Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

 

[Kev]

Here's a 'chick hatching video' for fun and entertainment. I happened to come in and saw this one zipped and about to pop the top off the shell. Second chick of this weeks hatch and a ....
http://s402.photobucket.com/user/di...3 Naked Necks/1avideo003_zps97060d16.mp4.html
I like these chickens waaay more than is *normal*, I think, maybe a little obsessive ??

awwwwwwwwwwwww sure miss seeing that! obsessive? I was drawing for the word 'chicken' on drawsome and without really thinking about it, it was naked necked too......... even colored the cap black like the body was...

 

[Flowerbh]

I am on vacation in Orlando, FL and I am driving down the street and I see a big sign flashing 37.99 and I am thinking, "That incubator is set really nice" and "Why are they showing incubator numbers" and then I realize that was the price of the hotel rooms we were passing!! hahahah....I guess you know where my mind was!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Me too! When I had the incubators / hatchers in the bedroom, I'd wake up, glance at the clock and jump out of bed --- thinking 'yikes, the temp has gone wrong!'.
Here's another hatched at the window:

And I have some nice big Java x NN crosses just hatched in there too.

 

[pgpoultry]

So many pics. of lovely hatching chicks.
DDD.....just how many have you got in there? What do you do with them all??? Lovely, anyway.
Some of you guys are REALLY tuned into your incubators.......not that I am in any way different whenever I have the incubator fired up. However, I am already in broody season......how I do not know....floods,blizzards, March the coldest on record (temperatures lower than those in January) ....it can only be the lengthening of the daylight hours.
I caught my broody, the one under the demolition site, off the eggs today, and there are 15 under her. She is only a dainty little NN hen, and so will not be able to adequately cover all that lot (which are firmly out of my reach and therefore can't be candled). Clearly she had been 'receiving donations', too, as there are several types of egg under her. The boys are active, though, so fertility is highly likely.
7 lambs on baby bottles, lambing still not over, and a broody way out of reach (with a VERY determined fox in the vicinity, too).
I really don't think that any should hatch....but I will have to wait and see.

 

[flower]

PG so sorry to hear about the blasted weather that you are experiencing. I here in the high country of norther AZ and we had a few snow flakes today but nothing as bad as Wales ! eecchk On the other hand the lambs must warm your heart ! So many babies in your kitchen. Are you going to post some scenery pictures this springtime ?

DDD I turned on the incubator today to practice for my NNs/serama eggies. ha ha Don't expect too much form them but my Silkie rooster is quite aggressive when he can catch the girls. He does take himself too seriously. And I am very casual about icubating as I have so many birds already. But the chicks will have a home if they do finish their 21 days cooking.

 

[draye]

My Naked Necks came in yesterday from Cackle.
In all my years of ordering NN's from hatcheries I've seen my first, 25 pullets ordered and there were only two colors that came in black and a dark reddish (almost chocolate). Ordered 5 cockerals but only 3 made it alive and they were whitish colored some had a few dark markings on them.

 

[Flowerbh]

Got a shot of my 11 week old NN, Buzzie, today. She is one of my smartest chicks. She seems to understand what I want the chicks to do. "Go Play", "Let's go home", etc. She is the first to come to see what I might have as a treat.

 

[ellymayRans]

Got a shot of my 11 week old NN, Buzzie, today. She is one of my smartest chicks. She seems to understand what I want the chicks to do. "Go Play", "Let's go home", etc. She is the first to come to see what I might have as a treat.

So pretty. You should post a full shot, looks like she has nice lacing!

 

[pinkyglory123]