Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Polish x NN cross

Is this one's name Groucho? What a cutie!

 

[homeschoolchick]

Keep em laying!!!

I will contact you tomorrow??

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

DDD really like the polish X naked neck pics.Always like to see your pics of your birds. I filled my incubator today with naked neck X polish,naked neck X blue cuckoo olive egger,and a few eggs from my black naked neck hen hopefully they were fertilized by my white polish.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Day 21 for this weeks hatch started at 8: am this morning. Woke up to see these right at the hatcher window (and I did NOT do a good job cleaning window):

Unfortunately, hatcher humidity dropped overnight to 52%. Got it back up quick and hope it didn't dink up the rest of this bunch.

Oooo, those sound nice, GeorgiaBoy! Good luck!
I moved a blue barred NN green-egger guy in with 2 blue barred green-egger hens. Only half the chicks will be NN, but they'll be nice big birds.

 

[homeschoolchick]

DDD Hope everyone hatches out beautifully!!!! I find the NNs to look scary when they first hatch out, but turn into beautiful creatures when they fluff ( the ugly duckling )

I sent you a PM

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Got it, that will be do-able if the girls cooperate.
I love my big window hatcher. I can see every egg as it hatches, plus it is RIGHT behind me when I am at the computer. Wet, naked chicks look cool to me.

 

[gootziecat]

Lovely children, Lisa.

 

[NewToFarming]

Day 21 for this weeks hatch started at 8: am this morning. Woke up to see these right at the hatcher window (and I did NOT do a good job cleaning window):

Unfortunately, hatcher humidity dropped overnight to 52%. Got it back up quick and hope it didn't dink up the rest of this bunch.
Oooo, those sound nice, GeorgiaBoy! Good luck!
I moved a blue barred NN green-egger guy in with 2 blue barred green-egger hens. Only half the chicks will be NN, but they'll be nice big birds.

They are adorable! How did the rest of your hatch go?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

So far, so good --- just draggy. Got a few more eggs to go that pipped late. I'll move them all to brooder in the morning.

 

[greenSearcher]

I hate this editor. I lose so many messages because I bump the mouse and it leaves the page. So let me try again.

I have 6 nest pads that have been in continuous use for 3 years now, and will last probably as many years. I put shredded paper in the coops and nest boxes, I shred much of it myself, but I also get it from my DIL and off Freecycle., Some flocksters complain that it sticks to the eggs, but it comes right off. I prefer it to wood chips as it decomposes more quickly, wood shavings can take a good six months, even with the chickens working the compost piles (I rarely have to turn the piles anymore, just rake them back into piles once a week and hose them down. I eventually move the half done compost to one of the 4 bins with a lid to finish, but I let the girls do the hard work first.