Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kassaundra]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/7122287/

Looks like she's a screamer. Cute!

Actually it was a big yawn.

 

[draye]

Actually it was a big yawn.

Ha! Guess I've never seen a chicken yawn.

 

[draye]

Thanks Kass. I understand about the eggs. I too am not satisfied with my fertility rate so I haven't been offering eggs either.
Very very tempting.


SCORE CARD: 10/05/2015.
'Possums: 3
Me: 0. We'll see how this goes after tonight setting a second trap.

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Me: 1

Up to date.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Woohoo!!!!!

A cat has been scaring the babies today - it can't get to them, but they all smooshed in a corner of the tractor and freaked out (though they got over it quickly when I went in and shook their feeders). Paula (the head Cream Legbar pullet) was hollering her head off from the big coop, and got the other two CL girls to join in. I heard Dumbledore the CL rooster (in quarantine/man cave) yelling as well, but when I went outside, he was up hiding in his little coop - honestly, though, I think he was trying to get away from the noise of the girls. Boy, they're FIERCE! I could hear it through multiple solid walls, no open windows. I had thought I might want a baby monitor for them - doesn't look like I'll need one since they'll alert the entire county if something messes with them...

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Actually it was a big yawn.

That's what I thought

 

[Kev]

Woohoo!!!!!

A cat has been scaring the babies today - it can't get to them, but they all smooshed in a corner of the tractor and freaked out (though they got over it quickly when I went in and shook their feeders). Paula (the head Cream Legbar pullet) was hollering her head off from the big coop, and got the other two CL girls to join in. I heard Dumbledore the CL rooster (in quarantine/man cave) yelling as well, but when I went outside, he was up hiding in his little coop - honestly, though, I think he was trying to get away from the noise of the girls. Boy, they're FIERCE! I could hear it through multiple solid walls, no open windows. I had thought I might want a baby monitor for them - doesn't look like I'll need one since they'll alert the entire county if something messes with them...

I'd be a little concerned if they're freaking out that bad, would suspect there was something else.. unless that cat was charging and making grabby motions at them?

 

[Kev]

Okay here's a color for you.
Hatched out and looked black but you could see stripes in then like tge yellow chipmunk ones only they have black feathers instead of yellow.

They've still got that coloring bout have gold streaks throughout the down. Not quite but close tuba partridge color. Is this Gold Burchrn?

Hmm... that's a little too vague without pictures?

 

[Kev]

Also have a couple chicks that were hatched blue but are developing the gold mottling (i don't think this is really mottling but don't know how else to call it, maybe flecks), could this be Blue Gold Duckwing?

Like black sex links by the pattern? That sounds like something from a solid black/blue crossed with a different colored chicken.. start out black/blue downed and feathers can start out blue/black but they get the off coloring as they feather out.

 

[Kev]

OMG. I want to thank you, but I think my brains are now scrambled.

I did have a few with down that was pale with a dark stripe down the back (one with a dot on the head as well). Only one seems to have predominantly black and dark brown feathers coming out of yellow/pale down. The one with black down and the copper highlights has developed even more today - there a pretty pattern of brown on black developing - this one may then be the Birchen you are referring to. They are feathering out even more quickly now, so I'm sure I'll have a better sense soon...

- Ant Farm

Solid yellow/cream or cream/yellow with a stripe either on just the head or going down the back also are almost always wheatens.

With no other mutant genes, the boys grow out into black breasted red color, the hens are light tan body with black tails... highly variable is how much detail they get on their backs.

Wheaten is very strongly affected by presence of various genes.. if the columbian gene is present, they are "rapidly" changed into buff or red bodied chickens with black tails. I did notice one of your wheaten downed chicks is turning into a boy with unusual amount of black feathers. Not sure yet what is up with that.. might be a black breasted red or one of those quirky cases.

I would be comfortable with calling the black chicks birchen if they are showing color on their backs and wings... that never happens with the E kind of black.

 

[draye]

Hmm... that's a little too vague without pictures?

I'll try to get pictures tomorrow. May be awhile getting them, I have 35 to go through to find it.

Like black sex links by the pattern?  That sounds like something from a solid black/blue crossed with a different colored chicken..  start out black/blue downed and feathers can start out blue/black but they get the off coloring as they feather out.

The daddy was a Blue Red NN ( or whatever color you want to call him. The hens all came from EE mamas ( so they were 1/2 EE) so very well could have carried the Duckwing patterning gene ( both gold and silver in the flock). There may be another name for the pattern they had but I was told it was a Duckwing pattern. They had that classic gold coloring of a lot if EE's. Also had some that were the color of the silver leghorn with the salmon breasts.