Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

I've never eaten any of my birds (pets), but I have a family who comes and buys all my chicks because he says they grow so big. My rooster is a Brahma and he is really huge.

And, Brahmas are the sweetest chickens ever! Beau is the best
rooster! Never even gives us a funny look. My DH picks him up to show the renters (https://www.facebook.com/BearRidgeLodge/ ) here and he can say, "Beau, do you love me?" and this rooster will lay his head on my husbands chest!

gorgeous!

I have a brahma cross roo. he is handsome, cute, my dear pet but totally useless. when a dog attacked one of my hens he took care of his pretty butt only. if my avatar roo had been around I wouldn't have lost my pretty hen. I have 2 brahma hens and I must admit they are sweethearts.

 

[chickengr]

Wow! He is huge and a beauty! I have to confess to coveting the Brahmas, but I'm just afraid they won't be able to handle our intense heat...and afraid that I'd turn them all into pets instead of production birds.

my brahmas cope with heat but they definitely wouldn't be eaten. born to be pets!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Good grief. I came home to find Puppy (my chronically wandering NN pullet) in the Cream Legbar coop. Their paddock is well fenced, so she had to WANT to get in there (she flies well). She was in there with the rooster, Dumbledore, and had a great big deep gash on the back of her neck and a gash on her earlobe. I opened the door and she came out and walked up to me (that's the reason she's called Puppy) - I took her in and tended her wounds (no other injuries) and she's resting in the brooder for now - haven't decided whether to put her back in her coop tonight or not, it's a big gash (Pick no More notwithstanding).

My original assumption was that the rooster tried to mount her, although when I found her there, he was keeping his distance from her and just watching her. But Lissa (CL hen) is now acting a little freaked out and not wanting to use the nest box (keeps trying to find a way to lay in the sand box under the roosts). I got close enough to get a look at her, and she has a small swollen wound on the side of her face near the beak, blood on her comb, and what can only be described as a shiner.

If I have to guess, I now think that Puppy got in, started exploring, pecked Lissa off the nest, and Dumbledore defended Lissa.

Either way... CRAZY CHICKENS!!!!

There went all the chores I THOUGHT I would have plenty of time to do this evening.

- Ant Farm

 

[draye]

Good grief. I came home to find Puppy (my chronically wandering NN pullet) in the Cream Legbar coop. Their paddock is well fenced, so she had to WANT to get in there (she flies well). She was in there with the rooster, Dumbledore, and had a great big deep gash on the back of her neck and a gash on her earlobe. I opened the door and she came out and walked up to me (that's the reason she's called Puppy) - I took her in and tended her wounds (no other injuries) and she's resting in the brooder for now - haven't decided whether to put her back in her coop tonight or not, it's a big gash (Pick no More notwithstanding).

My original assumption was that the rooster tried to mount her, although when I found her there, he was keeping his distance from her and just watching her. But Lissa (CL hen) is now acting a little freaked out and not wanting to use the nest box (keeps trying to find a way to lay in the sand box under the roosts). I got close enough to get a look at her, and she has a small swollen wound on the side of her face near the beak, blood on her comb, and what can only be described as a shiner.

If I have to guess, I now think that Puppy got in, started exploring, pecked Lissa off the nest, and Dumbledore defended Lissa.

Either way... CRAZY CHICKENS!!!!

There went all the chores I THOUGHT I would have plenty of time to do this evening.

- Ant Farm  

I don't have a problem with mine going from pen to pen. Mine is too many wanting to go broody. I had two in the same run. One broke hers fairly easy. The other I thought was trying to quit but no she back at it. Now I have one that is less than a year old trying to set.

I didn't know Welsummers were that broody this early in life. This one is 1/2 Welsummer, 1/4 Naked Neck, 1/8 each of EE and Production Red. Yes, very mixed heritage.

 

[DesertChic]

Good grief. I came home to find Puppy (my chronically wandering NN pullet) in the Cream Legbar coop. Their paddock is well fenced, so she had to WANT to get in there (she flies well). She was in there with the rooster, Dumbledore, and had a great big deep gash on the back of her neck and a gash on her earlobe. I opened the door and she came out and walked up to me (that's the reason she's called Puppy) - I took her in and tended her wounds (no other injuries) and she's resting in the brooder for now - haven't decided whether to put her back in her coop tonight or not, it's a big gash (Pick no More notwithstanding).

My original assumption was that the rooster tried to mount her, although when I found her there, he was keeping his distance from her and just watching her. But Lissa (CL hen) is now acting a little freaked out and not wanting to use the nest box (keeps trying to find a way to lay in the sand box under the roosts). I got close enough to get a look at her, and she has a small swollen wound on the side of her face near the beak, blood on her comb, and what can only be described as a shiner.

If I have to guess, I now think that Puppy got in, started exploring, pecked Lissa off the nest, and Dumbledore defended Lissa.

Either way... CRAZY CHICKENS!!!!

There went all the chores I THOUGHT I would have plenty of time to do this evening.

- Ant Farm

Isn't it amazing how quickly chickens can completely rearrange all of your best made plans? Well, at least none of the injuries were too severe and they'll recover. I wonder what possessed Puppy to explore the CL area? Silly chickens!

I came out of the house the other day to find to of my Dorking-mix females perched atop the frat house, just as happy as can be while the roosters underneath them were going out of their minds trying to tempt the girls to come down. When I walked over to the pen, the girls continued to "converse" with one another, just having a nice chat from 8 feet off the ground...ignoring me completely. They were uninjured, so I just left them there. Eventually the flew back down to feed, but the whole thing just made me shake my head in amusement.

 

[DesertChic]

I don't have a problem with mine going from pen to pen. Mine is too many wanting to go broody. I had two in the same run. One broke hers fairly easy. The other I thought was trying to quit but no she back at it. Now I have one that is less than a year old trying to set.

I didn't know Welsummers were that broody this early in life. This one is 1/2 Welsummer, 1/4 Naked Neck, 1/8 each of EE and Production Red. Yes, very mixed heritage.

I keep fighting the same battle with too many of my hens. And given that our temps have been climbing well over 105, they're not very smart about wanting to hatch eggs. They'd cook on the nest!

 

[chickengr]

Good grief. I came home to find Puppy (my chronically wandering NN pullet) in the Cream Legbar coop. Their paddock is well fenced, so she had to WANT to get in there (she flies well). She was in there with the rooster, Dumbledore, and had a great big deep gash on the back of her neck and a gash on her earlobe. I opened the door and she came out and walked up to me (that's the reason she's called Puppy) - I took her in and tended her wounds (no other injuries) and she's resting in the brooder for now - haven't decided whether to put her back in her coop tonight or not, it's a big gash (Pick no More notwithstanding).

My original assumption was that the rooster tried to mount her, although when I found her there, he was keeping his distance from her and just watching her. But Lissa (CL hen) is now acting a little freaked out and not wanting to use the nest box (keeps trying to find a way to lay in the sand box under the roosts). I got close enough to get a look at her, and she has a small swollen wound on the side of her face near the beak, blood on her comb, and what can only be described as a shiner.

If I have to guess, I now think that Puppy got in, started exploring, pecked Lissa off the nest, and Dumbledore defended Lissa.

Either way... CRAZY CHICKENS!!!!

There went all the chores I THOUGHT I would have plenty of time to do this evening.

- Ant Farm

I have a few hens like that. they even used to go to the muscovie duck's nest to lay. the funny thing is they can climb and jump in but they cannot return to their run. I guess that's why they don't go there any more.

the other day I found my araucana cockerel in the big run. he and my avatar roo were covered in blood when I got up in the morning and found them. I divided a part of the big run and made a new pen for my araucana boy and his little harem and it was their first morning in there. I guess he got crazy when he saw the other girls but didn't realize that there were 3 boys as well. it seems that my brahma mix roo and buff orpington cockerel didn't fight.

 

[chickengr]

I don't have a problem with mine going from pen to pen. Mine is too many wanting to go broody. I had two in the same run. One broke hers fairly easy. The other I thought was trying to quit but no she back at it. Now I have one that is less than a year old trying to set.

I didn't know Welsummers were that broody this early in life. This one is 1/2 Welsummer, 1/4 Naked Neck, 1/8 each of EE and Production Red. Yes, very mixed heritage.

I wish I had broodies. almost all of my chickens have been incubator hatched and it seems they will never get broody. I expected my broody hatched brahma to get broody but she is 12 months old and shows no interest in broodiness.

 

[draye]

I wish I had broodies. almost all of my chickens have been incubator hatched and it seems they will never get broody. I expected my broody hatched brahma to get broody but she is 12 months old and shows no interest in broodiness.

All these were hatched in the incubator. I rarely seen a NN go broody. I've had two in the past a few years ago that tried the broody business and now these 3.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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This is absolutely hysterical! Little teases... I'm going to have this mental image in my head like a cartoon all day - thank you!

My 10 week old boys are behaving themselves (knock on wood), now that they have a frat house nowhere in sight of the girls. I have kept putting off culling the wry tail NN cockerel - I really need to do him tomorrow.

I'm also going to try to start working on getting the NN adults to roost in the actual hen house - they've stopped sleeping on the floor, but now roost really high up on a roost in the run (about 5 feet) and crowded on there, and I worry one may fall (and it's totally exposed to wind/rain). It'll be a pain - I'm rebuilding their roosts to make them "appealing".

- Ant Farm