Question for Turken Owners?

[BrickCoop15]

I would like to order a few turken chicks. I just wanted to know how they do in a mixed breed flock? Are they aggressive towards other birds?

 

[BrickCoop15]

Any Turken owners out there?

 

[kgby13]

The rooster I have has gone after us a few times. It also chased one of the neighbor’s hens and mated with it. He does run away from my mallard drake though.

 

[kgby13]

The hen I had years ago was very sweet. She’d come in the house and eat the dogs food. The hen I currently have doesn’t come in but does follow me around the yard. It’s the only one that does whether or not I have food.

 

[GolfChicken]

I'll await any replies as I have 6 Turkens arriving late next month

 

[AltonaAcres]

Naked Necks or Turkens are my absolute favorite breed. Docile, have personalities, hardy, great all-around chickens.

 

[BrickCoop15]

Thanks for the replies! I just ordered two. I can't wait to get them.

 

[AltonaAcres]

They are SO adorable as chicks, oh my word.

 

[flgardengirl]

I have a Naked Neck hen in with 3 Polish hens and 2 English Orp girls and an English Orp male. They all get along great. She is just like one of the girls. She lays medium sized light brown eggs just about everyday. She is very sweet and likes to be held and snuggled.

The Naked Neck and one of the Polish hens are best buddies and wait for each other to finish laying eggs when I let them out of the coop. Once they are both done, they head out into the run together and tease the guineas through the fence, dirt bath together, dig worms together etc lol. I never knew hens had total besties until these two lol.

 

[tuesdaylove]

I have a Turken hen that just turned a year old a few weeks ago. She's the first one I've ever had. She's very confident and feisty compared to her flockmates, which are a New Hampshire hen and a rooster that's half Cochin bantam, half mixed breed LF. She's extremely vocal for a hen and pretty much clucks and makes strange sounds all day, every day. She lays large eggs nearly every day. She's not aggressive towards the others, but to be fair, she might be the dominant hen. I'm actually not sure. She and the other hen seem to be equally matched. She doesn't have any attitude with the rooster.

She had some aggression issues with other birds when she was younger. She was about five months old when this particular flock was larger (I eventually had to split it into two flocks due to a surprise cockerel that I initially thought was a pullet). There was an Easter egger cockerel and a buff Orpington pullet that were both younger and smaller than the Turken, and she beat them relentlessly. I thought it was normal pecking order business, but it went on for far too long. In retrospect, I wonder if the only reason she didn't pick on the New Hampshire or the rooster was because they were both bigger than her.

But she's fine now. She's never acted aggressively towards me, even when she was broody and I had to force her off of her eggs. Speaking of which, she goes broody shockingly often for a young bird - about a few times per month. Nothing about her has been bad enough to keep me from getting another Turken someday.