Turkens - hens or roosters?

[featherz]

Lovely chickens, they are all gorgeous. I see what you mean, I'll look at it's feathers when I go out later, and our other roosters. We are going to keep it whether it's a hen or roo we have decided. =) As you said, we can breed our own NN's, I'm really enjoying the breed.

Yah, at that age if you can catch the chicken, part the feathers near the rear end.. on a boy at 10-12 weeks or so you should see the little shiny pointy saddle feathers coming in under the others.

 

[kcaywood]

I agree that it's too early to call #2 a roo. It looks just like my NN pullet did at that age. She's a great layer of big, light brown eggs now.

 

[Shianne]

I will catch it and see, the chickens are fairly easy to catch. I know for sure some of our chicks are roosters, as they are crowing, so I'll have my sister help me get a roo and that Turken and compare feathers. =) We are already keeping 3 roo's from our hen runs, and this one will be staying as well either way now.

 

[Pidgey104]

Looks like all three are hens to me

 

[MamaMarcy]

I vote hens on all 3 too....but #2 would be the most suspicous for a roo (I'd give it time)

These are my 2 bantam NN girls. Less than 9 mo old. Juststarted laying gorgeous little brown eggs a week ago.

OH...do only NN roos make NN babies or can a NN hen contribute the gene with a non NN roo?? I have 4 NN eggs (roo is a bantam cochin frizzle)...

 

[mandelyn]

All 3 are girls. My male is red as can be and growing a big comb at 5 weeks old.

 

[msmeower]

Does anyone know if there is a sex link color gene in turkens? I hatched out a dozen turken eggs that a friend gave me. Her roo is mostly white with black and her hens were a variety of colors but mostly red or buff. All of the male offspring are white with black and all of the female offspring are red/buff. Coincidence?

 

[mandelyn]

No sexlink colors, because they can be about any color. Dice roll on color with them unless you go with a breeder who has bred for a specific color and they breed true, when bred to the same color.

The NN gene is dominant, seems like a hen should contribute something too, but I'm not sure.

 

[Shianne]

I vote hens on all 3 too....but #2 would be the most suspicous for a roo (I'd give it time)

These are my 2 bantam NN girls. Less than 9 mo old. Juststarted laying gorgeous little brown eggs a week ago.

OH...do only NN roos make NN babies or can a NN hen contribute the gene with a non NN roo?? I have 4 NN eggs (roo is a bantam cochin frizzle)...

Oh my, I want to see them babies when they hatch and as they grow! We have a cochin frizzle bantam roo as well I was thinking about breeding to the turkens next year, so would Love to see yours. Your Turkens are lovely, love the whiteish one.
I hope the hens matter, I was hopping breeding them to our roo's would produce more Turkens.

 

[MamaMarcy]

Ok, I don't mean to steal the thread but I have to tell you about my 2 NN's.

they aren't just naked necks they are MIRACLE NN's


I ordered them from someone on here. They were shipped, wrapped beautifully, etc...so this is no fault of the seller.

I ordered a dozen eggs and a dizen were sent. I was away fromt he house the day they arrived and it had started snowing. The mail lady decided to take them to the PO for 2 reasons. (I found this out later) 1) she knew I order eggs often so didn't want them to get cold and 2) there was package damage. She has never taken another package back before...ever.

so, I get the little orange note saying to pick the package up at the post office. Ok but there was a weekend and a Monday holiday, so the date to pick up was like 4 days later. The snow didn't stop for about 2 feet. We were stuck at home, unable to drive. For days. By now the eggs were so old and streets were still so bad I just put thenote back in to redeliver the enxt business day.

So, when the eggs were SIXTEEN days old she brought them back to me. The box had old yolk all over it.

I almost put the whole box intot he trash can outside but decided to brign it in and see what the USPS had done to it. It looke dlike a punching bag. I opened it at the kitchen sink. The 12 eggs were in an egg carton, each egg bubble wrapped nicely. Three had been crushed and the innards spilled all over and stunk to high ehavens. Rotten egg was inside of all the bubble wrap, bathing the other 9 eggs. I set the 9 eggs in a colander in the sink and was so sad for them. I decided to do soemthign stupid and put them in the incubator because I felt I owed those potential chicks a chance.

So what do you do with eggs coated in rotten egg yolk? Spray them with Clorox Cleanup Bleach, of course.

so after spraying them and letting them sit for about 5 minutes I rinsed them and popped them into the LG. several days later I candled and OMG one had a little blood ring and two were growing babies!!! (the rest were clear so i tossed them with the blood ring egg). Holy cow...many days later out hatched Angelina and Jolie.

I haven't seen our rooster mating them, but it's not like I watch 24/7 ha ha. So we'll see if they grow anything.

OK end of my hijack.