Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

I have many dun birds in my flock,both naked neck and non naked neck. I love the coffee illustration,describes dun perfectly.

Could you post a picture or two of the fun on your NN's?

 

[DesertChic]

I don't know @Kev . I still can't tell if it's safe to name this one Sylvester.




This is the sweetest, most mild-tempered and calmest chick in the hatch:




And this one has the yellowest legs I've ever seen on a chick, though the photo doesn't show it. (I used a baby blue background and it totally messed with the camera colorizing.)

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I don't know @Kev . I still can't tell if it's safe to name this one Sylvester.




This is the sweetest, most mild-tempered and calmest chick in the hatch:




And this one has the yellowest legs I've ever seen on a chick, though the photo doesn't show it. (I used a baby blue background and it totally messed with the camera colorizing.)

Golly, I'm no expert, but those legs say Sylvester to me...

 

[chickengr]

I don't know @Kev . I still can't tell if it's safe to name this one Sylvester.

I would wait. my Jumbo had legs like that. she has been named Jumbo because I didn't want to change the name. for the first 8 weeks I thought she had been a boy.

 

[DesertChic]

It was a massive migraine headache sort of day so I got to spend more time than usual staring down at the chicks. I am now 95% confident that Sylvester is a cockerel. Not only has his comb grown significantly in the past couple days, but he is a big-time chest bumper with another chick I know is a male. So....definitely "Sylvester". (And I think I even have a "Tweety" in the group too.)

 

[Kev]

It was a massive migraine headache sort of day so I got to spend more time than usual staring down at the chicks. I am now 95% confident that Sylvester is a cockerel. Not only has his comb grown significantly in the past couple days, but he is a big-time chest bumper with another chick I know is a male. So....definitely "Sylvester". (And I think I even have a "Tweety" in the group too.)

That's a pretty dark chick for a barred. Usually the barring is quite prominent on the wings by now.. but those legs are very dark also. Interesting it should have such a large head spot combined with rest of it being so "dark". Probably has only one copy of barring despite the huge head spot.

If it turns out to be a boy with 'weak' barring then it definitely has only one copy.

Barring is one of those genes with a visual difference between one or two copies, like Nn vs NN, dun vs khaki etc

p.s condolences on a migraine day.

 

[Kev]

I ordered a copy of that big chicken genetics book (Hutt, I think?) - the first time I ordered it, it got stolen off of my porch after being delivered, along with a copy of The Call of the Hen. I got replacements from Amazon without much fuss (thank you Amazon Prime). But I got a huge kick thinking about the thief who got himself/herself a copy of this giant book on chicken genetics.

Oh man that sucks.. packages being stolen from doors have been on the news a lot lately, lots of security camera clips. The other sad thing is so many of the thieves look "normal", just like the ones you pass by at the grocery store, etc.. Stuff a box full of dubias and leave it on the porch....

How do you like those books?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

It was a massive migraine headache sort of day so I got to spend more time than usual staring down at the chicks. I am now 95% confident that Sylvester is a cockerel. Not only has his comb grown significantly in the past couple days, but he is a big-time chest bumper with another chick I know is a male. So....definitely "Sylvester". (And I think I even have a "Tweety" in the group too.)

Sorry about the migraine. It must be going around - I had two while visiting my family for the holidays. Migraines are terrible, but they are compounded when one is sleeping on the sofa in the tv room.

Quote: LOVE the dubia idea. Or maybe chicken poop...

Embarrassed to say that I haven't had a chance to really study them yet - life got kind of crazy.

Oh, and it's looking like lavender anything is out the window now. I was on the way home from the airport when my chicken sitter texted me saying that Goodwin and two pullets were missing at the bed time headcount. I went tramping all over with a flashlight until well after dark - Goodwin is missing presumed dead - lots of feathers trailed through the yard (though no blood, no body), also a CL pullet and BCM pullet missing, though no feathers from them - I am hopeful they are safe and went into hiding while he was defending them. I won't know any more until tomorrow morning. I'm thinking fox.

They could only have been out there by flying out of their paddock. I would claim Darwin award, except I believe Goodwin may have been defending the silly pullets.

Sigh.

- Ant Farm

 

[Kev]

LOVE the dubia idea. Or maybe chicken poop...

Embarrassed to say that I haven't had a chance to really study them yet - life got kind of crazy.

Oh, and it's looking like lavender anything is out the window now. I was on the way home from the airport when my chicken sitter texted me saying that Goodwin and two pullets were missing at the bed time headcount. I went tramping all over with a flashlight until well after dark - Goodwin is missing presumed dead - lots of feathers trailed through the yard (though no blood, no body), also a CL pullet and BCM pullet missing, though no feathers from them - I am hopeful they are safe and went into hiding while he was defending them. I won't know any more until tomorrow morning. I'm thinking fox.

They could only have been out there by flying out of their paddock. I would claim Darwin award, except I believe Goodwin may have been defending the silly pullets.

Sigh.

- Ant Farm

Oh nooooo...

for their safe returns...

No worries on not reading the books yet. I know all too well about this thing called "life".. and I don't even have those books, haha..

 

[Kassaundra]

Sorry about the migraine. It must be going around - I had two while visiting my family for the holidays. Migraines are terrible, but they are compounded when one is sleeping on the sofa in the tv room.

LOVE the dubia idea. Or maybe chicken poop...

Embarrassed to say that I haven't had a chance to really study them yet - life got kind of crazy.

Oh, and it's looking like lavender anything is out the window now. I was on the way home from the airport when my chicken sitter texted me saying that Goodwin and two pullets were missing at the bed time headcount. I went tramping all over with a flashlight until well after dark - Goodwin is missing presumed dead - lots of feathers trailed through the yard (though no blood, no body), also a CL pullet and BCM pullet missing, though no feathers from them - I am hopeful they are safe and went into hiding while he was defending them. I won't know any more until tomorrow morning. I'm thinking fox.

They could only have been out there by flying out of their paddock. I would claim Darwin award, except I believe Goodwin may have been defending the silly pullets.

Sigh.

- Ant Farm

Sorry about the loss.

Goodwin is a female to Whovians.