Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickgrowerdan]

I'm sure it's splash, here is mom and my only rooster.

This is one of the sussex crosses.

 

[Evelle]

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are you a collector of "special" chickens??
i have a RIR with diebetes and thats just one of mine

 

[The Red Rooster]

Some of you wanted pictures of my new Turken, so here they are! She's six weeks old.

 

[The Red Rooster]

...and she's very small. The pictures make her look big. How big do they get? Normal chicken size?

Another question.. how do they fair in Winter? Can they get frost bite on their neck?

 

[NewToFarming]

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She is gorgeous! Thanks for posting. There are standard and bantam NN's. My girls were in PA last winter and they did fine! I would keep feeling their necks because they worried me but they were always warm.

 

[The Red Rooster]

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She is gorgeous! Thanks for posting. There are standard and bantam NN's. My girls were in PA last winter and they did fine! I would keep feeling their necks because they worried me but they were always warm.

Thank you!

She is cute! Even my family is warming up to her. I will keep feeling her neck for coldness. I don't think it will be a problem though.

It's to cute how she still peeps like a baby.

 

[LisaAnnW]

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They're like potato chips, Juan - you can't stop at one!

it's PK Lisa just come on by and we'll help you both fill that bag of potato chips

bator is getting loaded here pretty soon, just get your brooders ready

Who wants splash NN's?

Race you there, Juan!

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[flower]

The Red Rooster to answer your question about size. It looks like you have a "pure" NN but is she a bantam or standard size. The bantams are usually mixed with other breeds to attain size. So the bantam size varies according to the mix. And actually the standards are frequently a mix also. In my experience, which is not hugh, the males standards are usually very large half their females . And when you compare them to the males they look sort of small. But at the present I have a females that is over five pounds which means that she is not small for a hen.

So tho really answer your question about size...............it depends on the parents

chickgrowerdan Nice parents/ nice splash. But what breed is the mother ? Looks like a blue Wyandotte or mix thereof : some orpington ? father is a handsome

 

[pgpoultry]

The Red Rooster....that's a very pretty little girl. If it's anything to go by, my Mort who is pure male LF NN weighs just over 7 lbs at 18 months and Treacle, pure NN hen of the same age weighs a little over 5lbs (but she has not been egg laying for some months and feels a bit fat). My pure hens are about the same size as an ISA brown.

Evelle.....I end up with quite a few 'odds and ends' as I don't cull anything unless it is suffering unduly due to illness etc or (theoretically) too aggressive to be part of the flock. This has never happened to date and is also the reasons that mornings around our place are a VERY noisy affair....and the rest of the day for that matter.

Whilst most of my hens are in winter slow down with regards to laying, my massive cross NN, Blackchops, has taken to laying eggs in keeping with her size

From consecutive days....weights 96g and 89g......not sure how many yolks they will have yet.

 

[chickgrowerdan]

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Her name is Blue and I do claim her to be a Wyandotte even though she is a mix. Her sister Rosie, picture to follow, looks much like an Orpington and so that's what she is called when folks ask. These two along with the pair in my avatar all came from Nava and will celebrate their first birthday on 12/3. The only problem I seem to have is that the roo is too polite to service the one NN hen despite the fact that they are nearly joined at the hip most of the time. I had a run of 14 eggs that were developed but an 8 hour power outage ruined that and I got only one chick from those eggs which ended up being a roo. So, after several more failed attempts to get development I resorted to the feathered hens to get more NNs for him to try to breed next season.

Rosie

Blue's first pullet, Peggy Sue