Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Kev and Kassaundra, your naked naked necks are so adorable. I love that you guys have such chicks. So many people still think my NNs are ugly! How could they????? They are one of my favorite breeds!

Haha thanks. Sometimes I wonder um, have some of the 'haters'(feeling so hip right now!) looked in a mirror sometime recently...? Ha.

Starting to get eggs from the first of this year's hatch.

 

[Kev]

Does anybody here know how to prevent chickens from jumping over the fence except clipping wings?
I want to know for older hens and chicks. Is there something to do with small chicks so they won't be able to fly?

If they're jumping on something before jumping over that is hard to deal with if the objects can't be moved.

It is funny but true, many hens don't jump good once they get their egg bellies.

I have found fencing using posts and wire only, no wood or anything going across the top fools many chickens into not trying to jump over. Very few ever learn to jump and land on the other side, most like to fly up onto something then jump down. It is much harder to stop jumping if there;s brick walls, wood fencing etc.

 

[Kev]

Dang, Draye...you're luck with these roosters is awful. I wish you lived closer to me because two of my remaining NN roosters are so human tame as to be downright snuggly. I'll never part with my Heisenberg but I bet you'd get along great with my Shiloh.

Beautiful bird. I don't experience much aggression with NN roos... there have been a few though... and usually they got the axe.

Part of the problem is it has to do with lines also with NN mixed with ?? As far as I can remember, the hatchery stock have been all right.. but some did have the problem of breeding the hens too much or not being very tolerant of other roosters.

It is definitely genetic- jumper roos WILL throw at least some jumpers. If there is something about the line you like or need, raise surplus cockerels and cull the ones that jump.

I like to cull for attitude in my flocks. If a roo jumps, he is killed asap. I do not care for any reasons for his jumping.

Then I like to catch the birds and wave my hand in front of their faces... the ones that bite, especially the ones that bite and hold on with full force or bite repeatedly are also culled asap.

I also cull hens that do tasmanian devils while on the nest.

 

[Kev]

Darth Vader???

 

[hellbender]

 

[draye]

Beautiful bird.   I don't experience much aggression with NN roos... there have been a few though... and usually they got the axe.

Part of the problem is it has to do with lines also with NN mixed with ??   As far as I can remember, the hatchery stock have been all right..  but some did have the problem of breeding the hens too much or not being very tolerant of other roosters.

It is definitely genetic- jumper roos WILL throw at least some jumpers.  If there is something about the line you like or need, raise surplus cockerels and cull the ones that jump.

I like to cull for attitude in my flocks.  If a roo jumps, he is killed asap. I do not care for any reasons for his jumping.

Then I like to catch the birds and wave my hand in front of their faces... the ones that bite, especially the ones that bite and hold on with full force or bite repeatedly are also culled asap.

I also cull hens that do tasmanian devils while on the nest.

I'm tolerating him right now. Today when he saw me he went running every which way trying to avoid me. I'm tolerating because he is carrying mottling which I'm shooting for in my Calico Naked Necks. His mottling is showing on the front elbows of his wings only. So I'm tryjng to spread it out onto the body of his babies.

I have some up and coming Aloha Naked Becks that will help this project along.

 

[Kev]

lol

but nobody messes with MY PRECIOUSSSSSSS

 

[Kev]

I'm tolerating him right now. Today when he saw me he went running every which way trying to avoid me. I'm tolerating because he is carrying mottling which I'm shooting for in my Calico Naked Necks. His mottling is showing on the front elbows of his wings only. So I'm tryjng to spread it out onto the body of his babies.

I have some up and coming Aloha Naked Becks that will help this project along.

Yeah I understand. There have been times I've tolerated a rooster because of his genetics then raised several of his sons and picked the one that did not show any aggression. Repeat the next generation, to avoid the founder effect- a trait that becomes common after a genetic bottleneck.

 

[hellbender]

lol

but nobody messes with MY PRECIOUSSSSSSS

Gotcha'!!

 

[Phill98]

If they're jumping on something before jumping over that is hard to deal with if the objects can't be moved.

It is funny but true, many hens don't jump good once they get their egg bellies.

I have found fencing using posts and wire only, no wood or anything going across the top fools many chickens into not trying to jump over.  Very few ever learn to jump and land on the other side, most like to fly up onto something then jump down.   It is much harder to stop jumping if there;s brick walls, wood fencing etc.

They jump on the coop and then they get out.
I don't know how to prevebt them. How should I clipp their wings? Only few big feathers, am I right.

My chickens are laying every day except in thursday when I get three eggs and saturday when I get two eggs. Other days all five chickens lay. Also I weighted two hens that jump over all the time and they have 6.8 and 6.2 Ibs. How big should they be to not jump over?
And their run is fenced with only post and wire.


Oh, and @Flowerbh I love your rooster!