Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Fibromelanotic = black skin, meat, organs. Silkies are the most common breed in the US that are fibromelanotic.
They can have varying degrees of Fm or can *carry* it and it doesn't show.
I don't understand it completely, but I lovelovelove the way they look : )

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Becky! I forgot to ask how you made it through the snowstorm and if you got water going again. Hope everything was OK.

 

[Flowerbh]

Becky! I forgot to ask how you made it through the snowstorm and if you got water going again. Hope everything was OK.

My DH had to go out in the snow and take extention cords to the spring house and do a lot of fiddling and then had to take a compressor and blow air out of the lines. Finally got water back on. Snow is now mostly melted. Yea! Now all is good to go!

 

[Kassaundra]

Awwe, Becky, they look good! I have the camera charging and will get a pic this evening. There was just enough juice to snap that pic this morning.
That chick looks like it got a dose of Fm.


Closecloseclose, it is sugar cane. I have about 50 starts in buckets in there and more canes rooting to cut (come on spring).

I think this chick looks like a child standing w/ crossed legs saying "I gotta goooo"

 

[Flowerbh]

Yes, she does! hahaha. So, two of my NN eggs turned out to be feathered necked. These two chicks have pea combs and should lay greenish eggs. Because they and not Naked Necked, are they considered EEs even if they came from NN parents? They will not have beards or muffs.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

You can call them anything you like : ) The girls will lay some shade of blue / green egg and the boys carry the 'blue egg gene' --- I call them Green-Eggers. To me, 'easter egger' implies they could lay any color egg.

 

[Flowerbh]

Now to see if any are frizzled!!!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

You'll be able to tell pretty quick --- at 3- or 4-days-old. Look at the new feathers that come in on their wing tips. If those have a slight curl, you have frizzle. *Fingers crossed* you have all frizzle girls : )

 

[flower]

Sugar cane. I did wonder about some kind of grass, then some kind of clumping palm but no leaflet of any sort... Seed started or bury the canes completely..? tried to grow purple sugar cane but the heat and winters were too much for them. Now just stick to winter growing bulbs and some aloes(aloe ferox flowering for the first time this spring, yay)

Growing any plant out here in the SW desert is a big challenge. Even when I move back to AZ at 5K feet I need shade cloth over then entire garden. Most plants fry up in constant sun. Only two areas where there is some afternoon shade. I need to get back there and start watering my trees. I see no eveidence that the tenants watered anything.

 

[flower]

You can call them anything you like : ) The girls will lay some shade of blue / green egg and the boys carry the 'blue egg gene' --- I call them Green-Eggers. To me, 'easter egger' implies they could lay any color egg

That is exactly what I was thinking. You can call them whatever you want !