Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[NewToFarming]

I thought I might show one of mine at the local show this summer. Last year two bantam NNs actually won best in breed.

The standard is at the kind of level nobody feels intimidated, though it's the oldest show in Britain (a pretty small country!)......There are also categories for ugliest (please don't tell me to enter Gordon), friendliest, oddest, as well as longest bramble, best bit of turf, oddest looking vegetable etc. Actually Gordon would star as ugliest and friendliest roo..... maybe I will take him along.

It is a fun show, and I think these are the best. Thousands of visitors, lots to learn, and a chance to show your pride and joy and educate folk.

I have a super-friendly and huge Brahma hen who could go along too.

That sounds like such a fun show and yes I think you need to take Gordon along!

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

KKH #5 is my favorite.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Kev wrote: " Every time, the haircut and beard trim helped."

Chickens and people really aren't that different after all!

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

KKH #5 is my favorite.   

My daughter's too. These chicks really look like the hens in the face. Although I love my splash hen let's just say in a beauty contest she'd be a runner up. Both completely naked necks came from the splash, the ones with a bowtie from the black.


Dipsy Doodle Doo, what colors do you have in your black and splash pens?

 

[sundancenbare]

how do I find dipsy

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Those are all fabulous chicks!

Colors in Frizz NN green-egger pens: #2 pen has splash frizz roo over black and blue hens and Tx pen has splash frizz roo over splash and barred hens.
(the other NN pens are in a state of upheaval or broody / not laying).

I am hugely sad. My oldest (and first) spl Fm NN green-egger hen started going blind a while back. She acted like she couldn't see very well, then lost all sight in one eye, shortly after in the other eye. She is not handling being sightless very well. I had her in a pen 'next to' her old pen, but all she did was walk the fence to try to get back to where she was and squawk (she can hear her old pen-mates). If I put her back in, she is acts confused and hides in a corner, causing the others to pick at her. I moved her to a pen away from her old pen and she walks the fence and looks for her old familiar place.
I'm afraid she has other issues going on besides just losing her sight --- poor girl. I don't know what else to do for her.

Here I am, Sundancenbare.

 

[gootziecat]

I'm sorry about your hen, Lisa. Some times I think it's as hard on the caretaker as it is the bird with special needs and problems.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Thanks Sande, and you are exactly right. I can treat a wound and fix a broken leg, but I can't give her sight back. She is in a bad place that I can't fix, she is miserable and discontented no matter where she is. Sadly, that is no way for anyone to live.

 

[NewToFarming]

I am sorry about your girl Dipsy. I wonder what could of happened to cause the blindness? It has to be hard for them to adapt to the blindness after having sight and then losing it. I had a blind silkie but that was from birth and she adapted well but did stress if things changed. Some of her hatchmates would even help guide her around. I lost her in the flooding when I lived in PA. I think all the rain and noise caused her to become disoriented and she got lost in the field and couldn't get back. She had developed a very good sense of hearing and figuring out where it was coming from and when she was trying to get her bearings as to where she was at, would do these spinning Ninja jumps which were quite comical to watch.

 

[dinahmoe]

my first NN