Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[flower]

We don't need the Keystone XL Pipeline - we have migrating crows!!!!!

- Ant Farm

yup thas a goodun

 

[draye]

We don't need the Keystone XL Pipeline - we have migrating crows!!!!! 



- Ant Farm

Ha ha good one.

 

[shahtir101]

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Naked neck turkens...do any hatcheries sell them?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Naked neck turkens...do any hatcheries sell them?

Yup - I got mine from Ideal, and have been delighted.

- Ant Farm

 

[ShayBaby]

Quote: Did you get a decent color selection? From what I've seen of Ideal NNs, they seem to be mostly red/buff. Just curious because I just ordered a few from there today, due in March. And simultaneously lost my last beauuutiful (silver laced) NN hen today to the cold weather

(I assume.. found her deceased in the coop today, when she was perfectly fine last night).

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Did you get a decent color selection? From what I've seen of Ideal NNs, they seem to be mostly red/buff. Just curious because I just ordered a few from there today, due in March. And simultaneously lost my last beauuutiful (silver laced) NN hen today to the cold weather (I assume.. found her deceased in the coop today, when she was perfectly fine last night).

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. Yes, I got what I would consider a "decent" variety. Of the original 13 I grew out, predictably, quite a few red/buff, but also one pretty solid black pullet, black with red highlights, a beautiful partridge young lady named Mystique, and a few boys and girls with mostly black but red or mahogany highlights/overlay. The red/buffs were also a bit varied in appearance as well (black feather accents, lighter or deeper red in the boys, etc.) No white except as some wing feathers on some of the dark ones. (Sorry, my chicken color vocabulary is not so great a the moment.) Lots of different leg colors - white, yellow, yellow with black overlay, and slate/blue. You will get both NN and Nn - and I actually got one fully feathered chick (though it died). Some were smaller, but I also got some nice big ones. (And made my cull decisions on the cockerels based in part on that.) Definitely a mixed bag, which I liked. Here are some photos of the 9 remaining after cockerel cull (culled cockerels also a mix of darks and reds). They are 15 weeks in these photos. I would totally get NNs from Ideal again.

Severus Snape - very large, dominant cockerel. Very intense. Actually has a rose comb! Tank is behind him - also big blocky boy (he's red):


Apoc - who started out yellow downed - Kev says he is wheaten with mahogany. He's a pretty mix of black, deep mahogany, and orange. Switch is the pullet behind him - mostly black, with some subtle brown feather edging and reddish "hair":


Trinity, the largest pullet, also the only dark one who has persisted as true solid black into adulthood (no red/brown anywhere):


Sweetie (buff/red - my precious girl who lives up to her name):


Puppy - buff pullet, but with more black in her feathers:


Mystique, also one of the largest girls, started black downed, has grown up to have this lovely partridge pattern and mahogany "hair" like her namesake:

Another one of Sweetie being a sweetie - just because:


- Ant Farm

 

[chickengr]

it seems crows moved to the cities. ours are huge as well. I live on an island about 30 minutes from athens. I have just realized that I haven't seen any crows here, lol. they make nests in tall trees in athens and we actually have no tall trees here, maybe that is the reason we don't have them. but we do have magpies. they are such a pain. they will steel anything from food to any shiny metallic object. while my chicks were hatching about 15-20 of them gathered on the tree next to my property. that is how I suspected that chicks started to hatch. I don't understand how they figured it out.

 

[Phill98]

@Fire Ant Farm, Mystique is so ugly I don't know why do you still have her. You should buy her an airplane ticket and send her as far as you can, maybe to, I don't know, Croatia?!?

She is really beautiful, and I don't know why I love dark partridges so much. And she also has black legs and gypsy face. That couldn't be better.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Fire Ant Farm , Mystique is so ugly I don't know why do you still have her. You should buy her an airplane ticket and send her as far as you can, maybe to, I don't know, Croatia?!?

She is really beautiful, and I don't know why I love dark partridges so much. And she also has black legs and gypsy face. That couldn't be better.

Yeah, she's very pretty. I love how her "muff" is sort of different colored than her body, and her "hair" is different from both - she looks like a well dressed lady going to the opera! And she's big, too.

What she is NOT is sociable. She is not aggressive (to me or other chickens) or misbehaved or anything, she just doesn't like me much - it probably wouldn't be so obvious if the other pullets didn't adore me and come running when I am near and tug on my pants, stand on my shoes, and climb on my arms and lap and shoulders.

She'd make a good pair with Snape - an aloof couple.

- Ant Farm

 

[Phill98]

Yeah, she's very pretty. I love how her "muff" is sort of different colored than her body, and her "hair" is different from both - she looks like a well dressed lady going to the opera! And she's big, too. 

What she is NOT is sociable. She is not aggressive (to me or other chickens) or misbehaved or anything, she just doesn't like me much - it probably wouldn't be so obvious if the other pullets didn't adore me and come running when I am near and tug on my pants, stand on my shoes, and climb on my arms and lap and shoulders. 

She'd make a good pair with Snape - an aloof couple.

- Ant Farm 

That's a minus, but I don't like when chickens are too close to me. I mean, I like when they are not crazy and wild, but I don't like them sitting on me.