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Butchering them is quite simple if you have done a chicken its the same process just a little bigger. Boil some water defeater it cut away lol.you will need to feed it other than grass. A good flock grower.

They should be ok outside in a pen as long as the night time temperature doesn't fall to drastically at night. They don't fair well in the rain so make sure you have a roost with cover to sleep, relax in . Could always put a heat lamp in the pen at night just to be safe. I live in Florida so I...

I too recently had a hawks take some out of my flock. Sorry to hear about yours. I just purchased a great Pyrenees dog. They are breed for livestock protection and hate hawks they will be a loving pet are great with children kind of a gentle giant. Hope that helps

Yes I do it's not pretty but I'm going to buy a Rubbermaid shed. It's actually pretty big and make it into a coop trying to make my yard look different than others.

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that is strange what breed are they and are you sure ?

Turn on its back and open the chest feathers gently and look for a beard stub it will be their as early as six weeks. No more trying to figure it out.

Hold your turkeys and go through the chest gently. Look for a little tiny start of the beard. It will be very clear as to what it is. I see tons of opinions and questions on how to sex turkeys. This is pretty fool proof. You can sometimes find a tiny beard under their as early as 6 weeks. Hope...

Might not have clipped it deep enough. I had to cut mine twice same problem. Not the same as a chicken wing good luck.

If you know what your looking for you can find the start of the beard at 6 weeks. Hens won't have it but a young Tom will. You'll have to move some feathers around on the chest. It's pretty darn accurate. I looked at all these threads and nobody ever says to do this. Once they have feathers it...