Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I would totally agree, except then I'd have to move.

 

[DesertChic]

Well, I'm bushed. I couldn't sleep well (my sleep cycle is all out of whack), didn't get to sleep until 4-5AM, and then I had to get up multiple times early this AM because I have yet MORE pullets trying to win a Darwin award. I was out there after chasing Puppy down, and WATCHED her crane her neck up, pacing, like she was a mountain climber gauging the route. Then right in front of me she SCALED a slightly sagging bit of the 5 ft fence with her feet flapping her wings for balance.

I fixed the sag, but really, what am I supposed to do about that?! It's not like she's flying out, so clipping her wings will just impair her if she tangles with a predator. At this point I just hope she starts laying again soon, so I can get some of her babies.

You know, she did this from the age of about 1-2 weeks old, and was always trying to get out of the brooder, multiple escapes. I wonder if she learned it that way? Regardless, I'm beat, and have napped a lot of the day away (in between chicken wrangling). My favorite black copper marans girl was out of the paddock this morning as well. What happens when I'm at work and can't put them back up?!

I think I may need to put some of that aviary netting over the paddocks to keep them in...

Baking bread now, and then I need to start on my to do list. Not the best start to the new year. Why does Puppy have a death wish??!!!

"What death wish, Mommy?" (Photo taken after getting OUT of her paddock, climbing INTO the CL paddock, and harassing the CL girls until the CL rooster had had enough. Hence, the need for a little hospital stay. Good grief...)




- Ant Farm

Puppy is hands-down the cutest NN hen I've ever seen. It's her personality! As frustrating as she is proving to be for you, you've got to admire that spunk + lovableness.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Oh, I do, I do. She's one to do EXACTLY what she wants to do - you should have seen her looking up scouting for ways out of the paddock, 5 minutes after I put her back in. She looked like she was considering scaling the HW cloth side of the coop. She drives Snape to distraction when she's out of the paddock, he goes berserk running back and forth (all of them must have witnessed what happened to Goodwin on Friday).

I'm going to try to hatch her eggs - I think she's the one laying now. Hadn't planned on another hatch so soon, but I want to get it in now...

- Ant Farm

 

[GabrielBane]

No comment whether cat will kill fully grown bird, but Friday night while I was working my first New Years Eve weekend bartending shifts, my neighbor called me and admitted while she had to RUN onto our property and get her outdoor cat because our two jakes had beaten him bloody....She heard him SCREAMING from across the street, found him right out-side our run trying to make his way home. My turkeys aren't aggressive unless they feel the girls or their adoptive Sulms are harassed, so I wouldn't put it past a cat... (The cat has since become an indoor cat, I'm told. She say the turkeys "humbled" him. I dare not ask for photos. )

 

[Pensmaster]

Ah a store bought egg success story.  Was it white or brown eggs?   If white, could either be a specific strain of leghorn or a leghorn on leghorn hybrid(many lines are so inbred they could be argued to be their own breeds).   

Some leghorn lines have a gene that actively suppresses eggshell pigmentation- both browns and blue,, it's used for whiter eggs.  So it may be possible the 2nd generation away from the leghorn,  might start to get a few darker green tones than what the hen lays. 

All three original hens are laying a white egg. Their offspring which was crossed with CCL is laying some what green blue. 7 of 11 hatched with the store bought ones. I dropped one as I hit the hot elements going into incubator. The NN rooster the offspring is with looks more like a Rhode Island Red

While the Trader Joe's lay very well the egg shape isn't always perfect.

 

[GabrielBane]

Also, hope everyone had a great New Years!


Here's an update from brooder1 (NN,Sex-Link and CCLB);

As ornery as she kinda is.... I think this pullet is quickly becoming my favorite in terms of coloration;



Here's an update on the reddish/buffish cockerel, his shank feathers are always so hard to spot. He seems to be getting white "speckles" on his feathers


And our two shy black NN sisters that I feel I never give enough public love. (They're the two smallest, so I have a feeling they'll be getting re-homed just so I don't end up compromising size later~)

 

[lpyrbby]

So, I had three possible NN mix eggs in my incubator and TWO came out with little bare necks and bowties! I'm so excited! They won't be good for my (in my head) Brabanter project, but I'm excited to be part of the NN crowd now

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

So, I had three possible NN mix eggs in my incubator and TWO came out with little bare necks and bowties! I'm so excited! They won't be good for my (in my head) Brabanter project, but I'm excited to be part of the NN crowd now

You won't be sorry!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Bluechick2u]

You know, Puppy doesn't do this all the time - she has this habit of getting out of the paddock, laying eggs in a hidden nest, and getting back in - I lost track of the number of these outdoor nests she had last year - and so I sort of know what her eggs look like. I caught her on the way out this AM and put her back in and keep there form getting out. Then an hour or so later, there was an egg in the nest box (and no one else is laying in that coop to my coop). So I'm saving it to set, and will set any other egg that I find that I think is hers - including if I find her outside nest (which is likely impossible). It is earlier than I had planned to hatch from that coop, but I don't want to wait...

And... Has anyone had a rooster taken down by cats? I found two housecats sitting near the coops this morning - I'm wondering if they got Goodwin by working together. I can't keep them out of the yard... 

- Ant Farm 

I have 3 different neighbors cats come on my property to get the mice that keep trying to get into my chicken feed. So far they have made no attack on my chickens, and my guard llama ignores them but charges any dog that comes near. Residents in this area say they've never had trouble with cats, but endless trouble with dog attacks. In the past I've fed feral cats and they never troubled my chickens. Not saying that this is a rule, just that I have had many feral cats near my chickens and they never attacked even the young chickens. I have however had trouble with dogs before getting the guard llama, although they never got all the way through the hardware cloth. If a cat takes prey, you won't find feathers at the attack site, it will be a distance away where they dragged it and pulled off the feathers in a ring (sparrows etc that I've seen) if it was canine attack, feathers everywhere, they thrash the prey around. Hope this helps, its just one person's oppinion.

 

[draye]

So, I had three possible NN mix eggs in my incubator and TWO came out with little bare necks and bowties! I'm so excited! They won't be good for my (in my head) Brabanter project, but I'm excited to be part of the NN crowd now

Congratulations! Welcome to the Naked world. I think you'll love it.