Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[maralpz2006]

shaybaby the first pic white nn he looks sick

 

[Flowerbh]

Ok. My hatch is done. Hatched 7/11 bantam Seramas for my friend and 22/27 of my own eggs. 5 ended up being NN! Some will be frizzled!

Here is an interesting observation about this hatch.

I had decided to do the egg carton hatch. I had two rows of eggs in cut down cartons. Plus 3 on the floor. All the air sacs facing me. so I could see all the pips easily. One row on each side of the bator. One row was closer to the wall of my room and one was on the side of the open room. The eggs in the carton on the back side near the wall all hatched out Thur and Fri. The eggs from the carton on the side of the open room are hatching now (Saturday). Apparently, the back side of the incubator near the wall stayed warmer than the front side and that is the reason for the time difference....even within that small space! Very interesting!

Also, the carton method was great! No rolling around. Eggs all stayed in the right position and zipped perfectly!

 

[ShayBaby]

shaybaby the first pic white nn he looks sick

Yes..he is in recovery, and doing very well, after an illness that nearly killed him. He was a little cold and wet (as he prefers living with ducks rather than his own kind) in the pic, too.

 

[ShayBaby]

Ok.  My hatch is done.  Hatched 7/11 bantam Seramas for my friend and 22/27 of my own eggs.  5 ended up being NN!  Some will be frizzled!

Here is an interesting observation about this hatch.

I had decided to do the egg carton hatch.  I had two rows of eggs in cut down cartons. Plus 3 on the floor.  All the air sacs facing me. so I could see all the pips easily.   One row on each side of the bator.  One row was closer to the wall of my room and one was on the side of the open room.  The eggs in the carton on the back side near the wall all hatched out Thur and Fri.  The eggs from the carton on the side of the open room are hatching now (Saturday).  Apparently, the back side of the incubator near the wall stayed warmer than the front side and that is the reason for the time difference....even within that small space!  Very interesting!

Also, the carton method was great!  No rolling around.   Eggs all stayed in the right position and zipped perfectly!

That is interesting! And also about carton method. I've been afraid to use them so far because I could only imagine being the poor chick trying to bust out through the top lol. I'll give that a shot next time around.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Finally got updated pics of my flock. Terrible quality thanks to a crappy iPod camera but better than nothing.
Winston:

His brother Herman (the black NN chick that was my "fabulous" avatar for a long time) was one of the 7 that died suddenly in the coop mysteriously the other night. Go figure, Herman was the friendliest.

Also lost 2 red/buff NN girls. These are their siblings.
Scarlett (still not sure of Scarlett's gender):

Archibald:

Dat neck

Rusty (Love this guy's color! Pardon the poop board.):

So sorry ShayBaby you have no idea what happened to them? They were so cool looking.

 

[ShayBaby]

Nope. All fine before bed and 4 gone in the morning. 3 the next night. Nothing got in the coop, no blood, healthy, all fed and fat, clean water.. Still looking into it, as I can't afford necropsies, but still have no clue. Strange that 3 of the 7 were NNs. Also a young silkie, Mille fleur D'uccle gal, big White Rock cockerel, and my only serama pullet. Everyone else is still perfectly fine (Well, besides Winston there acted weak that night very suddenly and I thought for sure I'd lose him too, but he pulled through and is almost back to normal now.). Weird.

 

[Kassaundra]

Nope. All fine before bed and 4 gone in the morning. 3 the next night. Nothing got in the coop, no blood, healthy, all fed and fat, clean water.. Still looking into it, as I can't afford necropsies, but still have no clue. Strange that 3 of the 7 were NNs. Also a young silkie, Mille fleur D'uccle gal, big White Rock cockerel, and my only serama pullet. Everyone else is still perfectly fine (Well, besides Winston there acted weak that night very suddenly and I thought for sure I'd lose him too, but he pulled through and is almost back to normal now.). Weird.

I do my own necropsies. I obviously can't do the lab work, but I look things over I can see for clues. The organs can tell you a lot sometimes.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Nope. All fine before bed and 4 gone in the morning. 3 the next night. Nothing got in the coop, no blood, healthy, all fed and fat, clean water.. Still looking into it, as I can't afford necropsies, but still have no clue. Strange that 3 of the 7 were NNs. Also a young silkie, Mille fleur D'uccle gal, big White Rock cockerel, and my only serama pullet. Everyone else is still perfectly fine (Well, besides Winston there acted weak that night very suddenly and I thought for sure I'd lose him too, but he pulled through and is almost back to normal now.). Weird.

That many going at once do you think they may have eaten something? any close neighbors who don't like chickens? I'd hate to think that but you never know, on the goose thread a neighbor shot a members goose.

 

[ShayBaby]

I do my own necropsies.  I obviously can't do the lab work, but I look things over I can see for clues.  The organs can tell you a lot sometimes.

What a good idea! Wish I didn't have a terribly weak stomach.

That many going at once do you think they may have eaten something? any close neighbors who don't like chickens? I'd hate to think that but you never know, on the goose thread a neighbor shot a members goose.

Oh how awful! That poor member, and goose! I considered that possibility but thankfully I'm in the middle of nowhere and my only neighbors within half a mile are elderly family who grew up on this farm and love the chickens. Except one cousin my age, and her DH, next door who can be..testy..but I'm 99% sure even they wouldn't do something so dastardly. It does make sense that the ones that passed must have got into something but I've checked the whole coop and run over and over and can't imagine what it possibly was. Unless I bought a bad bag of feed. Looked ok, and everyone else is perfectly fine, but who knows.

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

Barred rose comb hen, black rose comb non-NN, and a single comb pure black NN hen.