Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[pgpoultry]

Thank you Kev.

As always there are some lovely birds to be seen.

Little Jordan has the same parents as my big Gordon,pictured below. Blackchops is in the back of these pictures.Poor Blackchops has had the worst case of bumble foot which I


have ever managed. 6 months of gouging out 'cheese',hydrogen peroxide irrigation and rolls of Co Band later she is healed. No eggs from her all year, but she's looking good now and has regained her weight and her flock status.

Sharkman,old feathers often lose their depth of colour,whereas the new feathers are brightly coloured. Even my black and white Border Collie goes through a brown and white phase when he is moulting. Having said this,my La Flèche and my black NNs don't seem to lose too much of their feather pigment.

 

[Ray C]

So nice to see naked necks from other countries and lines. I agree these look nice and solid.  Are Hungarian lines known for particular traits?   Heavy, good layers or..?

I'm not sure if it's a general trait in Hungarian lines but the birds I have are very good layers and the cockerels make good meat birds. The young pullet and cockerel hatched on June 22nd. The older hen is an early 2013 hatch.

 

[Nava]

Sorry for not posting in a while

Been real hectic round here

I did could not go to the show cause my better half was sick that weekend and I decided to stay

But I'm aiming to go to the next one.
I'm itching to get the incubator going please some one stop me it's to late in the year

Kass sorry about all your chickens,

 

[pgpoultry]

Sorry to hear of the chicken losses.......

I thought you might like to hear about the scrawny little NN above (Jordan). In Wales we have a particularly horrible damp form of cold that soaks and chills. Currently our daytime temperatures are hovering at just over 40 degrees. I found little Jordan with her head tucked over her back,crop empty and skin feeling like clay. Obviously hypothermic! I touched her and she barely moved.

Here she is recovering next to the stove with a 'hen coat'. Today (having been indoors overnight) she is fully recovered. She is now in the agricultural shed with another 'moulter' who is very short on feathers but a much larger and fatter bird.




Generally i have found NNs to be cold tolerant,but this particular little lady is small,thin and currently without more than a handful of permanent feathers.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sorry to hear of the chicken losses.......

I thought you might like to hear about the scrawny little NN above (Jordan). In Wales we have a particularly horrible damp form of cold that soaks and chills. Currently our daytime temperatures are hovering at just over 40 degrees. I found little Jordan with her head tucked over her back,crop empty and skin feeling like clay. Obviously hypothermic! I touched her and she barely moved.

Here she is recovering next to the stove with a 'hen coat'. Today (having been indoors overnight) she is fully recovered. She is now in the agricultural shed with another 'moulter' who is very short on feathers but a much larger and fatter bird.




Generally i have found NNs to be cold tolerant,but this particular little lady is small,thin and currently without more than a handful of permanent feathers.

I love that hen coat, did you make it? and she looks very warm, hope she recovers completely, Most of mine have finished their molts and some looked very Naked and they aren't even NN, but my NN roo has a lot of skin showing I hope he can keep warm this winter since he has to sleep alone [can't be with the rest of the chickens in their coop because of the other 2 roos]

 

[NewToFarming]

Sorry to hear of the chicken losses.......

I thought you might like to hear about the scrawny little NN above (Jordan). In Wales we have a particularly horrible damp form of cold that soaks and chills. Currently our daytime temperatures are hovering at just over 40 degrees. I found little Jordan with her head tucked over her back,crop empty and skin feeling like clay. Obviously hypothermic! I touched her and she barely moved.

Here she is recovering next to the stove with a 'hen coat'. Today (having been indoors overnight) she is fully recovered. She is now in the agricultural shed with another 'moulter' who is very short on feathers but a much larger and fatter bird.




Generally i have found NNs to be cold tolerant,but this particular little lady is small,thin and currently without more than a handful of permanent feathers.

Such a great idea! I am glad she is doing better!

 

[pgpoultry]

Jordan is modelling a hand knitted version....too big for her,but it did the job! I knitted this one,but they are easily made from any good thermal material or even an old jumper. Miss Lydia.....maybe your roo would benefit from one (or a neck warmer!). They may look a bit eccentric,but I had a jumper from this wool and it was very warm,albeit a bit itchy.

Our temperatures were down to the low 20's overnight,but she is looking well and eating fine. I am feeding her and her colleague a high calorie, high protein diet with some warm food (pasta and porridge).

Hopefully by the time that we have some really severe cold she will have her full complement of feathers and a little more fat. (This little lady was laying up until just a couple of days before the moult).

I'll take another pic of her when she has her feathers back.

 

[flower]

pgpoultry You little hen is lucky to have you ! Who else would make her a pink wooly jump suit and feed her porridge ? You are a STAR but then I feel that living in the cold ocean damp must make you sympathetic to her plight. Right now here in the High Desert there is a week of rain and I have had to crank up the heat to ward off the dampness. My old bones do not like it at all !

 

[Miss Lydia]

Jordan is modelling a hand knitted version....too big for her,but it did the job! I knitted this one,but they are easily made from any good thermal material or even an old jumper. Miss Lydia.....maybe your roo would benefit from one (or a neck warmer!). They may look a bit eccentric,but I had a jumper from this wool and it was very warm,albeit a bit itchy.

Our temperatures were down to the low 20's overnight,but she is looking well and eating fine. I am feeding her and her colleague a high calorie, high protein diet with some warm food (pasta and porridge).

Hopefully by the time that we have some really severe cold she will have her full complement of feathers and a little more fat. (This little lady was laying up until just a couple of days before the moult).

I'll take another pic of her when she has her feathers back.

Very sweet, sure wish I could knit. guess if I make Ed something it will have to be out of an old sock .

 

[Flowerbh]

Here are two of my new hatch. They are 2 weeks old. I had 5 NN's in the hatch. Sold the other 3. I am hoping they are both pullets. Pretty sure the white one is, but the blue frizzle is on the fence. Look at the cute little beard on the white one!