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These are the testicles of a 6 month old Tom turkey. They are small and black. What’s wrong with them?

It's two weeks until I set some eggs. Is Activate Oxine good to clean the bottom parts of the incubator to get an extra clean incubator? I want to clean a Styrofoam incubator and a plastic incubator an R-Com. My hatch rates have gone down a little over the years so I think it's time for a good...

Can you help us figure out what to do with pg 12 in the first book. The title of the activity is Most PotHENtial. It is about picking a good hen but I just can't make heads or tails of it. Is there some place where I could find info about this topic? Or just the answers. Thanks

This time of the year? A 4h kid would like to get his ducks NOW. LOL crazy kid.

On a hot day. Lol The things we do for our chickens.

What would you do? The nest is off the ground, about 3 feet. Will she nest on the ground with them on her own? She needs to care for them on her own because I will be gone for a week sometime soon.

Do you get a better hatch with hatchery eggs? Is it worth the money to get eggs for a hatchery?

I've been asked to hatch eggs at the fair. Our fair is the first part of August and it is hot although not as hot as it is in the south. I'm in northeastern Montana. It does cool off at night but it is hot during the day. We also have severe thunderstorms that time of year. The building they...

I used the broomstick method on a hen the other day and it worked great. I have a year old rooster that needs to go. Will the broomstick method work ok with this leghorn rooster? Will his head be tougher to remove with a broomstick ? I hate to see my rooster go but he has started going after us...

I just got back from selling eggs and picking up chicks and I got to thinking about the money made and the cost of having chickens. I get about 3 dz eggs a day that I sell. I sell eggs for $2 a dz (I should get more I know). That is only $9 a day but when you start adding it up it does add up...

In my last 2 hatches I've had chicks with twisted toes. Last year I didn't have any. I switched to an Ecoglow brooder that I love but I wonder if it is hot enough for them. But lack of heat doesn't make since since the room they are in now is hot for me so I'm sure the brooder is hot enough...

I hatched eggs in the nursing home and things went kind of bad. during the hatch the humidity got down to 12. We ended up with 12 chicks out of 40 good eggs. But they asked me to do it again next year. They would help me get a better incubator. I would like one that has a big window so people...

Does anyone know a site where I can copy pictures of different types of feathers from? Our 4-h chicken group is doing a class on feather patterns, laced, barred, and so on. We could use some pictures to help us.

Can we put shoes on a feather footed chick with twisted toes? Will it help a chick who is a month old? He has had twisted for about 2 weeks.

I was thinking of putting a heating pad in a cooler in a cooler and topping the cooler with a blanket. I was thinking I would have to elevate the eggs off the heating pad by leaving them in cartons and putting a 2×4 under it to turn and elevate it. What do you think? I have some eggs the were...

Tomorrow we set chicken eggs at the nursing home with our 4-h group. We had one meeting to discuss what makes a good hatching egg. We checked out the size and shape of eggs, we checked eggs for fertility, and how to care for eggs you are going to hatch. We set 3 duck eggs last Sunday. I used...

I have a hen setting on eggs and it has been cold and snowing since a few days after we set her. The last 2 days we have found her sitting on other eggs and another chicken sitting on her eggs. We moved her today. We candeled her eggs and all but 2 were dark. We didn't look for movement as it is...

I just put chicks and a probe thermometer under the my new ecoglow 20 brooder and the temperature reads 88 to 93, Is that warm enough? The chicks seem fine. I am brooding in a plastic tub and I have a light blanket over it. The temp inside our house is 72.

It is still cold, 15 degrees F tonight, and will be cold while my Buff Orpington broods eggs and chicks. She is a big chicken. How many eggs would you let her sit on? I have around 12 under her right now. She just started sitting today. I figure some of the 12 eggs won't hatch, what do you...

I'm going to have some chicks on display at a nursing home. The home has a young cat living there I know I need a screen on the top and a viewing window on the side. I have an ecoglow brooder to put inside. Suggestions? Help!