Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

I'll have to get some updated pictures of Wookie and BAM later. They're now in the main coop with the adults, although still under a heat lamp. I like to move them out of the brooder around 3-4 weeks.

I've been paring down my projects and my flock as a whole in preparation to take on restoring and promoting an old breed (leaning very heavily to either Andalusians, Hamburgs, or WF Black Spanish). However, for our culinary enjoyment next year I will be putting the NN pullets with "Indy":



He's a Blue Jubilee English Orp. Behind him is my daughter's Blue Cuckoo English Orp. We're looking forward to lots of barbecued chicken next summer!

I can't wait to see what you get with that cross!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Kev]

I can't wait to see what you get with that cross!!!

- Ant Farm

x2!

 

[Kev]

Last night I ended up in hospital with my grandmother- she's ok now, btw, but one of the hens last night was left outside- freeranging. I didn't know that- and wasn't even thinking about chickens at the point, dad closed them. All that's left of her are few feathers and blood drops.

Could very- and I mean very hungry cats kill her?

Glad your grandmother is okay.

Some cats do kill chickens, they are much more the exception though. I have a hard time imaging a cat could drag off a big chicken and hide it so well?

 

[Kev]

Egg One is my pure NN x with Bielefelder/Australorp hen.
Daddy = Heisenberg


Mommy = Ivy


Egg Two - Pure NN x Dorking-mix...just for the sake of curiosity.
Daddy = Zazzle


Mommy = Bubbles, the one front in this photo.


Egg Three - Hybrid cross. I'm uncertain about daddy, as he could either be my NN/White Rock cockerel, or my Ameraucana/White Rock cross...or my EE/mystery bird cross. Mom is my NN/White Rock hen, my meat breeder, Willa.

Mom:




Dad could be any of these three:
Simon - NN/WR


Monty - Ameraucana/WR


Harley - EE mix

Nice assortment and thanks for showing!

Egg one is sex linked cross- white spot on top of head= cockerel.

Egg two is also sex linked but based on Silver- Bubbles is silver.. cockerels could be either really light downed/whitish, but you know once the feathers come in- if they show a b/w pattern, it'sa cockerel. if the cockerel also got barring from the father, he probably will be extremely light colored at hatch and may possibly feather out in the Delaware pattern or close to it or something similar to a barred silver duckwing(chances of this pattern is kind of low from this pair) Pullets should be reddish/darker shade of buff downed and feather out buff/black. Cant use barring to sex as both sexes can be barred in this cross.

Egg three, well just wait and see! lol should be relatively easy to figure most of the time. crest or extra toe, Harley (is he fibro?), walnut comb or blue, Monty.. regular NN looking- Simon. No way to sex chicks from this at hatch.

 

[Kassaundra]

Last night I ended up in hospital with my grandmother- she's ok now, btw, but one of the hens last night was left outside- freeranging. I didn't know that- and wasn't even thinking about chickens at the point, dad closed them. All that's left of her are few feathers and blood drops.

Could very- and I mean very hungry cats kill her?

Glad your Gma is doing better. Sorry about your hen, a domestic cat would be very very unlikely to kill and eat completely or remove completely the whole adult hen. Do you have bobcats or the equivalent?

 

[Kev]

Glad your Gma is doing better. Sorry about your hen, a domestic cat would be very very unlikely to kill and eat completely or remove completely the whole adult hen. Do you have bobcats or the equivalent?

I was wondering that too. A bobcat wiped out my whole flock of muscovy ducks and geese. Not a single drop of blood anywhere and there was only a couple of feathers stuck together which was the only odd thing.... it was as if the birds disappeared completely. Found some carcasses by smell a few days later.. the bobcat covered them extremely well. (dog flushed and treed the bobcat, that's how I knew what it was)

 

[Phill98]

Thanks everyone, grandma is even better today!

Here we don't have bobcats, the biggest predator that we have here are foxes, but I just think they didn't do it.

The reason why I thought it was cats is because we have 3 cats that were bor on my neighbour's property where nobody lives and they are completely wild. Nobody ever feeds them, they are always hungry and people could never come near them. And the hen that is killed is actually very small- almost bantam sized.

On the other hand- as much as small she was, I don't think they could drag her anywhere.

Oh and the predator is very clean. I found exactly six feathers and a very small spot of blood.

This is my first predator problem in six years.

 

[Kassaundra]

Fox is more then capable

 

[Phill98]

Fox is more then capable

I'm actually glad to hear that it was fox, since they can't get to chickens anyhow, at least at night.

 

[gimmie birdies]

14 grocery store eggs in incubator

Waiting, 5 under ma hen that are possible clears. These 14 are all developing, one may be clear, but I am giving it a chance...The arrow is pointing at a shotglass of water, with a penny dated before 1982. I refill as it empties until lockdown...This is all I use till then.