Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

Most of my black NN chicks have big patches of off-white on their front wing joints - it'll be interesting to see how that turns out. I got a few pictures this AM. She's white and light brown to my eye when looking at her, but looking at these photos (which, granted, were taken in low light), there's not a lot of white showing (she does have longest wing feathers that are mostly white with some speckles) - she may be growing out of it. She has always had this little "Billy Idol" hairdo, with her down all spiky, so she's easy to spot in the brooder. Whatever she ends up growing into, I bet it'll be lovely. - Ant Farm

x 2 on buff color. The few buffs that I had at one time I think must have been based on wheaten because I breed to several different roosters and got a lot of salmonish/buffish colored birds no solid or Columbian buff like a lot of NNcome in.

 

[ochochicas]

Quote: I call them Turkens since "Naked Neck" seems to make them sound lower-class to me.

I'm probably crazy.

 

[hellbender]

I call them Turkens since "Naked Neck" seems to make them sound lower-class to me.

I'm probably crazy.

If that makes you crazy then so am I. I have however learned to get with the program and use 'Naked Neck'....even if I do it as following...NN/Turken. covers protocol and soothes my sensibilities.

 

[DesertChic]

Very helpful - looking at them now, I totally see them being fine outside (they will be three weeks old tomorrow). Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the mid 60s this week (not as to as you, but not cold). And since there are a lot of them, they're pretty good at cuddling up into a pile for warmth. I need to get that tractor built, though, so they may have a few additional slightly cramped days in the brooder. I have all the lumber, just need to get some hardware and get it all together. While they're still little, I may put a large dog carrier in there for them to sleep in if they want.

Thanks to meal worm bribery, they have gone from running away when I walk in, to all running toward me (even the New Hampshires). Tomorrow is brooder cleaning and weigh in day (and they get their leg bands swapped out) - I'm sure they will temporarily hate me after that, but I'll be sure to give them a little mealworm feast. What would I do without meal worms?!

Has anyone tried giving chicks crickets in the brooder? I thought it might occupy them...

- Ant Farm

If your brooder is in your house I would suggest you refrain from putting live crickets in there. Sometimes chicks are rather afraid of bugs when they first encounter them, and you'll be left with noisy crickets chirping all night. I tried giving my chicks some small grubs that had magically appeared everywhere on the pavement outside my house after the first spring rain. The chicks were terrified, and huddled together at one end of the brooder staring at the bright green worms. I wound up having to feed them to my more mature birds.

Meal worms are great though...and so much less threatening, LOL.

I can empathize with your building endeavors and time limits. I've been working seemingly non-stop to finish my last two enclosed runs off the side of my chicken cabin/barn. I've come to the conclusion that chicks grow ten times faster when you haven't finished building their home than when you have.

 

[draye]

I call them Turkens since "Naked Neck" seems to make them sound lower-class to me.  

I'm probably crazy.

If that makes you crazy then so am I.  I have however learned to get with the program and use 'Naked Neck'....even if I do it as following...NN/Turken.  covers protocol and soothes my sensibilities.  

Sometimes it makes me crazy too. However Naked Neck makes more spence to me, they have naked necks, some barely but naked.

Turken however is because some say they look like chicken and turkey crossed together. I don't see the turkey look myself.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

If your brooder is in your house I would suggest you refrain from putting live crickets in there. Sometimes chicks are rather afraid of bugs when they first encounter them, and you'll be left with noisy crickets chirping all night. I tried giving my chicks some small grubs that had magically appeared everywhere on the pavement outside my house after the first spring rain. The chicks were terrified, and huddled together at one end of the brooder staring at the bright green worms. I wound up having to feed them to my more mature birds.

Meal worms are great though...and so much less threatening, LOL.

I can empathize with your building endeavors and time limits. I've been working seemingly non-stop to finish my last two enclosed runs off the side of my chicken cabin/barn. I've come to the conclusion that chicks grow ten times faster when you haven't finished building their home than when you have.

Yeah, you have a point there - they're in a "mudroom" not fully in the house, but still.

I'm starting to have nightmares that I'm going to wake up one morning and they will all be standing on my chest and I won't be able to get up

- a sign that it's REALLY time to get them outside. (I got all the hardware today, so soon...) I went to the store today and when I came back, I swear they had visibly grown while I was gone. How is that possible??!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[hellbender]

Yeah, you have a point there - they're in a "mudroom" not fully in the house, but still.

I'm starting to have nightmares that I'm going to wake up one morning and they will all be standing on my chest and I won't be able to get up

- a sign that it's REALLY time to get them outside. (I got all the hardware today, so soon...) I went to the store today and when I came back, I swear they had visibly grown while I was gone. How is that possible??!!!

- Ant Farm

I get a kick out of the dreams of your chicks standing on your chest!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I get a kick out of the dreams of your chicks standing on your chest!

Well, they're BIG! (Especially Tank!)

- Ant Farm

 

[hellbender]

Well, they're BIG! (Especially Tank!)

- Ant Farm

Good thing you don't raise turkeys.

 

[DesertChic]

Yeah, you have a point there - they're in a "mudroom" not fully in the house, but still.

I'm starting to have nightmares that I'm going to wake up one morning and they will all be standing on my chest and I won't be able to get up

- a sign that it's REALLY time to get them outside. (I got all the hardware today, so soon...) I went to the store today and when I came back, I swear they had visibly grown while I was gone. How is that possible??!!!

- Ant Farm

I have literally photographed my chicks in the morning and then again later that same day for this exact reason. I can't say conclusively that they get bigger that quickly, but their feathers do grow in more that quickly. It's really quite astonishing.

I have dreams of my chickens getting tangled up in my hair, which has grown to be over halfway down my back. I think it's because 1) I had a parakeet stuck in my hair as a child, and 2) I have three "teenage" chickens that persist in trying to roost on my head whenever I enter their pen. It was cute when they weighed under a pound, but now that they weigh closer to 4 pounds...not so cute.