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[Flowerbh]

Sweet! I knew Barred Rocks and Dom's were different but never knew it was simple as comb type. Cool.

Not only their combs are different, but the stripping patterns are different. Google "difference between barred rock and doms."

 

[RoboDuck]

Sweet! I knew Barred Rocks and Dom's were different but never knew it was simple as comb type. Cool.

Not only their combs are different, but the stripping patterns are different.  Google "difference between barred rock and doms."

You should never use stripper on your chickens. It's bad for them.

 

[Flowerbh]

@Flowerbh the NN/Turkens I got from a lady at the swap were tan colored eggs. I know you said that your NNs lay colored eggs. Can you help me here please? I thought NNs and Turkens were the same thing. What ever they are the chicks are so darn cute! Two blonde/yellow and two dark colored.

Turkens are the true name for Naked Necks. I just happen to get my NN's from a lady who has worked with NNs for years. She has crossed NN's with Easter Eggers so many times, and then the colored egg layers back to each other that over the years all her NNs now lay blue or green eggs. If you got a NN from me, it would have come from a green egg as I saved those blue egged ones from my frizzled NN to hatch for myself!

Try noticing the comb. Mine may have either a pea comb or a partial pea comb. (Dad was a single combed bird) So it could have a single comb, but maybe a pea.

They are one of my favorites because they are so unusual.

 

[valleychicks]

The feathered feet will basically be a smooth showgirl unless it has the silkie feathers.

Oh, ok. The woman I got them from at the McD swap had a Turken/NN Rooster and a Red Ranger Rooster together in a cage. When I asked her what the eggs were marked with a T she said Turken and pointed to the Turken/NN rooster. She also had Silkie and Quail in other cages. So maybe it is a NN/Silkie mix, Showgirl. I will try to get pictures of them sometime this weekend.

 

[Flowerbh]

I know how you feel on that one! Humidity issues frustrate the daylights out of me! I've tried keeping the humidity close to 75 the entire lockdown this hatch and it is hard to do. Then I read the comment of even little drops back to 70 drying the egg/membrane enough to keep them from being able to pip or turn while zipping...yep, someone just told me exactly why one chick suffocated while zipping. 8 chicks hatched fine. 17 (yes,17!) look to be non-hatchers cuz of humidity issues. I've never had this bad of a hatch rate for my own eggs! Turned off the bator to listen for life yesterday afternoon, was tapping a second egg and getting no sounds when loud cheeping from a group still in the bator made me scramble to get it back on and up the humidity again! No progress this a.m. so I probably finished it off checking them:-( So not right to know there was life in there and I snuffed it. Is there an incubator that regulates humidity itself but holds more than 20 eggs?A

I would get upset if my humidity went that high at lockdown. I only want 50-65. I don't even like it as high as 65, but that is my top limit. You may want to go to the "learning center" at the top of the page. Scroll down to 'hatching 101' and read some of the articles. It has lots of useful information.

I had a friend who kept telling me he was going to hatch eggs 'the right way' and told me he was starting with 60% humidity and lockdown at 75%. Killed them all every time.....40 eggs each time! He finally let his wife take over and she used my #s and she finally has lots of chicks!

 

[valleychicks]

Turkens are the true name for Naked Necks. I just happen to get my NN's from a lady who has worked with NNs for years. She has crossed NN's with Easter Eggers so many times, and then the colored egg layers back to each other that over the years all her NNs now lay blue or green eggs. If you got a NN from me, it would have come from a green egg as I saved those blue egged ones from my frizzled NN to hatch for myself!

Try noticing the comb. Mine may have either a pea comb or a partial pea comb. (Dad was a single combed bird) So it could have a single comb, but maybe a pea.

They are one of my favorites because they are so unusual.

That would have been awesome to get one of yours but the only ones with Naked Necks that hatched were the ones I got from the lady at the swap and they were from cream colored eggs. One or two of your eggs didn't develop (Maran and WY) and one is still in the bator (it has GCM on it) waiting to see if it will hatch along with some of my Red Star eggs but I'm starting to think they won't hatch. Friday was the 21st day so should I give them until Sunday?

 

[Flowerbh]

That would have been awesome to get one of yours but the only ones with Naked Necks that hatched were the ones I got from the lady at the swap and they were from cream colored eggs. One or two of your eggs didn't develop (Maran and WY) and one is still in the bator (it has GCM on it) waiting to see if it will hatch along with some of my Red Star eggs but I'm starting to think they won't hatch. Friday was the 21st day so should I give them until Sunday?

BTW, any breed of chicken can be crossed with a NN and you can get all kinds of fun looks. They have a NN thread you might want to check out. NNs are like frizzles, any chicken can be crossed with the genes and be frizzled!

 

[valleychicks]

BTW, any breed of chicken can be crossed with a NN and you can get all kinds of fun looks. They have a NN thread you might want to check out. NNs are like frizzles, any chicken can be crossed with the genes and be frizzled!

Good to know! I will check out the thread. It looks like one of the dark gray with feathered feet NNs may be the dominant chick in the group. It runs right up to my hand and pecks my fingers. All the other chicks shy away or run screaming. LOL!

 

[valleychicks]

And Oh @Flowerbh , I did the feather sexing on most of the chick's wings and they have the staggered feathers. Only a few had the same level feathers. I couldn't figure out the NN's though because they have so much fluff on their wing feathers.

 

[Flowerbh]

I had shut off the bator when the first 8 that hatched the day before were put in the brooder. past experience for me is that what will hatch healthy hatch around the same few hours. Usually nothing else comes a day after even though I give it time. In the past I've had great success with dry incubating until lockdown then raising humidity to 60%...that was until the last couple of incubations of last year. The chicks had problems with the membrane drying before they got out or either they didn't zip all the way before trying to push out so I figured I'd try keeping the humidity around 70 until the first one hatched, keep it around 75 after that instead of letting it fluctuate after each chick hatches. Eggtopsied this morning cuz no progress or noises anymore, day 23. Here's what I got: a few not positioned for hatch when died, a couple of those with internal pips. 1 With blood filled liquid around it- pipped into vein? 1 dark almost black liquid around it. 2 like the pic one in the pic on the right, most like the one on the left. 2 chicks were so big they filled the entire egg with no air cell- those are the ones I heard yesterday when checking eggs. One of those ripped the membrane with its hind end, the other had internally pipped but there was no air cell for it to continue to breathe until externally pipping! Question: Is the one on the left or the one on the right or both considered shrink wrapped? All developed great so lockdown is my problem obviously.

Ok, it sounds like you turned your incubator off and then waited for several days to see if anymore hatched? Is that right? Think of chickens as humans, they all don't hatch at the same time. Some hatch early and some hatch later, I think you have given up on the chicks too early. I have heard of many cases where the chicks didn't hatch until day 26 and were happy and healthy. Chicks that hatch late can be due to lower temperatures. Chicks that hatch early could be because of higher than normal temps. But, in any case, you should leave your incubator on to give those late hatchers a chance.