrestible! I'm shuffling everybody around, got new girls just started laying or POL that have been used to 'running loose' and are balking at the idea of fences (as in... haha, I'm going back to my old coop --- fence be danged).
After I move them 12 or 15 nights, they'll settle in.
edit: irrestible?? Is there such a word?
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[flower]

KKH Lisa is working up courage to ship chicks come spring time.

 

[Nava]

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tell me about it

 

[All-American-Chick]

dipsy doodle,
Are your nns small?
The 2 we have from the eggs I bought from you either are very slow at growing or are bantams.
they seem so tiny to the other birds that we hatched at the same time.
One has 5 toes on a foot.It is a black frizzle,so cute and doesnt mind cuddles and the other is a splash.gorgous bird and hopingf it is a pullet.
I was just wondering if these will stay small.
either way they are interesting and a great convo piece.

 

[pgpoultry]

All-American-Chick where are the pictures?.....VERY important on this thread. Even if they are 'large fowl', they are pretty small in my opinion (but I'm used to monster Brahmas and some NN crosses that have achieved extraordinary size). My 'LF' Naked Necks are about the same size as a commercial brown egg layer (ISA Brown) or similar, which is only a medium sized bird.

Hatching chicks is an addiction....many of us hopelessly hooked....then the daftest of us spend the rest of our time trying to re-home the inevitable male excess and looking after the less- than- standard ones for many years.

Nicalanda....my little Arianne (or Aryan) is a different colour from these blues....here's Jordan, next to one of the results of too many hatches....a messed-up Brahma.

Arianne also has black splodges, and what looks like four and a half toes on one foot (three normal toes and a toe which splits into two with two nails), and a comb which is developing as a single prong unicorn style. Oh man.....just right for breeding with some of my other frightful misfits, then.

That little bantam red NN has some VERY impressive facial furniture!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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Hi Renee! Yes please --- PICS.
They can be small. If it was an egg marked NB, those are bantams. If it was marked #1, #2, or Tx , those are not bantams but the children can be on the small side.
I started with a LF NN crossed to a Silkie and carried on from there, crossing to Frizzle Cochin, Ameraucana, Jersey Giant and the girls in pen #2 have a generation crossed to Plymouth Rock.
I've got my 2 smallest NN frizzle green-egger hens in the spare room (because they molted and are nekked still) and I'll weigh them today.

They are tiny compared to PG's beautiful Brahma NN's, hahaha!

The dwarf-chick is doing well. I moved him down to the brooder with the week-younger chicks, then moved him again to the brooder with the 2-week-younger chicks --- so he wasn't getting trampled. He's growing, but gosh, he's still such a tiny thing.

Lisa

 

[Kev]

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Lavenders are very even in color(or shaded if the bird has both gold and black pigments). No dark splotches, laces or having the tail/hackle/saddles distinctly darker than the body(more noticeable on adult blue roosters). One of the common names for solid lavender birds is "self blue" which hints at the even-ness of the grey shade on lavenders.

Blue on other hand is extremely variable, can be really light(some even look so light/even they look lavender-ish) all way to so dark they look visually black(and surprise the owner by producing more obviously shaded blue chicks...). They also can be bred to have a laced look to their feathers(light blue feathers with black edges)- afaik, not possible with lavenders. Very common for roosters to have hackles and saddles a couple shades darker than their body. Hens with heads and tails darker than on body is also common but there are plenty with the same shade throughout.

Your Arianne has dark splotches which rules out any chance of it being lavender.

One other hint of blue vs lavender is if the bird has gold pigments anywhere on it, it will be diluted to a straw/blond color while on most blues, the golds will be either normal or almost normal. There are unrelated genes that can lighten the gold, if these are on a blue/gold bird, they can look almost lavenderish, those are relatively uncommon & usually don't have a strongly "pastel" look(porcelains are a great example of how lavender works on black and gold pigments).

 

[Hedera]

I never did show a pic of one of my NN pullets. This pic was from about a month ago.

Her name is Opal.

 

[pgpoultry]

Thank you again for coming to the rescue on the genetics questions, Kev. Blue (s)he is then.....oh please let it be a four and a half toed, unicorn combed SHE, at least. Actually so little comb and the feather pattern looks female.

Keep the pictures coming, in many ways they are more educational than a whole paragraph of text.