Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kassaundra]

How sure was the seller the mother was a spitzhauben? or did the NN parent have a crest?

He was positive of the parentage. He didn't say the NN had a crest, I would seriously doubt he did. I thought spitzhauben were crested?

 

[pgpoultry]

Thank you , Kev....I'm very grateful for the information.

When you think you've worked out a little,you then find out that the truth is nowhere near that simple.

Blackchop's eggs were still candling viable embryos yesterday, day 17, so I am hopeful they will hatch as they have an excellent experienced Brahma 'mum'. (These were two eggs under 100g, so they should only contain one embryo). But..... Blackchops likes water, Gordon is a great flier.......their offspring could just find their OWN way across a little stretch of water......be afraid, be very afraid......

I'm really enjoying the lovely variety of NN crosses that are being pictured. As a lot of them are chicks, pictures as they develop into a huge variety of adults will be great......Keep them coming.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

He was positive of the parentage.  He didn't say the NN had a crest, I would seriously doubt he did.  I thought spitzhauben were crested?

I was surprised to hear that it came from a Spitzhauben. Here's my hen. You can see that her crest goes straight up. I've never hatched any eggs from her, so don't know what I'd get. But I'm awfully tempted now!

 

[NewToFarming]

I was surprised to hear that it came from a Spitzhauben. Here's my hen. You can see that her crest goes straight up. I've never hatched any eggs from her, so don't know what I'd get. But I'm awfully tempted now!

Oh m goodness she is a doll! I thik you will have to hatch some of her babies!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Waaaaa, I want a spangled Naked Neck!

 

[Kassaundra]

I was surprised to hear that it came from a Spitzhauben. Here's my hen. You can see that her crest goes straight up. I've never hatched any eggs from her, so don't know what I'd get. But I'm awfully tempted now!

I was suprised to when I saw especially Jackie O's top knot was so fountainy, Miss Priss's is more like that if you look at least more so then Jackie O. I did not see the parent chickens, but in reading on the spitz thread a little they were saying that getting the poofy top knots from mixing w/ polish was pretty common,(but not desireable) so I'm thinking even if the mother didn't show it (had a reg spitz top) maybe she had some polish genes hidden in there somewhere?????

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

I'm hoping to hatch out some Swedish Flower Hen/NN crosses to get a crest on a larger chicken. I love my little Spitz, but her eggs are pretty small. If I want to keep as many chickens as I do I need to be able to sell some eggs. I'm just waiting for my LF NN's from Nava to start laying.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I was thinking about egg size and my Polish x Naked Neck crosses yesterday. My Polish are LF and lay dinky little eggs.
You should get nice-sized eggs from those girls from Nava.

 

[Kev]

I was suprised to when I saw especially Jackie O's top knot was so fountainy, Miss Priss's is more like that if you look at least more so then Jackie O. I did not see the parent chickens, but in reading on the spitz thread a little they were saying that getting the poofy top knots from mixing w/ polish was pretty common,(but not desireable) so I'm thinking even if the mother didn't show it (had a reg spitz top) maybe she had some polish genes hidden in there somewhere?????

Exactly what I'm thinking too. The crest on your birds are identical to Polish mixes I had. The reason I asked about their NN being crested was considering the possibility the NN parent had polish/silkie type of crest(and evidently have silkie blood too- black skin) and it was dominant over the spitz type crest, or something like that... but yeah spitz with some polish genes is also possible. btw I've never worked with the spitz/brabanter type crest but very interested to see how it inherits and also how it looks on a NN- probably seriously cute...

 

[Kev]

Thank you , Kev....I'm very grateful for the information.

When you think you've worked out a little,you then find out that the truth is nowhere near that simple.

Blackchop's eggs were still candling viable embryos yesterday, day 17, so I am hopeful they will hatch as they have an excellent experienced Brahma 'mum'. (These were two eggs under 100g, so they should only contain one embryo). But..... Blackchops likes water, Gordon is a great flier.......their offspring could just find their OWN way across a little stretch of water......be afraid, be very afraid......

I'm really enjoying the lovely variety of NN crosses that are being pictured. As a lot of them are chicks, pictures as they develop into a huge variety of adults will be great......Keep them coming.