Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Question - has anyone ever used an electric fence for naked necks? I have one currently set up for my cream leg bars' paddock and the fence info says that poultry are insulated by their feathers (and only get shocked if their comb touches the fence). So I'm thinking that a naked neck is more likely to get a shock. Was thinking of using something non-electric for the NN paddock and just being more vigilant (biggest risk is aerial predators anyway), but thought I'd ask...

- Ant Farm

Go ahead, treat them as if you would any other chicken. It is better for them to occasionally get shocked(they should learn anyways) than losing the whole flock to a predator..... like how I lost all of my muscovies and geese to a bobcat in one night.

 

[Kev]

LMAO! I thought I was the only one who used the force while driving! My husband and son laugh at me when I gesture with my hand to "push" another car out of my way.

Haha! One time at a red light, my BIL was distracted by movement in car next to him.. he looked over and the guy was snapping his fingers with his arm doing sweeping movements towards the stoplight.... He was all tense and soserious.... it's become a little family joke to sometimes suddenly start doing either that or some totally random thing while waiting at a red light... if (by pure coincidence of course) the light turns green at the usage of The Force, we have a little hollering party about how it worked!

 

[Kev]

By today's count....69 to 71. I'm having a hard time remembering them all right now. Of those, 26 are the chicks and the rest are either already laying age, or just reaching laying age. It only seems overwhelming when I actually think about the number.

When I told my husband (three years ago) that I'd like to get some chickens he surprised me by buying me a small coop that would comfortably hold about 4 birds. It sat in our yard for two years while I did research on chickens and chicken keeping, and then debated with him over where the coop should go. (I won that debate. I win all the debates.

) Well, when I had finally decided on the breeds I wanted I left to get "four" chicks from the feed store....and came home with ten instead. Since then the numbers have just kept increasing. So have the projects.

Wonderfully funny and typical Chicken Math!

I admit.... a little part of me chuckled at myself because I used to have 300+ chickens and 100+ peafowl,,, and that's not counting the annual batches of babies. Currently maybe 60ish? about 15 or so being pullets from potential blue/colored eggers.. waiting for them to lay, any non colored egger will be culled.. gotta keep the numbers down. 60 seems like a lot to most people but to me it feels like so few chickens LOL

A lot of the chickens during those times were from mad scientist projects- just to see what happens if you combined this trait with this trait... or making a bird with several traits- rumpless, naked neck and long legged like on modern games etc.

 

[Kassaundra]

IIRC that's one of the main leg feathering genes and is recessive.. but it helps a lot with leg feathering when combined with other leg feather genes.

It is also the same gene that drives show breeders crazy- they actually call it "stubs". It floats around just a little good as you observed..

I don't mind it as long as they don't get feathered legs

 

[DesertChic]

Wonderfully funny and typical Chicken Math!

I admit.... a little part of me chuckled at myself because I used to have 300+ chickens and 100+ peafowl,,, and that's not counting the annual batches of babies. Currently maybe 60ish? about 15 or so being pullets from potential blue/colored eggers.. waiting for them to lay, any non colored egger will be culled.. gotta keep the numbers down. 60 seems like a lot to most people but to me it feels like so few chickens LOL

A lot of the chickens during those times were from mad scientist projects- just to see what happens if you combined this trait with this trait... or making a bird with several traits- rumpless, naked neck and long legged like on modern games etc.

I'm pretty sure 300+ chickens would completely overwhelm me, assuming my husband didn't have me committed upon reaching 100. He's already begun asking me when I plan to cull some of these guys. I told him, "Last weekend, but you wanted to go to the gun show so we went there instead". And since I bought him 2 new guns and 500 rounds of ammo, he really can't complain.

 

[Skink]

I think I might have hatched a bunch of roosters, oh no!! Poor Marshmallow is the only chick with no comb growth. Hamster doesn't have much. The black boys Werewolf and Tugboat though, they have plump combs to match Pork's, and nice red cheeks whenever they get excited. What do ya'll think?

Werewolf

Tugboat

Hamster

Marshmallow

Pork

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I think I might have hatched a bunch of roosters, oh no!! Poor Marshmallow is the only chick with no comb growth. Hamster doesn't have much. The black boys Werewolf and Tugboat though, they have plump combs to match Pork's, and nice red cheeks whenever they get excited. What do ya'll think?

Werewolf

Tugboat

Hamster

Marshmallow

Pork

Marshmallow is the only one that looks like a pullet to me. Hamster looks just like a late developing boy I had, but let's keep our fingers crossed...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Wonderfully funny and typical Chicken Math!

I admit.... a little part of me chuckled at myself because I used to have 300+ chickens and 100+ peafowl,,, and that's not counting the annual batches of babies. Currently maybe 60ish? about 15 or so being pullets from potential blue/colored eggers.. waiting for them to lay, any non colored egger will be culled.. gotta keep the numbers down. 60 seems like a lot to most people but to me it feels like so few chickens LOL

A lot of the chickens during those times were from mad scientist projects- just to see what happens if you combined this trait with this trait... or making a bird with several traits- rumpless, naked neck and long legged like on modern games etc.

OK, so I'm curious, since I'm working on my housing here. How do you manage the housing for the side projects? Many coops? I'd like to try it, but my brain explodes just thinking about it...

- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

I think I might have hatched a bunch of roosters, oh no!! Poor Marshmallow is the only chick with no comb growth. Hamster doesn't have much. The black boys Werewolf and Tugboat though, they have plump combs to match Pork's, and nice red cheeks whenever they get excited. What do ya'll think?

Werewolf

Tugboat

Hamster

Marshmallow

Pork

First, I honestly don't know which is cuter...your chicks, or the names you chose for your chicks.

That said, I think both Hamster and Marshmallow could be pullets. I'm not too sure about Pork. It's harder for me to gauge gender on a bird with no feathers. Cute little bugger though.

 

[chickengr]

Marshmallow is the only one that looks like a pullet to me. Hamster looks just like a late developing boy I had, but let's keep our fingers crossed...

- Ant Farm

I think too young to know. my girls had somewhat bigger combs. I would pay more attention to the colour. if their combs remain pale - girls.