Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Phill98]

Kev's "Presious" and a few others were scaleless and fm.  I have had several pretty dark fm and scaleless both my girls right now are repectiblly dark.

Yes, was wondering how great would look the blue. But probably it wouldn't be this vibrant beacuse it would be exposed to the sun all the time.

 

[draye]

Yes-  25%  will get two copies from this.

I thought so but wasn't positive.

This rooster looks like he received 2 copies. He started out with a bit of a job but he's down to three or four. So I think he's a 2copuer.

 

[Kassaundra]

Yes, was wondering how great would look the blue. But probably it wouldn't be this vibrant beacuse it would be exposed to the sun all the time.

The only reason Desertchick's bird looked "blue" skinned was b/c it was dead and bloodless. The don't look blue when alive.

 

[Kassaundra]

The foundlings are spunky and active today.

 

[draye]

Things seemed to be going so wrong yesterday, incubator fans quit working. They went as expensive as I thought so I got another order this morning.

Then the digs turned the egg basket over and broke 6 or 7 of the eggs.

The. It became a little bit better got this:

The first one from my September hatch. 24 weeks and 5 days.

It's nice seeing all the new babies being posted. I haven't posted too many because I'm selling everything I'm hatching so far. This round I the 65 I've only sold six but have a couple of people wanting to pick up this weekend. It's gonna be hard working the timing out because a thing called work is getting in the way. I have to work this weekend and the time is in the middle if the day until late after dark.

Anyway everyone have a wonderful time.

 

[DesertChic]

Yea mottle is recessive.. need a mottle or mottle carrier for mottle chicks.

is it possible to confine/separate all roosters except for the cornish? so they;re the only roosters available to the hens? just an idea... sometimes hens without their favored rooster/not bred any any other roosters for a while will become more 'patient' with clumsy oafs. Might even voluntarily squat for them..

Right now I just don't have the space to confine all of the other roosters. I'll be selling hatching eggs beginning next week, many of them sired by Zazzle. Once all of that is over with, I'll be butchering Zazzle and releasing the hens in his breeding pen. That will give me a little more flexibility to move some birds around. I'm trying to figure out how to give my "fatties" the greatest opportunities for mating before the serious heat sets in...which looks to be coming even sooner than expected. Our 93* forecast for Saturday has now been bumped up to 96*. It's not even May yet!!!!!

 

[cactusrota]

Right now I just don't have the space to confine all of the other roosters. I'll be selling hatching eggs beginning next week, many of them sired by Zazzle. Once all of that is over with, I'll be butchering Zazzle and releasing the hens in his breeding pen. That will give me a little more flexibility to move some birds around. I'm trying to figure out how to give my "fatties" the greatest opportunities for mating before the serious heat sets in...which looks to be coming even sooner than expected. Our 93* forecast for Saturday has now been bumped up to 96*. It's not even May yet!!!!!

We've had a weird early Spring. It's literally May weather in March. Up here where I live we almost always get one last frost the third week of March but our nights have been around 45 degrees. I feel a little nervous about whether to trust this warmth to not come crashing down on me. I've got 3 week old chicks outside in the grow out pen with a 50w bulb that i only turn on at night right now.

 

[Phill98]

The only reason Desertchick's bird looked "blue" skinned was b/c it was dead and bloodless.  The don't look blue when alive.

Oh I thought that they could look blue-ish if some genes were included. Great you explained.

 

[Kev]

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Yeah heat wave happening here too. mid-high 90's but cooling down to 85 right now. Forecast says dropping to high 60's starting this weekend.. not putting away the sweats yet.... lol

I feel you on space issues.. sometimes wish I hadn't taken down a bunch of pens.....

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, guys. Weighing info to share.

First, yesterday I weighed and banded the S&Gs yesterday. HIGHLY variable weights (I'm thinking maybe because of the rocky start they had). They were mostly between 4-5.5 oz, but a couple that were frighteningly small (they look well, if little), and one boy who is exactly as big as the biggest of the TankxGNH group was at the same age. He's also been the friendly one and likes to run up to me in the brooder. His name is 57 (for now).

Here is the table of weights (with Tank as comparison). I was worried that the weight was a mistake (since it was so much more than the others), so I weighed him again today (since he kept coming up to me), and today he's 7.48oz, so it wasn't a mistake. (Also goes to show the importance of weighing on the right day if you're going to make decisions based on small differences between hatch groups...)



Here's the big friendly boy:






It appeals to me to think about keeping a big boy that's NOT related to Tank. (More variety in the genetics of the bigguns.)

Next, I weighed the TankxGNH group today - in their coop for the first time. I think it was on this thread that we were talking about trouble weighing - I got this hanging scale and I LOVE it. It tares, it locks the weight, wasn't expensive. I need a better container though - the bucket had them squirming a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014R09SU6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the data (no photos, but they sorta look the same as before, only a little bigger).

I have started including Snape on these charts, because we are approaching the age where Snape overtook Tank, and I like to keep both comparisons in mind. (It also reminds me that different breeds or mixes may have a different shaped growth curve.) Tank is blue, Snape is green.





They continue to be super sweet - was not hard to get them to weigh. They all wanted to be picked up (though the bucket was another matter).

- Ant Farm