Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Beer can]

Yup, I crossed green and olive laying EE's to a welsummer and ended up with funky looking brown eggs lol.

 

[deserteggs22]

Sorry about that gen blurry or unclear pictures. They aren't very friendly.
NN/Black Coppet Marans

She is mostly black with brown leakage all over.

NN/Blue Copper Marans

This one is mostly light brown with blue/grey tail feathers.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Fire Ant Farm thank you! By the way, NN broilers sound fantastic! I'm not very familiar with broiler breeding...only that of Cornish Crosses. These guys and gals you would be able to raise to mate, correct?

I think broiler is a loose term for a bird that grows fast. I have some NN x German New Hampshire crosses going up and the largest of them is ~4lbs at only 10 weeks.

(Graphs to follow!!!)

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, folks, it's Wednesday, and you know what that means - it's the Tank x GNH chick weigh-in day! They HATE being weighed int eh bucket - I ordered a cage to use that will be easier, but it hasn't arrived yet. That being said, I do think I'm getting accurate weights.

Here's the table and graph. Recall that the boys are orange, girls are purple, and for comparison Tank (sire) growth curve is blue, and Snape (other large NN rooster) is green. Of note, the largest chick is 62.8oz - that's only 1.2 oz shy of being 4lbs at 10 weeks. He pulled ahead of the other big boy again this week.





Once I have enough data collected, I will try to see if I can plot all four chick cohorts together to compare (I'd have to figure out how to do it without it being a mess). Or I might just do it with the notable individuals of each group (e.g., Kirk, Heinz, Khan...)

I'm doing a LOT of weighing of chicks this spring. Every Saturday it's the Puppy/Snape babies, every Sunday it's the Aloha NNs, every Tuesday it's the S&G NNs, and every Wednesday it's the TankxGNHs.

- Ant Farm

 

[chickengr]

Thank you...I didn't know that about the leg color. I agree about him being a good breeder though! Which is why I'm penning him up in a couple of days with some Blue Copper and Black Copper Marans with nice leg feathering. I found out that if you keep only females from this mating and mate back to Silvers, within three generations the males should be pure Silver. But it's also why I have him over the Turkens, and he'll be mated back to his mother.

He's almost 2 years old now and I'm a little nervous as I always seem to lose my nice males early. Fingers crossed that this breeding goes well. I hate not having back ups!

Good luck with your crosses.

if you want more information about breeding marans you can send a pm to @Chooks man

 

[DesertChic]

I've been a bad chicken mommy.

I noticed two days ago that one of my NN/Biel girls was cowering in her pen all day in spite of the heat. I thought it was because my huge Dark Cornish cockerel was breeding her ruthlessly, but yesterday morning I finally decided to really inspect her and discovered that her sides have practically been carved off of her from excessive mating. She's a bloody mess. I brought her in, doctored her up as best I could, and put her in the isolation pen to recover, but honestly, the wounds may be too bad to recover from. She's still somewhat active, scratching around briefly in the pine shavings, and eats a small amount of food from time to time, but mostly she just stands there with feathers fluffed up and watches the other chickens warily through the hardware cloth.

Needless to say I'm spending today inspecting all of my hens for injury. I had no idea it had gotten this bad.

 

[chickengr]

I've been a bad chicken mommy.

I noticed two days ago that one of my NN/Biel girls was cowering in her pen all day in spite of the heat. I thought it was because my huge Dark Cornish cockerel was breeding her ruthlessly, but yesterday morning I finally decided to really inspect her and discovered that her sides have practically been carved off of her from excessive mating. She's a bloody mess. I brought her in, doctored her up as best I could, and put her in the isolation pen to recover, but honestly, the wounds may be too bad to recover from. She's still somewhat active, scratching around briefly in the pine shavings, and eats a small amount of food from time to time, but mostly she just stands there with feathers fluffed up and watches the other chickens warily through the hardware cloth.

Needless to say I'm spending today inspecting all of my hens for injury. I had no idea it had gotten this bad.

it happens from time to time. I had to trim spurs to a few of my roos. my choco (NN) has the same problem and she is pecking her wounds. I put some zinc cream and hope she will get well soon. they usually do. my marans pullet did.

I hope your girl will get well soon. maybe you should give her antibiotic for 3-4 days.

 

[Beer can]

Lambert Kay EMT gel at TSC works wonders on wounds. Heal super quick. Amazing stuff.

 

[Carole AM]

Any idea what color this pullet will be?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I've been a bad chicken mommy.

I noticed two days ago that one of my NN/Biel girls was cowering in her pen all day in spite of the heat. I thought it was because my huge Dark Cornish cockerel was breeding her ruthlessly, but yesterday morning I finally decided to really inspect her and discovered that her sides have practically been carved off of her from excessive mating. She's a bloody mess. I brought her in, doctored her up as best I could, and put her in the isolation pen to recover, but honestly, the wounds may be too bad to recover from. She's still somewhat active, scratching around briefly in the pine shavings, and eats a small amount of food from time to time, but mostly she just stands there with feathers fluffed up and watches the other chickens warily through the hardware cloth.

Needless to say I'm spending today inspecting all of my hens for injury. I had no idea it had gotten this bad.