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One of our Bourbon Red Turkey Poults looks like he's a bobble head turkey! Eating, Drinking, everything is fine... it just bobbles its head, worse when it had it's head down (pecking at the ground or feed) then stands up straight. We named it "Jiggy" simply the cutest little turkey. He has...

we just hatched chicks in our incubator. we took them out and put them in the brooder. Everything is the same as we have had chicks before. All of the sudden there was some very loud peeping, a chick was on it's back, started thrashing, died within minutes. Now we've lost 4 total. (of 23) Help...

I am looking for hatching eggs for pick up Sat 4/7 or Sat 4/14 in SW Pennsylvania area... What do you have available??? I'm looking to add some unique birds to our flock - pretty/unique looking and variety of egg sizes/colors. We raise buckeyes, black copper marans and a mixed flock of barred...

I have a black copper maran rooster that is 10 weeks old (today). He has been crowing and mating with the girls in his flock-same age - since 7 weeks old. His comb is very tall, waddles are hanging down, both bright red.. it's very obvious he is a rooster... Has anyone else had a rooster that...

I posted previously about our 9-10 week old Turkey hen - who is sick.. I have treated her with a .5cc injection of Tylan50 for 4 days with little improvement... This is the first time we've raised turkeys, new coop but their enclosed 40 x 40 run is ground where chickens free ranged previously...

I posted my problem on the turkey board a few days ago - no help. Last week I lost my 9 week old Bourbon Red hen. She was weak, slow moving, wings droopy, thin and smaller than the others. I brought her in the house for observation - she died 4 hours later. (poo was mostly white) This morning...

Today our 9 week old Bourbon red (female I think) died. I noticed a few days ago that she was moving a little slower and I resisted my intuition to bring her in for some TLC. She was only 1/2 the size of our other 5 turkeys, she was eating and drinking normally. Last night when I "tucked-in"...

Today we are setting eggs in our Hovabator 1588 with the automatic turning tray... Of course - I have a few extra fertile eggs We have had a few broody hens recently and broke them - I had my fingers crossed someone would be broody again, no luck. I noticed that there is enough extra space...

First time incubator hatchers, set our eggs on Thursday 3/3 at 6 pm (18 buckeye and 12 ameraucana) .. and we have a broody setting on 9 eggs since 3/2 2:40 am - I was woken from a sound sleep to a chirping - only to find that we had an early hatch! Today we would be going into lock down (day...

Finally - today we got our first green egg!!! We have on Easter Egger (said to be an americana, be we are not 100% sure) She is about 28 weeks old and I have been hoping that i'd get a green egg from her. I started thinking maybe she is already laying brown eggs (since I have 2 buckeyes laying...

Today there was a sick Raccoon and later a Mink in our yard. We are glad we killed the Mink after reading on here about what a threat they are to our girls.

We have a 20 week old chicken that is confusing us.. We had 2 identical chicks (from TSC) one developed into clearly a rooster (Picture #1, Chico Rooster) the other one is Larger in size, actually our largest chicken by far! Has tiny comb.. has little spur growths.. does not crow.. has not...

We have expanded our flock by 9 more today! 6 Ameracana and 3 guinea keeets! (we put them under our broody hen who is raising 4 buckeye chicks tonight, she took them! hopefully after spending a night with 9 more chicks and all will be okay in the morning, I will be in the brooder-coop before...

He is about 20 weeks old, TSC chick.. what Breed is he? We think he is so pretty...

Looks like a Roo? No crowing? We are really confused?!? 19-20 weeks old From TSC No Crowing Small Spur growths No Mating Similar in size to same age pullets that have been laying brown eggs for 2 weeks, never seen in nesting box. Larger Comb than same age pullets

Today at our local poultry Show/Swap (Uniontown, Pennsylvania) we became the proud owners of 3 Guinea Keets. I think one is a lavender, but out of pure excitement I totally forgot what the color the other 2 were.. any help would be appreciated. We snuck then under our Broody hen tonight (she...

I have 1 week old chicks (hatched/being raised by a broody momma) we only have 4 chicks (from 12 eggs).. and would like to add more chicks. Has anyone added additional chicks under a momma hen after her chicks hatched 1-2 weeks? (it would be so much easier since she has a separate coop/run for...

We got our Broody Hen 12 Buckeye eggs on 7/1, so today is day 11 for her clutch.. we candled them tonight and I think we have 11 (of 12) eggs with babies in them, so far.. it's our first time candling eggs to see how they are progressing.. one egg is solid black, so I marked on it, but left it...

I have a broody sitting on a clutch of 12 eggs... we are going to candle them tonight to see if there are any that aren't developing (they have been under her for 11 days) I know that we aren't going to have a 100% hatch, so if I wanted to get some day old chicks when hers are hatching, how many...

How can I determine which hens are not laying eggs? We have 18 Red Sex links. Last summer 15-17 eggs each day. This summer 6-9 per day. We have some younger hens that should start laying soon. Our plan is to cull our older hens. So how do I determine which hens are not laying? Thanks, Ray