Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

I actually put cayenne pepper in their fermented feed on a regular basis, and apple cider vinegar and probiotics in their water.

good idea to put cayenne pepper in fermented feed, I have never thought of that. but I think you don't need to put acv and probiotics if you give them fermented feed.

I hope your chicken will get well. you can give her baby aspirin, it seems she is in pain.

 

[Pensmaster]

alrighty thanks

Hi bantams3 friend has a few silkie eggs. If you are in the Sacramento Auburn area I can arrange a pickup some how. No shipping unfortunately

 

[Pensmaster]

Here's one of my birds post-processing:

Very nice I've looked up chicks at both Cackle and Ideal. Ideal doesn't seem to have them right now or I'm not looking correctly.

 

[Pensmaster]

LOL! Yes...per week, per bird. Maybe I need to start drinking coffee at night too. 

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh my go to work for a day and am 6 pages behind! Welcome to the newbees to NN.

 

[Phill98]

Oh my go to work for a day and am 6 pages behind!  Welcome to the newbees to NN.

I was actually wondering where are you!

 

[Hholly]

Very nice I've looked up chicks at both Cackle and Ideal. Ideal doesn't seem to have them right now or I'm not looking correctly.

Here they are: http://www.idealpoultry.com/item.html

I just got mine last week so they should still have them in stock.

Oh, sorry, I can't link the specific item. They are listed under Standard Brown Egg Layers. Just follow the link that says Naked Necks.

 

[Kev]

This is one of the NN cockerels I'm planning to keep....Pepper. He's a Buff NN over Australorp mix, and his mother is my best laying hen so I'm planning to keep him as the head of my egg laying group. I LOVE how his coloring and pattern are developing, including his old-man "gray" hair look, LOL. He's also got a fantastic personality...much more mature in demeanor than most of his brothers...friendly but assertive and with a decent crow. (Pitch of their crow matters to me. Some of their crows are just intolerable to listen to.)

I agree he's a Birchen. Don't be afraid to cross him over his mom, linebreeding is used pretty often and can give great results.

 

[Kev]

@Kev

today my bcm pullet escaped to another run where I have a rumpless araucana cockerel. I don't know if they mated. in case they did would I be able to distinguish pure bcm chicks?

this is a cockerel:

If he's pure for pea comb, then all of his chicks will be pea combed out of cross with bcm. Also rumpless is dominant.. those two traits would help with identifying his chicks.

The color would strongly bcm in the chicks, but some will have more color from him. Just ignore the color and check the combs and tails.. you';re good I think..

 

[Kev]

Taking a quick late lunch break, about to head back out for more coop work (how does it always take so much longer than expected?!).

Got weights on the other boys. (Recall that Snape is 7.7lbs.) Apoc is 6.711lbs, and Tank is 6.309lbs. Haven't graphed it yet, but recall that Tank was bigger and heavier than all of them early on... (For what it's worth, at time of his injury, the vet weighed Dumbledore, the 33 week old Cream Legbar cockerel - 5 lbs. He's lost a bit during his recovery of course - he got scrambled eggs for breakfast today!)

Back to work...

- Ant Farm

Oh interesting and thanks for the weights..... I'm wondering if the stock has started to drift towards layer type as 20 yrs ago they were averaging 8 for roosters, 6 for hens. Perhaps they will gain some more as they fill out over this year, though? I never weighed the pullets/cockerels...


btw I am noticing the hatchery NN chicks I picked up from feed store last fall are also looking 'small' (for hatchery stock) to me- another reason I'm wondering about the drift in apparent traits...