Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Poor, poor little girl. What are you treating the wound with? I've had good luck with Blu-Kote / Wound-Kote.
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[Knock Kneed Hen]

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I came on BYC and got the advice to clean it with iodine and put antibiotic ointment on it twice daily. I've been doing that and it looks so much better. I'm hoping that eventually the skin will fill back in.
This is the worst wound I've seen yet,

, it almost went down to the skull. Nothing to sew back on so it's just a matter of giving it time. I need to order Blu-Kote online. I went to several feed stores locally and they didn't carry it. The bird just carries on business as usual. I just don't understand why it would happen in the first place. Everyone was getting along wonderfully. I was contemplating putting more eggs under my broody because I thought this was all just too easy!!

ETA: Do you think it will heal completely? I don't expect it to look beautiful, but I do want to put her back with the flock eventually. Here's an up close pic.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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I came on BYC and got the advice to clean it with iodine and put antibiotic ointment on it twice daily. I've been doing that and it looks so much better. I'm hoping that eventually the skin will fill back in.
This is the worst wound I've seen yet,

, it almost went down to the skull. Nothing to sew back on so it's just a matter of giving it time. I need to order Blu-Kote online. I went to several feed stores locally and they didn't carry it. The bird just carries on business as usual. I just don't understand why it would happen in the first place. Everyone was getting along wonderfully. I was contemplating putting more eggs under my broody because I thought this was all just too easy!!

I'm sorry to say I've had that happen here more than once --- usually when a young girl accidently jumps / flies over in an all-rooster pen. They just hem her in a corner and grab right there over and over. The skin tears in that spot where they grab with their beaks and eventually there is nothing there but bare skull.
The worst I've seen was one of my black-skin pullets (not NN) and that was the first time I had a clue she had black flesh and bones. I was trying to clean the dirt off the wound, but it wasn't dirt. The flesh was black and I could see her poor little black skull. On a happy note, she healed completely and even grew back the feathers in that spot.
Good luck with her!

Lisa

 

[gootziecat]

Pictures! Pictures! Here are a couple of the kids back on posts #1741 and 1806. They're about 7 wks old.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Lovely, lovely! I'm partial to blues.

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gootziecat splendid birds

Allison I think that her skin will heal. A long time ago I had a pen of roosters peck the head of the smallest one and it looked worse that your picture and he healed well with minimal treatment. Good color is important but I'd rather have good behavior. But since LiL Kev is young maybe he needs time to mellow.

 

[gootziecat]

Thank ya'all. I so enjoy seeing everyone elses NNs. They're all great.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

gootziecat , those are lovely birds! I'm also partial to the blues and blue tones, but I really like the NN black. I think the contrast with the skin is nice to look at. Plus, the irridescent colors of the black are so pretty.
Oh!! so many wonderful birds.....why must we limit ourselves!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! If this wasn't answered, I'd say it's not a breed trait --- at least not for the Naked Necks here.
I have a bow-leg NN cockerel, but he is the only bow-leg chicken I've ever seen.

Lisa
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[Kev]

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<raises hand> With cuckoo, blacks, black/blue coppers... my current blue NN got their blue from blue coppers a couple generations back.

Your goal would be very easy, especially if you start with a black or mostly black turken (or blue/splash turken) but basically any color turken will do for the first cross as the birchen pattern of thre Coppers is dominant over most colors/patterns(but it does get affected by various genes, so initially some birds may have a lot more or less color, etc). Leg feathering will be sparse or maybe nonexistent on the cross birds but all you need to do is keep one or two until breeding age and breed it back to Marans, choose the chicks from that cross and you're pretty much set for this goal. Only thing to keep in mind is that naked neck is dominant so to get more naked necks, need to keep and breed a naked neck each generation.

Have fun!