Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Golly - not a lot one can do to prevent that. What a shame - she's a beauty and looks sweet.

One week pics (well less one day)

Very nice!!!

Quote: I remember Rue - she grew up to be a lovely girl!!!

I'm still holding my own with the whole 71 grow out chicks thing, but it sorta feels like I'm hanging on with my fingernails. I never want to raise this many chicks at once again - I only just have the time to take care of their needs (along with the adults), and I am unhappy about not having time to spend with them. I'll get through this, I'll get through this, I'll get through this...

- Ant Farm

 

[draye]

Here's anew picture of the little mottled chick. Now 3 1/2 weeks old.

 

[the loco-cochin]

I just got seven naked neck chicks, some of they're necks are a little ashy, can I put lotion on them? If so what kind

 

[Kassaundra]

I just got seven naked neck chicks, some of they're necks are a little ashy, can I put lotion on them? If so what kind

I have never had to put lotion on any naked neck or even completely naked chicken. But if you felt like you needed to it is just skin any lotion would work.

 

[chickengr]

One week pics (well less one day)

little cuties

Yeah...she was a one-of-a-kind, and was always perfectly healthy. It was a real shock. I performed a rudimentary necropsy and she appeared to be in perfect health...except she was dead. I found one little area of inflammation on her skin that I think was the bite/sting location. It was really small. Spider bite is the only thing I can come up with since the scorpions aren't out yet, it was too small an area for a snake bite, and I don't think Fire Ants prove lethal.

I have one of her eggs in the incubator that I'm really hoping will hatch, and one very sweet pullet that she gave me last year. This is her daughter, Rue:

I recently lost an araucana/ameraucana mix the same way. no clue what happened. nothing toxic in their run. the only possible thing I think might have happened is that she ate a centipede without killing it first.

rue is my favourite! I am waiting for my first 2 black NNs to arrive, hopefully around the end of this month.

 

[chickengr]

Here's anew picture of the little mottled chick. Now 3 1/2 weeks old.

beautiful! will that colour remain?

 

[DesertChic]

I just got seven naked neck chicks, some of they're necks are a little ashy, can I put lotion on them? If so what kind

Some of my NNs occasionally get ashy looking skin too, probably because the climate here is so incredibly dry. A little Vaseline or castor oil works wonders. During the dog days of summer when they're exposed to a lot more sunlight I've even used Desitin, the diaper ointment. The zinc oxide doubles as a sunblock. I sometimes use the Desitin for wounds too. It helps them heal up much more quickly.

 

[DesertChic]

little cuties

I recently lost an araucana/ameraucana mix the same way. no clue what happened. nothing toxic in their run. the only possible thing I think might have happened is that she ate a centipede without killing it first.

rue is my favourite! I am waiting for my first 2 black NNs to arrive, hopefully around the end of this month.

Ooooh....centipedes are nasty suckers! I pulled one measuring over 14 inches long off of one of the pen walls last year, chopped it into multiple pieces and watched the chickens chow down. That sucker scared the snot outta me, but they loved it!

I actually know a guy whose leg was partially eaten by a centipede that had crawled into bed with him. He woke up screaming from the pain. It left a significant divot scar right along his shin bone.

 

[DesertChic]

Golly - not a lot one can do to prevent that. What a shame - she's a beauty and looks sweet.

Very nice!!!

I remember Rue - she grew up to be a lovely girl!!!

I'm still holding my own with the whole 71 grow out chicks thing, but it sorta feels like I'm hanging on with my fingernails. I never want to raise this many chicks at once again - I only just have the time to take care of their needs (along with the adults), and I am unhappy about not having time to spend with them. I'll get through this, I'll get through this, I'll get through this...

- Ant Farm

You'll get through this....and at some point chicken math will kick in again and you'll have even MORE chickens.

 

[Phill98]

Golly - not a lot one can do to prevent that. What a shame - she's a beauty and looks sweet. 

Very nice!!! 

I remember Rue - she grew up to be a lovely girl!!!

I'm still holding my own with the whole 71 grow out chicks thing, but it sorta feels like I'm hanging on with my fingernails. I never want to raise this many chicks at once again - I only just have the time to take care of their needs (along with the adults), and I am unhappy about not having time to spend with them. I'll get through this, I'll get through this, I'll get through this...

- Ant Farm 

Of course you will get through this. Just like everything else with chickens. 'Cause if we didn't love them we wouldn't even try.

After all, they are "just chickens"