Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Cynthia12]

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@cactusrota look at the chick in the front in the second pic. It's got blue patches on the wings. That is going to be a pretty bird! I think it's a roo, that comb, but I'm in love!

I let the littles out for the first time a bit this morning, Fugs was in there checking them out. @BlueBaby he is such a good boy.

 

[cactusrota]

Some of the turkens from Dunlap Hatchery. About a month old now.
A few of the cockerels are showing themselves, but not all. Probably won't be another few weeks before I can be sure who is what.

 

[igorsMistress]

Some of the turkens from Dunlap Hatchery. About a month old now.
A few of the cockerels are showing themselves, but not all. Probably won't be another few weeks before I can be sure who is what.

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they're huge! That one in the first pic is pretty.

 

[aliciaplus3]

A few of my necked neck growouts

 

[cactusrota]

A few of my necked neck growouts

So pretty!!! You know this one started out like your third one with the orange head, then just exploded with the other colors later on. Maybe you'll be lucky with her!

 

[cactusrota]

they're huge! That one in the first pic is pretty.

Somebody in a NN fb group I'm in said they had a couple turken hens from Dunlap that got real heavy and died at about a year old he assumes from heart attack from being so heavy.

 

[igorsMistress]

Somebody in a NN fb group I'm in said they had a couple turken hens from Dunlap that got real heavy and died at about a year old he assumes from heart attack from being so heavy.

Hmm, do they cross with other breeds and then breed those for the double gene?

 

[cactusrota]

Hmm, do they cross with other breeds and then breed those for the double gene?

I was told a while back that their Turkens came from S&G (a hatchery that closed down some time back) just like their Red Rangers. Nobody really knows what they are made out of, but my assumption is that S&G took the Red Rangers and added the NN gene. It would really only take maybe 3-4 generations of line breeding the offspring to get a reasonably reliable heavy line I would think. I could do that with Freedom Rangers I'm sure, but this cuts out all those extra steps for me.

 

[igorsMistress]

I was told a while back that their Turkens came from S&G (a hatchery that closed down some time back) just like their Red Rangers. Nobody really knows what they are made out of, but my assumption is that S&G took the Red Rangers and added the NN gene. It would really only take maybe 3-4 generations of line breeding the offspring to get a reasonably reliable heavy line I would think. I could do that with Freedom Rangers I'm sure, but this cuts out all those extra steps for me.

Yes it does, smart way to go. Although I do enjoy all the colors you get in your flocks. Some birds are stunning!

I'm wondering now based on tails whether a few of these chicks I thought might be roos will be pullets and their combs looked big until their heads feathered out.

 

[cactusrota]

I have found that sexing chicks by tails and wings to only be 75-80% accurate with these birds. Even with the pure bred Bresse when I had them. But combine it with other attributes like leg thickness and personality and you can get closer. Some cockerels will get faster growing feathers like their pullet sisters. Usually the pullets will get shoulder feathers first. The boys will retain fuzzy shoulders longer even though their wing feathers are really long. The pic you posted of your newest clean neck boy shows the fuzzy shoulders. But only two times ever have i had chicks i thought were gonna be boys and they turned into pullets... And they have been small ones with strong wild partridge pattern and a nice round breast, as if they had throwback game fowl genetics at play.
At 4 weeks old some of these Dunlap chicks are already getting redder and bigger combs. Interestingly, the only ones left that have the fuzzy shoulders still are the smallest ones.