Traded 5 geese and 7 ducks for these two.... LOL Billy thinks they are pretty.
Billy's new Chickens
He has named them Billy (The Buff color) and Nanny (the black and white)
Yep they are turkins...
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Ooops forgot picture
Oh geez. Glad you and Billy like them. They give me the willies looking like they were plucked to pieces. Sorry I guess everyone has different tastes those are not what I would consider pretty. But you like them and thats what counts.
Looking at the pics makes my neck cold, it makes me want to knit little scarves for them....LOL!!
Loreen my thoughts exactly - except I can't knit.
You can tell when their crops are full huh?
Loreen I know what you mean, but they say they are cold hardy, Tomorrow they are getting a special chicken house....
rita, Billy loves all his animals, I personally think they are ugly, but to him well he likes them, I think he will always champion the under dog... Aww heck what am I saying, I once bought an ugly stuffed animal cause I did not what them to destroy it cause no one bought it... and that was just stuffed..
Pork they sure are strange, will take some getting use to... and Green, I am thinking so... LOL I will have to watch this evening with I give them some cottage cheese... That will be cool... Billy can learn anatomy of a chicken.
ROFL!!!!!!!!! Glad it made Billy happy
Tell Billy Bob I think they are pretty and I also love the names. Billy Bob is just one cool DUDE:
OH Yeah: I have a new Rooster (serama) he is brown, white, black, and green. I have named him Billy Bob Jr. He is one incredible and beautiful rooster...I hope to get some pic's of him and my pheasant tomorrow, I also will be entering him in next year's fair along with several of my hens...Hay
Do turkens come in all colors?
I know they breed turkens with silkies and get "show girls". They are funny.
Congrats on the new chickens. They are very nice.
Cool Haystack, I will tell Billy tomorrow he is sleeping, we built a coop and a nesting home this weekend and he helped with both, it tuckered him out today we built the coop and it took all day.
I dont know Light, I am learning about the,.. Show girls?? LOLOL
Boy, I sure hope they are good layers and have good personalities! I hope Billy and you have many happy years with them. Personally, I like the "fluffy" breeds, but--when my boys were young--I would have traded every last chicken I might have owned for some Turkens if that is what they really liked. Still, every time I see a photo of one of them I tink they must have gotten lucky and escaped a coyote attach somehow.
Is there some particularly useful reason why this breed has no neck feathers?
From this site: http://www.purelypoultry.com/turken-chickens-p-350.html
The Transylvania Naked Neck Chicken is often called Turken Chickens. Some people think it is a cross between a chicken and a turkey because of the unfeathered area on the neck. This skin turns red when exposed to the sun, further paralleling the turkey. However, the Turken Chickens are actually the result of a single gene that affects the arrangement of feather-growing tracts over the chicken's body. It can be easily introduced into any breed. Turkens have no feathers on a broad band between the shoulders and the base of the skull. They also have a reduced number of feathers on their bodies but this is not evident until the bird is handled. This characteristic is a novel feature that does not detract from the utility of the bird.
Ahhh! Thank you very much, LfJ!
Cool link, I see that the APA does indeed recognize them so I guess Billy can show them next year at the fair...
On yahoo groups I joined showgirl_chickens just so I could look at their pictures. They are really CUTE! The little baby showgirls are really something. There are showgirl roosters too.
I think you can see the first picture without joining.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/showgirl_chickens/
The black neck of the silkie somehow looks better than the pink/red of other breeds.
As difficult as it is to find really pretty silkies, I can imagine the difficulty in getting a Showgirl to look that way.
I'm thinking they started out breeding a turken with a show quality silkie. Apparently the N gene (naked neck) is dominant, but seems like the first generation would come out with feathers of the original turken, or silkie, or combination. Then they would take the best birds and breed them?
I'm just guessing, but it sounds like it was a tedious long term experiment to get them to look this way.
I agree about the black skin, though hadn't realize it before you said that Porkpal.