Posts by jd_odell

All hens in those pics.  No curls to be seen anywhere.  One drake in with those ladies and you've got yourself a happy drake!   

Yes, agree on the food.  We have decided on a different feeding program and we have also determined that some aged seeds (sorghum and millet) we mix with the cracked corn and crumble may have been a determining factor as...

We lost our juvenile (~1 yr) drake cinnamon teal yesterday.  My wife found him floating on his side in the duck pool having difficulty holding up his head.  His mate and the drake/hen green wing teal that share the duck pen...

Well....5 of the 8 eggs survived the flood.  Three pipped yesterday night....Hen stepped on one and crushed it, we pulled the other two and hatched them out in a makeshift incubator.  They are doing fine as of 0200.  The...

We received in excess of 6 inches of rain yesterday morning/yesterday.  It started around 0400, and the turkeys were checked at 0830.  The coop was in 2-3 inches of standing water, and one of our hens was frantically trying to...

Hello,My wife and I haven't delt with turkeys before. We are going to raise wild Easterns. We have a breeding pair, and the tom (aka TOM) is very active. The hen has laid about 7 eggs so far....one daily. She has gathered her eggs into a...

My wife and I are the new parents of two Royal Palms, a Black Spanish, and a regular Bronze....all hens.  All are around 9-12 mo of age according to the farmer we purchased them from.  We have had them about three weeks now,...