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Hi. I went out this afternoon to see feathers scattered all over the back field area.....looked and saw one of my light brahmas dead . Below is a graphic pic of her backside......just wondering if a hawk would do this? Or do you think it could have been another animal? It doesn't appear that...

I posted this in the guinea thread but also going to post it here for my fellow turkians..... Hi! I have a turkey hen and a guinea that have been at each other for a couple of days. Yesterday I caught the guinea in a net and just held it there for a timeout about 4 min.....it seemed to help...

Hi! I have a turkey hen and a guinea that have been at each other for a couple of days. Yesterday I caught the guinea in a net and just held it there for a timeout about 4 min.....it seemed to help for a time. Last night my hubby did lock up duty and didn't realize that the guinea and...

Unfortunately I just had my first experience with a hawk.... or at least this was the first time I observed an attack. It tried to take one of my large light brahma hens.... I was sitting in my office and thought I saw one of the guineas fly by the window (office is on the 2nd floor)...but...

If you have a BR male who mates with a BBB or BBW hen.....will you get a BBBR? I raised a few BBB hens for turkey dinner and liked the taste and size of the bird... so did my customer who bought one. Hubby also deep fried one of my BR males (around 6-8 months old at the time of slaughter)...

Hi. My turkey hens have been laying for about a month now. I seem to get about 3 eggs a day from my 6 gals..... just wondering how long I can keep them on the counter in a basket before they go bad? I used to refrigerate all my eggs right away until I read on here that if you don't wash them...

Just thought I'd mention this here.... I cleaned out my chicken coop this week.....very dusty since I hadn't done it for a while.... Anyhow, I had on my mask, head covering, boots, etc.....however, I neglected the 'eyewear', which isn't mentioned too much in coop cleaning... Yesterday...

I noticed my large roo isn't feeling well....not going by the ladies outside and just sitting down alot. So I went over to him this a.m. and when he got up I noticed his outside toe on each foot is chewed up looking.....looks awful and painful. He's also moulting. Anyhow.... was thinking...

I've got a few with toes like this..... is it because there is alot of gravel/rocks around and in the coop? I didn't notice them as much when they were younger but there are a couple with this.... different breeds also. They seem to walk normal and all and aren't acting sicklike....should I be...

I rarely hear my guineas making any type of noise..... is this normal? My chickens and turkeys make more noise than them .... and when I mean rarely, I mean a little chirp here and there..... even my frogs in my little pond are making noise...lol I have 5 that are almost 8 weeks old. ~Tammy

Hi. My first year for turkeys..... I've purchased a total of 11 bourbons from the local farmstore ....the first two were purchased on April 6th this year - 1 bourbon and 1 BBB..... the BBB is for our table and the bourbon was to be for my new flock start.... (they only had two left when I...

Hi. My 3 month old bourbon has made himself known that he is a he. Now he's starting to do his strutting around stuff on and off. I'm new to turkeys (first season) and have a question about this behavior... my one and a half year old grand daughter came into the coop last nite and was walking...

Just wondering what everyone is paying for a bag of turkey feed? What brands and types are you feeding your birds? I just bought a large bag of Purina Gamebird feed- I think it's called Startena 30% protein for $18.00. Owch...this turkey bird project is gonna hit the pocket book hard at...

At what age can you tell the sex of the bird? Currently I have one BB Bronze and one Bourbon red...both almost two weeks old. The bronze one is supposed to be our thanksgiving dinner and the bourbon red is going to be our pet. I'd have gotten more of them but that's all that was left at the...

I have a situation with a pullet that has been not herself the last couple of weeks..... she was 'hanging back' from the flock and sleeping in a nesting box at night which is why she caught my attention. About a week ago her comb and wattles started to have a bluish look to them like she isn't...

My first broody....I thought....hmmmmmm, I'm a chicken dummy but hey.....could this work? Soooooo on Dec. 10th I placed 6 freshly laid eggs directly from the nest and stuck them under her. I made my own 'nesting box' for her out of our old dog carrier. My first time at this and I was nervous...

Hello, I'm new here and also new to chickens. I have a Cochin Pullet (or so I think) that just started to crow. She was born around May 6th with 4 other Cochins which I know are Roos... She didn't start crowing until a couple of weeks after I removed the evil roos from my coop and stuck them...