Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Phill98]

And as always good news always come with bad ones.

I just screwed two hawks and they were hanging on a tree right by the coop!
Every winter I see one of them but he usually doesn't stay for more than a week or so. But these two came a bit early.
Also, mum told me that she saw a fox running in our property this friday night.

So my poor hen that got killed earlier this month could be killed by both.

 

[Phill98]

Double post

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Thanks! I'll try to catch her and get some iodine on the scabs. I have another girl (different coop that has dry pox right now) that has white foamy stuff in her eye (it was swollen shut earlier because of two pox on her eyelid, but I opened it up and flushed it). I ordered some antibiotic eye ointment, should arrive today, so I'll hold off chasing her down until it arrives...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, I took Tank's old girlfriends to their new home this morning, and introduced him to his new ones, the German New Hampshire pullets. As gentlemanly as he can be, he got a little excited and there was some chasing at first - he managed to mount a couple times, and has calmed down, but he still seems a little lost with the new girls - like he's having to figure it out all over again. He alternates trying to dance for them and just staring into space as if to ask "why me?". I'm going to give them some treats for him to tidbit for them. Might as well help a fella out...

"Mommy, why did you take my girlfriends away? These new girls don't like me..."



- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

Well, I took Tank's old girlfriends to their new home this morning, and introduced him to his new ones, the German New Hampshire pullets. As gentlemanly as he can be, he got a little excited and there was some chasing at first - he managed to mount a couple times, and has calmed down, but he still seems a little lost with the new girls - like he's having to figure it out all over again. He alternates trying to dance for them and just staring into space as if to ask "why me?". I'm going to give them some treats for him to tidbit for them. Might as well help a fella out...

"Mommy, why did you take my girlfriends away? These new girls don't like me..."



- Ant Farm

Awww....poor handsome guy! Don't worry. Those girls won't play hard-to-get for too long.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Well, I just brought treats out (BOSS) and he did what he's never done before - just ate all he could as fast as he could with no tidbitting for the girls. I think he's in a pout...

- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

Well, I just brought treats out (BOSS) and he did what he's never done before - just ate all he could as fast as he could with no tidbitting for the girls. I think he's in a pout...

- Ant Farm

It's gonna take a while. He just hasn't had time to bond with them yet. I wasn't kidding about it taking Heisenberg about 2 weeks to warm up to his new girls, and I've seen the same thing with Pepper, Peta, and Zazzle. They're all now being housed with girls they hadn't bonded with and everyone needed to spend time playing nice. Now...those boys are completely devoted to their girls.

 

[draye]

I don't know that I've ever had any problems with changing around my breeding pens. There's been a time or two a hen has jumped on the rooster, he's put her down then ignored her for a day or two. But I've never seen anything like pouting. Usually he does his duty right off and let's them ladies know who's the boss.

 

[DesertChic]

The hatch is complete and all but one egg hatched perfectly. Here's the lone NN chick from the group, the love child of my two NN/White Rock NN birds.

 

[Kev]

Taking a break from chores, wanted to ask other NN owners - are these bug bites on Sweetie's neck and chest? I was pretty sure they were, but thought I should ask a second opinion. They've been there about a week or so, started by looking like mosquito bites (or maybe ant bites). Now firm, some scabbed (I wonder if they were scratched)... She's acting totally normally and eating well. She's also molting like crazy (as in, cloud of feathers when she shook herself in my lap).





- Ant Farm (there's a REASON that's my handle...)

Edit to add: Dry fowl pox is going around on my property right now. This just didn't look like that to me - but maybe I don't realize what it looks like on skin???

that is fowl pox for sure. I've seen pics of NN known to be hit with fowl pox and they looked just like that. Sometimes there are serious swarms of mosquitoes out here, they are all over the birds faces necks and they never get the bumps like that so I doubt it could be simple case of bug bites. But I have no idea what fire ant bites would look like on a bird..