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My peacock is 5 months old. He was raised with a Royal Palm turkey and I let her out today to hang out in the pasture with the other turkeys and chickens. My peacock is pacing back and forth in the run making a honking sound. I know he’s upset (I’ll put the turkey back with him later) but I...

Help! My peacock got loose from the coop and is up on my donkeys stall. He’s never been loose before!

I’ve got one white breasted turkey that has access to the chicken coop (10x10) which is also in the pasture with my donkeys. I cannot get the turkey to sleep in the coop. She insists on sleeping on the large round hay bale that is wrapped in a hay net. I’m afraid that one day she will get her...

This isn’t a good photo because it didn’t want me holding it but I noticed this purple line has shown up on its beak/between its eyes. It could have possibly injured it on something in the brooder it was in (we moved them to a large outdoor brooder today because they outgrew the previous one)...

My 3 week old peachick started running up to my Turkey poult fanning its tail feathers yesterday and it cracks me up!

I THOUGHT I got two turkeys but I’ve just been informed that the one is a peafowl. Tell me all I need to know because I know nothing about peafowl. I’ve got chickens, guineas and a rescued broad breasted turkey that lives ON my donkey (that was not a typo. She rides on him all day and roosts on...

I got two Royal Palm turkey poults the other day. They were the last two the seller had but one doesn’t have a snood at all. It doesn’t appear that the area has been pecked and I feel nothing. Is that common?

Would a hawk cause this kind of noise on my coop? We had a hawk hanging around last week and now the chicken off to the right is missing. I don't see her on anymore security videos after this one. No feathers are anywhere to be found and nothing seems out of the ordinary. Something hit the roof...

I've owned Guineas before many years ago for a short time but we rehomed them to my friends farm because at that time I knew nothing about them and we lived in a neighborhood where the homes are practically on top of each other. Yeah, big mistake. We recently moved to 10 1/2 acres and I would...

We just moved from a home in a neighborhood on 1/2 an acre to a home on 11 acres. We have the coop and run up and just brought our chickens to the new house. I currently have them closed up in their 10x10 coop. At our old house we would let them free range on days when we were home all day and...

My dream of moving to a home with land is finally happening! We will be moving from 1/2 acre to 10 1/2 acres! There is no coop or barn but my husband plans on building one. Is there any kind of cheap, temporary place for my current chickens to live? I currently have 7 middle age-elderly hens. It...

My 10 year old Polish hen has been slowing down the past few months. I attributed it to old age. A few days ago I was sure she was dying. She would just lay in the grass and not move. When she stands her head slowly starts to droop and she looks like she will fall forward but she always stops...

I am at a loss as to what happened yesterday. We've used the 5 gallon buckets as nesting boxes for about 4 years now and never had any problems. Yesterday I went out to collect any eggs and when I opened the coop door, the bucket was standing up, upside down which was weird. I went to turn it...

Do you use traps, poison or both to get rid of mice and rats? DH wants to put out poison, but I hate to do that because we did that years ago in the building at the back of our property and the mouse ended up in our HOUSE dead between the walls. We had a horrible smell for about a week before we...

So after catching 3 possums and a skunk this week, DH is finally raising the coop. He's got it about a foot off the ground now and just texted me a picture. There is a whole pile of eggs up under there and tons of feathers from the chickens that were killed. What would hoard eggs but not eat them?!

I have an android tablet and would love to just be able to get a simple video camera to monitor the coop. Having no experience with them, which would you recommend? How easy are they to set up? It sounds like it may be complicated. I'm determined to find out what all is snooping around my coop...

A few nights ago, I found one of my chickens decapitated and drug up under the building partway. I couldn't find the head anywhere. Then yesterday when I went in the coop to feed the chickens, there was another decapitated one in there with feathers from another one all over the place. The 2nd...

I was just cooking supper and when I cracked one of my EE's eggs, there was a greenish/grayish ball thing in it the size of a pea. In fact, it looked just like a pea...only a bit more pale in color. I picked it out and it was gooey....not hard. A co-worker said there was one in one of the eggs I...

An ex co-worker made me the cutest candy dish last year for Christmas using a plastic yellow chick feeder screwed onto the top of a mason jar and then decorated and filled with M&M's. I want to make some for friends and family but I'm having a heck of a time finding then in colors besides red or...

We have skunks all over our neighborhood. My dogs were going nuts one night when I let them out, so I went outside to see what they were barking at. I saw something walking around outside of the chicken coop, got close to it and realized it was a baby skunk. I freaked out at first and ran away...