Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

@Fire Ant Farm
 Loving these birds as well!  So nice to weigh them and get some real metrics!  Smart!

@Kassaundra
 Those birds are looking AWESOME!  Progressing nicely!

I went into lockdown with 193 eggs today.  I've never hatched this many at once, wish me luck!

Wow! And folks thought I hatched a. Lot at once!

Feb. 12th hatch I hatched 80, sold them all but two ( they disappeared).. I've currently have 84 in the incubator.

 

[Phill98]

Some 3 week shots of the stinky doos. They are still being brooded inside so they have been completely off heat for a week or so now. I will be moving them to the garage soon so they may go back on night heat for a few days to adjust when I move them.

Any predictions, boys, girls?

 

[bramblefir]

Nice finds! and thanks for looking.  Those are great pics for showing the long backs and tail angles too..  

No problem! There were a few other breeds that have a similar top line as the NN, but it'd be a real project fixing all the traits they'd bring along. Not to mention that most of them are bordering on extinction...

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Fire Ant Farm Loving these birds as well! So nice to weigh them and get some real metrics! Smart!

@Kassaundra Those birds are looking AWESOME! Progressing nicely!

I went into lockdown with 193 eggs today. I've never hatched this many at once, wish me luck!

Thanks - and good luck with your hatch!!!

Guess what arrived today, everyone - the Aloha NN chicks!!!! I have 19 Naked necked ones (if I counted right - I was trying to get them to the water and brooder quickly), and about 8 fully feathered Alohas to round things out. They are all ok except one fully feathered one who looked weak out of the box - I'll have to watch him/her. They were hungry and thirsty after their trip, and are no safely under their MHP dozing, popping out occasionally for water and food. (Pardon the poopy mess - unavoidable with 27 chicks in the brooder...)





- Ant Farm

 

[eldonrgv]

So I went to Tractor Supply for some feed, as I entered I could hear at a distance all this peeping going on....Baby Chicks had arrived!!!! This little bugers were actually telling me "Take Us Home", I swear I actually heard them....lol...that's what I told my wife. So got me all 35 of them.

 

[DesertChic]

You guys are seriously giving me the itch to hatch more chicks!

 

[Bluechick2u]

Those look like the ones I got last year from a feed store that orders from a hatchery in Texas, if so they are wonderful birds, very healthy and great resilience, you will be so very happy you picked them up on a whim!

 

[ForrestGump]

My last hatch didn't have any turkens - what was I thinking?

I did end up with 3 showgirls. I kept two of them, but they aren't really growing on me yet. I like one of them more than the other. They are so quiet.

This is the one I didn't keep.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

So I went to Tractor Supply for some feed, as I entered I could hear at a distance all this peeping going on....Baby Chicks had arrived!!!! This little bugers were actually telling me "Take Us Home", I swear I actually heard them....lol...that's what I told my wife. So got me all 35 of them.

They're probably from Ideal, I'm thinking. My original NNs are from Ideal and they have been wonderful. Enjoy!!!!!

 

[eldonrgv]

You guys are seriously giving me the itch to hatch more chicks! 

You gave me the itch with Turkens by reading your threads at Sustainable Meat / Standard Bred Dual Purpose Bird Thread about your birds, so you're the one to blame.....lmao....I was doing well with my Cornish crosses until you came along....lmao.