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This is an old post, so you may not see this, but how do you heat your kiddy pool? I was thinking of using a bucket warmer (it has a wand shape).

Our drakes (2) will eat a scratch feed mixture.

I got a batch of chicks this past summer that had at least 4 like your white one with some black spots (only two survived the hatching) and they were all quite large. The two survivors are now 26 weeks, and though I had suspected one was a rooster, they are both hens. One has yellow legs, and...

We have a runt turkey now, too. I am wondering if it is just "special needs". I have noticed that sometimes birds don't act quite like the others. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, just not as persistent to eat. It goes off by itself a lot.

Our runt ended up growing as big as a Plymouth Rock, I believe. Or, as big as any of the Cornish Crosses can get. I guess she was just a late bloomer.

I thought I would update in case it helps anyone. I switched over to using the ACV with my feed instead of kefir for a few days, and the stink has gone down a bit. All the 8 look great and are thriving. I happened to see that they are bigger than my brother's 8 turkeys from the same chick...

I've been using kefir as the culture to ferment my turkey feed for 9 white turkeys. I'm up to week 7. I lost one yesterday to what I guess was hexamitiasis judging from the symptoms. I caught it kind of late, I think. Maybe I could have saved her if I had seen her weight loss earlier...

I tried this (fermenting with the bucket in a bucket with apple-cider vinegar) with my 50 broiler chicks and used one 50# bag of starter in about 14 days. I fermented the regular feed for a few days and then quit when they had been on pasture for a couple of days. The chicks did great and we...

Well, ours have all made it through a few weeks of horrid heat. I decided to separate out the smallest hens to another pen to see if they would gain a bit better without the competition of the bigger more aggressive birds. The runt is with 6 or 7 other hens now, so it remains to be seen.

Mine is 7 weeks old and about a sixth of the size of the birds that have gained normally. I've read about runts in Salatin's "Pastured Poultry..." and he thought they were just small because they were from pullet eggs or birds that were too old--called them quail sized. My dad said he thinks...

Is the pull string on the outside to raise and lower the ladder?

My husband and I just bought a farm and began raising some animals. We have two flocks of laying hens (Rhode I. Reds and Plymouth Barred Rocks) Two calves, and 54 broiler chickens. Goats are next. We home school our 4 children (just graduated our oldest). I am glad to join BYC because I know...

I've got one, too. I watched her and she hardly even looks at the feed in the pen. I want to know how to get her to eat.