Naked Neck/Turken Thread

Hi! I was curious about breeding my turken to my silkie roo, how exactly should I do that?

There are a couple methods that come to mind but the most facile scenario would be to: Put the breeder-birds in solitary but amply spaced confinement...then stand back and get out of the way. During the roughly 30 days required to be comfortable that the two have 'done-the-deed' on many occasions and you have checked for egg fertility...it's now time to make up your mind what sort of incubator you need, provided you do not have a reliable brood hen that is prepared to be cooperative.

Good Luck!
 
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May I ask (since I'm building stuff) - what size enclosure do folks generally recommend for a single pair breeding? Trios? Quads?

My birds (esp. the boys) are REALLY good at escape/fence jumping, so there's a chance that I may choose to keep them confined for a period (not certain, just considering it).

- Ant Farm
 
May I ask (since I'm building stuff) - what size enclosure do folks generally recommend for a single pair breeding? Trios? Quads?

My birds (esp. the boys) are REALLY good at escape/fence jumping, so there's a chance that I may choose to keep them confined for a period (not certain, just considering it).

- Ant Farm

While dimensions may vary considerably, the most important thing is to have a pen that is totally secure...including a stout pen cover.
 
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Oh, that is a given. Assuming that...?

Edit to add: Currently I'm building a few tractor coops from a pattern I like a lot - they're 6x10. Nicely secure, entirely covered with HW cloth with tarp or shade cloth overlay. I use 2 ft of HW cloth extending around the entire boundary as well, to protect form digging. I want to use these (with or without temporary fenced paddock outside of them).
 
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There are a couple methods that come to mind but the most facile scenario would be to: Put the breeder-birds in solitary but amply spaced confinement...then stand back and get out of the way. During the roughly 30 days required to be comfortable that the two have 'done-the-deed' on many occasions and you have checked for egg fertility...it's now time to make up your mind what sort of incubator you need, provided you do not have a reliable brood hen that is prepared to be cooperative.

Good Luck!

my roos don't need 30 days. they say 30 sec are plenty, lol.
 
Hi! I was curious about breeding my turken to my silkie roo, how exactly should I do that?

Wine...chocolates...mood lighting...maybe some romantic music....

Or better yet, follow @hellbender 's advice. He's more experienced at this than I am.
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One of my fm girls (the only one that lays green eggs) disappeared w/o a trace. I have walked the entire yard and all fence areas no sign of attack, no feather pile nothing. I don't think she is broody somewhere b/c we have been getting eggs from her before her vanishing. She was one of my favorites, very dark fm and tiny pea comb. So all her eggs went in the bator, since there was room to spare, no sense in running a 20 egg bator w/ just 6 eggs right??????? so I filled 'er up. Really hoping before the end of the 21 days someone decides to go broody.
 
Thank you! I've no idea what the color is called. Maybe @Kev can help with that, as I'm really bad with the color description terminology. This particular pen was just a temporary holding pen and was still under construction at the time, measuring about 3-4 feet wide and 6 feet deep. (Everything on my property is pretty much always under construction.) A week after I took this photo I moved Copper outside and he selected my layer flock as his, serving as their only rooster since I had to cull the original Barred Rock rooster that had turned people aggressive. The pen in this photo is one of the ones in my cabin, which holds two large pens and two small pens along with a large dog kennel that I used for broody, injured, and ready-to-cull birds to keep them isolated. Since this photo was taken I cut out the rest of the pop door, added a nesting box (actually a covered cat litter box with pine bedding inside), and turned it into my temporary bantam pen. It was also used by my broody White Rock while she raised her clutch of chicks. The white walls are simply 1/8 inch thick wall board like what dry erase boards are made out of. The pen wall are 2/x4 construction covered with 1/4 inch mesh hardware cloth. I don't really have any recent photos. Sorry. But I can supply a photo of one of the larger pens that might show a bit more of the construction.
Great. I always loved that pens inside of a building.
 

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