Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Cute, PG! Glad you could save the eggs.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Dipsy Doodle Doo,haven't heard from you in the turken/naked neck thread in a while.So glad to see you back.Have missed seeing pics of all those gorgeous birds of yours.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

My NNs do very well in the cold....they are first out of the coop on cold and frosty mornings. Last two winters we had day time temperatures below freezing and nights nearing 0 degrees. At night they crowded together in the coop and kept warm by body heat. I feed them well through the winter and make warm porridge for them daily.

I have been very pleasantly surprised. A few weeks back I lost my lovely NN hen, Jezebel, to a fox when she went broody (unbeknownst to me) under a hedge. Two days later i found a big Brahma hen brooding behind a large tuft of grass very close to my big coop.(I hadn't realised as she made her entrance daily when I went down to the coop to feed them, and I thought she had appeared from inside the coop and not from nearby).The eggs she was sitting on all looked like her own. She refused to set in a safe place and has since rejoined the flock. As the eggs showed embryos, I placed them in the incubator. 5 have hatched so far, the first two had fully feathered necks and looked Brahma-ish.

However, overnight 3 have hatched....and they must be progeny of Gordon. All these three are Naked Neck (doesn't show from this angle in the one on the right).

pgpoultry
Cute chicks,especially the little buff/brown one.Glad you were able to get some babies from Gordon.

 

[Chicken Frenzie]

Wouldn't that be amazing if the egg I put under my broody was a NN?!?! I would be so happy. Because Teddy isn't looking 100% female, and if it's a boy he has to go . I love Teddy!!! But Teddy hatched from a dark brown egg, and this is light brown. But, the dad might've been a NN so there is a chance!!!

 

[LarissaSlates98]

Lastnight the remaining chicks hatched (10/15 eggs hatched) now read carefully. There is 11 chicks, how? One egg had twins! Two black NN twins, One was the average size of a new hatched NN, the other was about the size of a newly hatched Silkie chick, and Some of its intestines were hanging out of its tummy along with its yolk that it should have absorbed, but didnt due to there being twins in one egg. So I made the critical decision, "Do I kill it or try to save it?..." Well, I don't have the heart to give up on a animal until it gives up too. So here it is 2 AM in the morning, I got alcohol prep pads to clean the supplies with, tweezers, bandage, neosporin, and disinfected everything including my hands, There was no way I could get the yolk to go inside the chick, at all, So oh so carefully I detached the yolk (No blood or mess due to my good judgement of where to cut) It was then discarded, now the yolk wasn't hanging out of the chick, but some of the intestines were. I very carefully and gently worked the intestines back into the chicks tummy where the need to be, within 8 mins this was all done. I thien cleaned up the tiny opening and put neosporin in it, the chick is doing great this morning. It is a miracle

 

[Kassaundra]

Lastnight the remaining chicks hatched (10/15 eggs hatched) now read carefully. There is 11 chicks, how? One egg had twins! Two black NN twins, One was the average size of a new hatched NN, the other was about the size of a newly hatched Silkie chick, and Some of its intestines were hanging out of its tummy along with its yolk that it should have absorbed, but didnt due to there being twins in one egg. So I made the critical decision, "Do I kill it or try to save it?..." Well, I don't have the heart to give up on a animal until it gives up too. So here it is 2 AM in the morning, I got alcohol prep pads to clean the supplies with, tweezers, bandage, neosporin, and disinfected everything including my hands, There was no way I could get the yolk to go inside the chick, at all, So oh so carefully I detached the yolk (No blood or mess due to my good judgement of where to cut) It was then discarded, now the yolk wasn't hanging out of the chick, but some of the intestines were. I very carefully and gently worked the intestines back into the chicks tummy where the need to be, within 8 mins this was all done. I thien cleaned up the tiny opening and put neosporin in it, the chick is doing great this morning. It is a miracle

That is awesome, I hope your little chick makes it after that effort.

 

[LarissaSlates98]

Me too! So far he/she isdoing perfect!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

That is amazing, Larissa!

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Some pics of my naked necks that I took this afternoon.
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[NewToFarming]

PG... Yay! We have Gordon babies to watch grow up! I am so glad you were able to hatch those eggs!

Larrissa ... Great news you were able to save the twin! I would love to see pictures of them. It is amazing they both hatched and more amazing that you were able to save him. But I think you found the little ones name.. "Miracle!"

Georgiaboy... you are going to have some spectacular NN's there! I can't wait to see them grow!