Posts by spish

so most of my turkeys lost their nest of eggs to an egg eating Turkey.....now my question is will they lay again this year and try again to raise a brood or will that be it till next year? no young turkeys for me this year?

so all 6 of my Turkey hens were on nests (of between 12 - 16 eggs each) but each day i noticed eggs were missing..thinking they were accidently being broken or so. until yesterday i caught one of my buff Turkey hens pinch an egg out of...

so for the past few weeks we've been getting 30ish eggs a day...but this week thats dropped down to just 8 per day....because all the blooming hens are going broody (although they've got nothing to sit on!!)   ive managed to...

all 7 of my hens are now laying, 2 have made nests and are sitting...the other 5 seem to 'use' the others nests to lay in then walk away...i take out the extra eggs every day but would like for another hen to start sitting..should i...

so one of my newest turkeys has gone broody. she was already laying when we picked her up last week (previous owner said she'd laid about 6) and now she's laid 4 here and decided to get comfy and down to buisness. i have so many other...

marans..but he died over the winter and i just cant seem to find another marans in the area

what chicken breeds give dark eggs apart from marans?

We run a 'Rooster Rescue' here..we currently have 29 of the buggers (yeah..my neighbours love me ha ha ha!) will round them up for a photo shoot tomorrow :)

  i wouldnt call them dark...but they are not that light either....

last year i had my first try at producing some olive-eggrs....much to my despair all the hens we hatch from the cross laid blue eggs...one hen never laid.   that is until today..the little late bloomer has started laying...and...