Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

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.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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.

SO cute!!!! (Love that last photo!)

Quote: Thanks - yeah, I figured. The bumps are evolving and scabbing up. Mosquitos have been so bad here this year...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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That's reassuring - he was really attached to those SS girls (sort of childhood sweethearts). They seem to be getting along ok now, and the girls and him are sort of sticking together when foraging (they follow him, he follows them) - no more chasing, Tank is a polite boy in the end. I'll need to head back out soon to make sure the girls indeed go to bed in the coop and don't get confused and try to roost on top of the tractor or anything crazy like that...



- Ant Farm

 

[GabrielBane]

Eeee, just got confirmation from the breeder that all 12 of our NNs (plus possibly some extra fluffies) are developing and still on schedule for Wednesday....

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, glad I went to check on the new arrangements.

Tank was on the roost either pecking at them as they tried to come up there with him (perhaps he still thought they were intruders) or trying to mount - I couldn't quite tell. I had to block off the automatic door so the girls couldn't run back out and sleep outside (had to catch one in the briars/stickers - with me in shorts), then I grabbed Tank and held him to keep him calm for a while. He's a sweet boy who is familiar with being held from his earlier days, and does not attack me, but he was not happy about being restrained and kicked his feet (and me in a tank top). Soooooo, I now have two deep icky gashes on my chest that would be embarrassing to explain to anyone.

Nonetheless, I held and rocked him until the girls settled down to roost and it was dark enough for the automatic door to close. Then I put him on the other end of the roost and watched them (and kept saying "be good, Tank" over and over). He was so funny - you could tell he wondered where his bedtime buddies were that he cuddled with, and then he VEEEEEERY slowly sidled up to the nearest GNH girl and leaned his neck over her and roosted there. I hope they work this out - I don't want to have to babysit at bedtime every night. (I certainly will be clipping his nails and wearing a thicker shirt, though!)

- Ant Farm

(pardon the cross post for Pensmaster and anyone else on the Educating hatch chat thread...)

 

[chickengr]

Well, glad I went to check on the new arrangements.

Tank was on the roost either pecking at them as they tried to come up there with him (perhaps he still thought they were intruders) or trying to mount - I couldn't quite tell. I had to block off the automatic door so the girls couldn't run back out and sleep outside (had to catch one in the briars/stickers - with me in shorts), then I grabbed Tank and held him to keep him calm for a while. He's a sweet boy who is familiar with being held from his earlier days, and does not attack me, but he was not happy about being restrained and kicked his feet (and me in a tank top). Soooooo, I now have two deep icky gashes on my chest that would be embarrassing to explain to anyone.

Nonetheless, I held and rocked him until the girls settled down to roost and it was dark enough for the automatic door to close. Then I put him on the other end of the roost and watched them (and kept saying "be good, Tank" over and over). He was so funny - you could tell he wondered where his bedtime buddies were that he cuddled with, and then he VEEEEEERY slowly sidled up to the nearest GNH girl and leaned his neck over her and roosted there. I hope they work this out - I don't want to have to babysit at bedtime every night. (I certainly will be clipping his nails and wearing a thicker shirt, though!)

- Ant Farm

(pardon the cross post for Pensmaster and anyone else on the Educating hatch chat thread...)

the roos like to be introduced to the new girls, not hens to the roos. if you can keep him a day or two somowhere else and reintroduce him the the girls he will behave himself.

I put some pullets months ago to my big coop and the roos have never accepted them. as they are for laying only I don't care.

 

[Phill98]

@DesertChic what is the color of this cute chick's legs?

 

[DesertChic]

@DesertChic what is the color of this cute chick's legs?

Right now the top of the shanks are pink (white) and the toes are gray with pink toenails. Daddy has white/pink shanks with splotches of gray on them...really unique...and mom has gray shanks and toes.

 

[Phill98]

Right now the top of the shanks are pink (white) and the toes are gray with pink toenails. Daddy has white/pink shanks with splotches of gray on them...really unique...and mom has gray shanks and toes. 

It looks really good and great you explained what it came from.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Alas, I don't really have the housing for that, but he accepts them, they just aren't interested enough in HIM yet. They got along fine all day today, but at night, when they came up to roost, he sort of starts to crowd them - didn't peck, but like he was hoping to mount (though it would have been impossible). I honestly couldn't tell if it was that or if he was just looking for cuddling (sounds silly, but he and his previous girls all roosted very snuggly together, two on either side of him).

So I held him in my lap at bed time again tonight. Spent some time observing, and I think the additional issue is, of course, the girls are trying to adjust to the new coop, as well as there being so many fewer (they were in a group of 13 before). While holding him, I observed some pecking order type stuff going on between the three of them. Once they worked their sleeping arrangements out (one was on the sand not the roost - I think she normally slept like that in the other coop as well), and it was dark enough for Tank to have calmed down, I put him on the roost. He still didn't seem to know what to do with himself or where to sit, but just wanted to be near someone. In the end he snuggled up to the one on the sand.




I'm sure they'll work the bedtime stuff out (and they are fine the rest of the day) - but it looks like Tank will be getting bedtime stories and cuddles for a little while.

- Ant Farm