Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

Yeah a lot of problems are caused by a boy interrupting another trying to mate with a girl. Just two roosters like this cause a lot more problems than say, 6 roosters that don't actively try to interrupt a mating.

Snape *might* turn out to be one of those roosters with low tolerance for other roosters in general. Some roosters just cannot tolerate any other rooster to the point of it it not being safe to have him confined with another rooster (coop/run), others are variably tolerant(can tolerate another being around, but cannot stand to see any rooster mounting a hen, etc), yet others are just fine with other roosters.

You know, I think Snape's attempt with Trinity (leading to the wound) came after Tank attempting with Trinity and being chased off, now that you mention it. Snape has been putting Tank in his place if Tank gets "ideas", but doesn't attack him outright (yet) - though Tank does have an occasional cut on his neck that is likely from Snape. They are otherwise friendly enough around each other - I'm hopeful that away form the girls, they'll be ok together for a little while. (They're not currently in the sight of the NN pullets now, because of where their new home is). But I'm going to rapidly get together contingency solo housing in case they start fighting - I've gotten a number of very nice very large (long) discarded pallets recently, and can use them like panels in a small enclosure with an attached run - and I have a few different areas I can give them their own "house with a yard" if they have to live solo.

Housing! It always seems to be about housing!!!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Kev]

I've heard of people setting an egg a day out on top of a fence post to feed the crows and attract them, so they will get rid of the hawks.

I used to do that... it does work for the most part. The coopers/sharpshins can be too sneaky if there are a lot of mature trees around, they just fly low and hunt by surprise-attack. However when they do see one, they raise a huge ruckus and try their best to drive it away, especially when they have a nest or fledgings nearby.

Now with my birds not free ranging anymore, I don;'t bother with it anymore.

 

[Kev]

You know, I think Snape's attempt with Trinity (leading to the wound) came after Tank attempting with Trinity and being chased off, now that you mention it. Snape has been putting Tank in his place if Tank gets "ideas", but doesn't attack him outright (yet) - though Tank does have an occasional cut on his neck that is likely from Snape. They are otherwise friendly enough around each other - I'm hopeful that away form the girls, they'll be ok together for a little while. (They're not currently in the sight of the NN pullets now, because of where their new home is). But I'm going to rapidly get together contingency solo housing in case they start fighting - I've gotten a number of very nice very large (long) discarded pallets recently, and can use them like panels in a small enclosure with an attached run - and I have a few different areas I can give them their own "house with a yard" if they have to live solo.

Housing! It always seems to be about housing!!!!!!!

- Ant Farm

Yep housing, housing...

but otoh that issue greatly helps me control chicken math lol...

Hopefully his issue is only with seeing other boys 'try sumthin'.. those can get along very well otherwise.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I used to do that... it does work for the most part. The coopers/sharpshins can be too sneaky if there are a lot of mature trees around, they just fly low and hunt by surprise-attack. However when they do see one, they raise a huge ruckus and try their best to drive it away, especially when they have a nest or fledgings nearby.

Now with my birds not free ranging anymore, I don;'t bother with it anymore.

I should share that my crazy pink tape thing that I did has continued to work extremely well - the hawks ARE around, and hunt overhead. But they don't see the chicken enclosures as anything they can get at. The only downside is that it sags badly when it rains or there's a lot of dew...

- Ant Farm

 

[turtlelady627]

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I just wanted to share pics of my pretty boys!! I'm currently looking for a home for the white one as he is a bit to rough with the ladies.

 

[DesertChic]

Both Snape and Tank. (Not Apoc, lowest on boy pecking order.) It was like suddenly there was an urgency to them. Tank started it (he's a randy fellow anyway), then Snape scolded Tank for trying, then Snape started doing it which has not been common for him yet that I've observed (could have missed it, though) - maybe Snape was being territorial? He does seem to like Trinity a lot. But I should add that I just happened to be sitting there mellowing out watching them - I don't always do that around bed time, so who knows what I've missed that has healed. I didn't get the impression that either were doing anything but clumsily trying to get hold of the girls for some action - it wasn't an attack on the girls, and the girls got away and then were not immediately pursued (e.g., boys got the message - neither tried again with the same pullet). Maybe they were just too heavy handed about it.

- Ant Farm

Just give Snape a little Veritas Serum and force him to tell you the truth about what's going on when you're not watching.

I actually had to cull a young Silkie cockerel for being really, really aggressive with the girls. He wouldn't even try to mate with most of them, but would grab them by their skull caps and drag them all over the yard. And he would fight like mad with any other cockerel that tried to interfere with his caveman antics. All of his female flock mates, most of which were Easter Eggers, wound up with massive gashes. Some boys just never 'get it' when it comes to the girls.

I'm in the same boat as @Kev right now.....my chicken math has made it hard for me to separate my boys and girls in this latest hatch due to space restraints, and it's beginning to get a little tense in their pen. Since I have so many more boys than girls I'll probably just remove the girls and integrate them into some of my other flocks and leave the boys where they are as I work through the cull list.

 

[DesertChic]

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I just wanted to share pics of my pretty boys!! I'm currently looking for a home for the white one as he is a bit to rough with the ladies.

Dang it! I wish we lived closer to one another. I would take that white boy in a heartbeat! Beautiful boys!

 

[Kev]

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I just wanted to share pics of my pretty boys!! I'm currently looking for a home for the white one as he is a bit to rough with the ladies.

Nice birds! White ones are fairly hard to find and there is some demand for those, so he should be able to find a new home....

 

[Kassaundra]

A cold snap is coming for a few days it will be in the teens overnight and 30's in the day highs. The onsies the nakeds were in didn't have any or much wing coverage, so I went and got onsies w/ long sleeves and modified the sleeves to better fit the wings for wing sleeves and so they wouldn't be long enough to drag and get wet. Now they all have fresh new onsies w/ sleeves on under the wool sweaters. Rudy seems to mind the cold more then the others, he was the most chilled under his clothes. I had been cutting the sleeves off and making pants w/ the sleeves, but the wool sweaters seem to cover the outer thighs well enough to forgo the pants. We'll see how it goes.

 

[turtlelady627]

Pics pls