Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[homeschoolchick]

Does anyone have any single combed barred and/or crele bantam NN hatching eggs available?

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

yoie, how fun watching them feather out!! Looks like they'll all be a little different.

DDD, ahhhh, the red headed child! LOL! They always say that about the read headed child!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Does anyone have any single combed barred and/or crele bantam NN hatching eggs available?

I am about to set up a bantam pen that will make *some* barred chicks. I'm going to move some (NaNa) Naked Neck girls, blacks and a blue, in with a barred Cochin guy. The chicks will all be Naked Necks, 50% barred / 50% solid.
The little NN girls a with a Polish guy right now so three-ish weeks before the barred eggs will be coming.

KK, Too funny, I AM a red-headed stepchild. The chick may have come from an egg I *thought* was a Silkie egg, but might have been from a Cochin girl that just started laying without me noticing. The Cochin girl is from a mille fleur project and didn't inherit mottle gene. She's the only *reddish* bird I can think of. I mentioned before, my Silkie girls are keeping company with a barred NN green-egger guy since I lost my white Silkie roo.
Then again, it may be just a sport.
I'll get a pic when I move chicks out of the hatcher later this morning.

 

[homeschoolchick]

I am about to set up a bantam pen that will make *some* barred chicks. I'm going to move some (NaNa) Naked Neck girls, blacks and a blue, in with a barred Cochin guy. The chicks will all be Naked Necks, 50% barred / 50% solid.
The little NN girls a with a Polish guy right now so three-ish weeks before the barred eggs will be coming.
KK, Too funny, I AM a red-headed stepchild. The chick may have come from an egg I *thought* was a Silkie egg, but might have been from a Cochin girl that just started laying without me noticing. The Cochin girl is from a mille fleur project and didn't inherit mottle gene. She's the only *reddish* bird I can think of. I mentioned before, my Silkie girls are keeping company with a barred NN green-egger guy since I lost my white Silkie roo.
Then again, it may be just a sport.
I'll get a pic when I move chicks out of the hatcher later this morning.

Can't wait to see pics!!!!

I will also be looking forward to seeing pics and hearing about available eggs from your barred pen!!! Would these produce colored eggs as well, or would the cochin mixed in, change the color production?

 

[chickgrowerdan]

I have believed until today that 2 roosters could get along. But, I'm covered in my little Dave's blood right now. So if anyone is willing and able to pick up both Dave and his girl June I'd gladly let them go rather than trying to pen them separately from the rest.

 

[homeschoolchick]

AWWW!!!! I am so sorry! It is heart breaking, isn't it! Hope everything turns out for you and the two.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

chickgrowerdan, So Sorry for such sad news!! I currently have 3 roosters in one pen. UGH! I sure hope it doesn't come to that. Wish roosters would get along . . . I'd have a whole pen of them.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't. I've had rooster-pens of 15 - 20 guys get along just fine til one day they gang up on one and beat him down. I've got several pens now with 2 guys and hens and they are good. They may decide tomorrow that they hate each other. Then my big mixed run probably has a bunch of roosters and 30-ish hens. They stand off and spar sometimes, but usually thrash it out without any bloodshed.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Which one of these is not like the others?

It's a fibromelanotic NN chick that is WAY off-color. I've never hatched one with so much color.

Big chick and clean-legged, so not from bantam Cochin mom like I thought when I first saw it in the hatcher. Looking at it's comb, I'd guess it is a sport from one of the blue/black, blue/splash NN green-egger pens.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

These *potential* barred bantam NN's should lay cream/brown eggs. The barred NN green-egger guy is large fowl and *shouldn't have* been allowed in with the Silkie girls, but he was young and blind in one eye and slow / shy (although not so slow as I thought) and just *ended up* there by accident. I have a pen of barred / blue barred NN green-eggers, but they are large fowl.

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Can't wait to see pics!!!!

I will also be looking forward to seeing pics and hearing about available eggs from your barred pen!!! Would these produce colored eggs as well, or would the cochin mixed in, change the color production?