Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kassaundra]

Here is a video of feeding them dubia. This is the second video we made this is more of a chase then the first video.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Okay Kassaundra, what's dubia?

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I found my little black bantam frizzle (from DDD) sitting on two eggs today. I couldn't take it anymore...didn't have the heart to throw her off the nest and take her eggs. ..so instead I ran up to the house, grabbed three more and put them under her. She happily tucked them under her. I guess in 21 days we'll have some new little bantam Naked Necks running around!

 

[Kassaundra]

It's a feeder insect (tropical roach) I raise for the chickens.

 

[Nava]

If I kept one I'd keep the blue with the dark legs and eyes. The other blue one has light eyes and yellow skin, also much smaller.
Both are lovely in their own right, but alas...I can't have it all.

The splash cockerels have a deeper color than the pullets. Is it always the case or is it just luck of the draw this time around?

some times you get a really good splash and some times you don't look at these pullets

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Thanks for the pictures Nava. I wasn't sure if the difference in the coloration was due to sex or if it just happened that the two boys are deeper lavender color and the girls are so much lighter. I love the light delicate silver of the girls. I see some of the darker feathers coming in. The top picture is beautiful so I'm hoping for at least one or two of these. So if I kept the bigger, darker blue and bred him with the splash girls I'd get blue/black/splash? Still trying to figure out what to do.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

It's a feeder insect (tropical roach) I raise for the chickens.

I'm not usually grossed out by anything...but roaches!!

 

[pgpoultry]

Well this may really disgust.

Last year I had an unfortunate sheep with fly strike (maggots in the fleece which eat into the body tissues, usually at the site of some trivial wound). The poor animal had thousands of maggots when we came to examine him closely. We bought him to the shed and sheared cut off the fleece which was hiding all the maggots. Cue entry of roo, who notes the maggots dropping off. He starts clucking and holding one up as a trophy.....a mob of the others entered and promptly began a maggot feeding frenzy on the floor.

The story has a happy ending. Lamb's body completely cleared of maggots by a couple of doses of iodine (though orange/brown fleece made him stand out in the crowd for a while) and lots off happy chickens. Yes the chickens were fine and yes the eggs tasted good.

 

[queenchick16]

They are beautiful. Love the first one

some times you get a really good splash and some times you don't look at these pullets

 

[queenchick16]

Here is a video of feeding them dubia. This is the second video we made this is more of a chase then the first video.

I love the fact hat they all want the same one(just like kids)

 

[Alyce birdbrain]

Share some pictures when you get a chance. I let my bantam NN breed my biggest LF EE and got a little silly looking pullet from them. It's always fun to see what the babies look like.
You probably get some olive eggs.
How old is your little boy?

I will try to get some pictures this weekend. Also my eggs are hatching so I will have at least a couple more. Most were from my Serama and Old English Bantam crossed with Silkie. I have some pictures on my chicken facebook also. It's Henrietta Bird Brain.