Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

You are welcome! Folks say that if you combine the NA gene and the pea comb gene, there is even further reduced feathering, and NANA will be barenecked or nearly so, and Nana will have smaller bowties. I would love to get pea combs in my Naked Necks one day. (Too many projects.)

- Ant Farm

 

[DesertChic]

You are welcome! Folks say that if you combine the NA gene and the pea comb gene, there is even further reduced feathering, and NANA will be barenecked or nearly so, and Nana will have smaller bowties. I would love to get pea combs in my Naked Necks one day. (Too many projects.)

- Ant Farm

My pea comb NNs just sorta happened. And now that I've bred Monty to my NANA girls, and Monty is pea combed, I guess I'll have even more of them.

 

[Kassaundra]

Have I said this week how much I hate my Brinsea??? I only had it half full this time and put a big ol' wet sponge in it and filled both reseviors w/ water as full as I could and they still shrink wrapped. I have 6 alive and out or mostly out now, not sure if they will all live or not. Time will tell.

 

[Phill98]

Have I said this week how much I hate my Brinsea???  I only had it half full this time and put a big ol' wet sponge in it and filled both reseviors w/ water as full as I could and they still shrink wrapped.  I have 6 alive and out or mostly out now, not sure if they will all live or not.  Time will tell.

I haven't incubated yet, but what is shrink wrapping? When membrane gets too dry or?!

Can you re-fill the water reservoar after putting water in the first time?
Again, I don't know absolutely anything about incubating.

Hope they survive, good luck!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Have I said this week how much I hate my Brinsea??? I only had it half full this time and put a big ol' wet sponge in it and filled both reseviors w/ water as full as I could and they still shrink wrapped. I have 6 alive and out or mostly out now, not sure if they will all live or not. Time will tell.

I love my Brinsea. I think your 'bator is cursed.

 

[cactusrota]

I haven't incubated yet, but what is shrink wrapping? When membrane gets too dry or?!

Can you re-fill the water reservoar after putting water in the first time?
Again, I don't know absolutely anything about incubating.

Hope they survive, good luck!

I wouldn't have known that was the term for it either except I just read something on it last week. It's when the egg loses too much moisture and the membrane inside the shell literally shrink wraps the chick like a package, preventing it from being able to hatch. When chicks hatch they rotate around in a circle in the shell, cutting a trapdoor type circle out of the egg for evacuation. If they can't rotate, they can't hatch, and they die in the shell.

 

[DesertChic]

Have I said this week how much I hate my Brinsea??? I only had it half full this time and put a big ol' wet sponge in it and filled both reseviors w/ water as full as I could and they still shrink wrapped. I have 6 alive and out or mostly out now, not sure if they will all live or not. Time will tell.

I'd recommend getting an R-Com. I got mine because it's dummy proof, and I needed all the help I could get. The only shrink-wrapped chicks I've had (two in total) have probably resulted from me opening the incubator too much during hatching.

 

[cactusrota]

When I was staying with my brother, helping him hatch eggs, everybody there had what we called "f**k-with-it-itis". A real disability my family struggles with on a daily basis. The term "don't fix it if it aint broke" doesn't hold much weight there. So, the door got openned and hatching chicks got messed with alot, and they were always moving wet chicks to the brooder instead of letting them dry out in the incubator. So, I kept a spray bottle of warm water next to the incubator and every chick that was hatching got sprayed to keep the membrane wet. It saved a few, but not all. I never had so much problems hatching my own chicks in my own bators. I'm building a new one right now, converting a mini-fridge. It's gonna hold up to 80 eggs, and if I build a third tray for the third empty shelf, that'll go up to 120. I told my husband and I think he had a mini anxiety attack from the idea of having that many chicks all at once... haha!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Does anyone here have NN hatching eggs that they could/would be willing to ship? I have a friend on another thread who wants NNs and wants to start with hatching eggs. I'm not NPIP or even tested for anything, and so I'm seeing if anyone else here has any.

- Ant Farm

 

[chickengr]

Have I said this week how much I hate my Brinsea??? I only had it half full this time and put a big ol' wet sponge in it and filled both reseviors w/ water as full as I could and they still shrink wrapped. I have 6 alive and out or mostly out now, not sure if they will all live or not. Time will tell.

sorry to hear that.

when I switched off incubator because I thought there had been no chicks to hatch humidity went to 90. that helped my little miracle to make a hole in the shell. you can also spray them.