Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[I Love Layers]

Work on the Black/white Naked Necks all destroyed in a little of no time.
My Red Winged Black rooster and 10 hens in that run with him. Three whites a black and some Birchens and the pretty blue Birchen hen. Man that sucks but life will go on. I'll build them up again.


There will be two dead dogs by the end of the day.

I've got a few chicks from these breeding s in the broilers. Going to put on some more eggs trying for the Blacks/whites.

Wow that's horrible.. the three S's should come in handy

 

[DesertChic]

@Cynthia12
I hope that those babies stay solid black. Hopefully they are out of the white hens. My rooster that sired them ( he's actually Red Birchen, I think), has Red in his wing feathers.

I've been told that the white hens should produce solid black though.


Yes, those were eggs that I sent to Cynthia. We've kind of sorta kept it quite, because I wanted to do a test shipment on my eggs. I've shipped some in the past. Most of the ones shipped arrived to their destination in good condition ( older shipments), but the fertility wasn't that great.

Since then I've been working on the fertility of my flock. It had been pretty good, if I remember right the last ones I set and hatched had a 92/93 % fertility rate. Mind you though not all hatched, as chicks sometimes do they die in the shell before hatching.

Anyway back to this shipment. I sent out 25 eggs. I wrapped each egg in paper towel then bubble wrapoedceach egg. Put crumpled paper in the bus and set each egg pointy side down. Then stuffed paper in that box, and sealed it. That box was put into another box and cushioned with more crumpled paper and cut down cardboard to help cushion it.

All that and the box arrived crushed on one end. Not sure exactly how many eggs were crushed/damaged. But Cynthia said that 15 of those eggs were viable ( I think that was the word she used). 12 went into lock down ( 6 hatched and 6 DIS). Only 1 of the six hatched was fully feathered.

I will work on a way to pack eggs ( hopefully) different and a little better when and if I decide to give another test shipment.

When I ship, and I've shipped all the way to Maine with zero breakage and a 70-80% hatch rate, I wrap each egg in a strip of paper towel and then place the egg point down in an egg carton. Once the carton is full I wrap it in aluminum foil, and depending upon the size of the box, bubble wrap. I use the aluminum foil to help counteract an potential ill effects of X-rays and to add an extra layer of temperature stabilization. The cartons are nestled in various types of packing material, depending upon weather conditions, size of shipment, etc. When I shipped to Maine I pulled out all the stops and used bubble wrap, crumpled newspaper, shredded paper and even pine bedding.

 

[lpyrbby]

Check out some of the blue/black/spash threads on other breeds. Every where I look, anything splash always starts out looking something like your chick. Like these: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1127472/australorp-black-blue-splash-post-pics-please/90

I was thinking splash too..man, that would be fun! I love splash anything. I have a little bantam that is making me very happy. A little bantam cochin, splash!

Huh. Interesting I'm stoked to see how this one feathers out then. Actually, I'm stoked to see what happens with all of them. She had a great variety on her yard. A splash though, that could be fun!

 

[draye]

Well since the massacre if my black/whites I decided I needed to set more eggs. Not sure I got many if any if the eggs from that run. Just hoping I did.

So since I lost 10 hens and a rooster. I set 55 eggs. I know this will make the 10 ( chicken math you know). # 55 fir the rooster replacement. The other 54 about 5 or six probably won't hatch, that leaves approx, 48. Out of those 48 3/4 will be roosters so that leaves me with only about 12 being pullets and figure in a possible mishap in figures that will leave me with ten pullets.

Someone check my math on thus but I really think I'm right in it.


R.I.P. Blackie and sister wives.

A couple of the girls.

 

[Kassaundra]

I swear I'm going to write "Mena, mena, tekle and parson" (probably not spelled right) on Stripy Butt's coop wall.

 

[Kassaundra]

Some 13 day old pics

 

[Poultrybonkers]

My naked neck chicks 1 roo and 2 hens

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Some 13 day old pics

Why does one have no feathers? He needs a sweater lol

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Work on the Black/white Naked Necks all destroyed in a little of no time.
My Red Winged Black rooster and 10 hens in that run with him. Three whites a black and some Birchens and the pretty blue Birchen hen. Man that sucks but life will go on. I'll build them up again.


There will be two dead dogs by the end of the day.

I've got a few chicks from these breeding s in the broilers. Going to put on some more eggs trying for the Blacks/whites.

Oh, no - not again!!!!! Those dogs have to go, one way or another (aren't they your kid's dogs or something?)

How frustrating and sad.

- Ant Farm

 

[Kassaundra]

Why does one have no feathers? He needs a sweater lol

He has a double hit of the scaleless gene. I am about to put a sock tunic on him, but they get so dramatic when I put clothes on them