Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Phill98]

Oh logistics, thou art a b***.

I have to get some brooders built before April when I have 50-something chicks and ducklings coming. I'm thinking a 4'x4'x1' and a 4'x8'x2'. Chicks would go in the smaller until 2 weeks old and then the larger until 4-6 weeks.

You can maybe build the bigger one and make some kind of separation that you can remove later. Saving storage, space, time and money.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Like this - this one os 6'x3'x3'. (3' deep so I can reach them all, 6' because that is the size of the table this is on). It worked great - and I was able to use the separator to keep two groups that were a week apart separated until I was ready to join them. (Also keeps the littlest chicks closer to heat and food.water so they don't get lost).



Edit to add: The separator is screen.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I built three more of them (slightly modified the design) - like this. (They all have HW cloth tops.) And I still am worried about enough brooder space. Yeah, I have a problem.

 

[bramblefir]

I have a 12'x12' wash rack in my barn that currently collects junk. It's where I plan on putting the brooders (hence the overall 4'x12' size). I'm OCD enough that having a "gap" along the back wall would irritate me to no end.

Because of the electrical setup at the barn I can only plugin 2, maybe 3, heat sources. So obviously I'd prefer to have fewer brooders. I also want the brooding setup to be large enough to handle 200-300+ chicks a year.

 

[DesertChic]

I built three more of them (slightly modified the design) - like this. (They all have HW cloth tops.) And I still am worried about enough brooder space. Yeah, I have a problem.

I REALLY like these brooders! I've just been using over-sized plastic tubs for my hatchlings for up to the first 2 weeks and was trying to decide on a better setup....and you just solved my problem! Thank you!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I designed them after finally getting fed up with leaning over brooders on the floor. They actually come apart - they are made out of panels, and then they bolt to each other and to the plywood base through holes using carriage bolts, washers and nuts. So I can take them apart to clean and to store flat. I got some iron rods and you can then use one over the top to hang feeders/waterers when the chicks are bigger (at 2 weeks I already have them on a hanging feeder, and looks like I'll need to increase the size by how big they were this morning). I made a modification and screwed an additional furring board along the bottom to reduce the amount of bedding that gets kicked out. It still comes out (they kick high!), but at least there's less.

They sit on a folding table I got at Lowes (6ft long by 30" wide).

Want me to send you my cut list?

- Ant Farm

 

[GabrielBane]

Those brooders look awesome! I also have storage jumbo storage bins, although I had all the moving boxes this time around so I made a mega brooder out of those.

We're considering buying a brooder box from a gentleman a few miles down the road, if he has it when we approach the ad.


Also get ready for incoming picture spam!

 

[Beer can]

The deed has been done now..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................I put exactly 100 eggs in the incubator.

I came across a pic of your bator sometime last yr, looked like you dumped a wheelbarrow load in Lol! :-D

 

[Chknluver]

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One picture is of my rooster Donald Trump and I AKA "Trump" for short. My husband named him lol and the other picture is of my newest edition I'm picking up next Wednesday. She's a real beauty and I hope I get some beautiful Turken chicks from these two. Turkens are one of my favorite breeds. Trump is a rescue because the woman I got him from had lost one of her cinnamon queens and frantically she searched for her as she was her only laying hen at the time. She asked neighbors if they spot her missing hen to just put her back into the yard over the chicken coop fence. So they thought they found her and someone had put Trump over her fence and when she came home not only had a kind neighbor left her a note finding her actual hen but Trump was there too. In Paradise CA Roosters are banned without a permit and you can only keep up to six hens at one time. So she posted Trump on Craigslist, but not knowing what he actually was. She thought he had mange or some type of skin disease and when I told her his breed she knew that I actually knew my chickens and just gave him to me. She said if she couldn't re home him he'd be stew and so I saved his life. Trump is actually one of our sweetest roosters that we have. I really recommend the Turken breed.

 

[GabrielBane]

After this weekends' storms and wind, we finally got to moving our big coops around to some fresh pasture. took all day to muck out and move them (plus wheel barreling everything to a fresh dug hole to start a new compost pile in, blah blah blah....)

We finally got to the NN coop and we decided to get some photo updates on how everyones doing, ask some questions about sexing (because I *thought* I had one boy, but some of these pictures are convincing me otherwise...)

Here's shanks, the reddish chick I guessed cockerel, went back to pullet, and I am possibly seeing cockerel again...





Our definite boy, rumple. He's HUGE. I wish pictures did him justice. I'm going to have to take photos of him next to one of the Sulm boys who're a month older so you guys can see what I'm talking about;


Here's the second buff-toned chick, originally guessed pullet, not so sure anymore... however, this one is a nice size, and I'm absolutely in love with it's coloring. What would you guys call it?









I was guessing a bblack pullet for this one, but the way those feathers are coming in... I'm sensing a boy;





Black chick #2 (un-named) who I'm almost certain is a pullet