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After having turkey for a few years now, I've decided to go with a pure breeding flock and want to use Black Spanish Turkey. I don't want hatching eggs. Any recommendations for a breeder or hatchery to get a good foundation stock?

He is 2 1/2 to 3 months old.. I was told lavender, but I don't know what that's considered... I have 3 black Pied hens and 3 blue hens and got him for breeding. Is that considered a silver type gene? All the silvers I see look metallic cream

First, if I am truely this lucky.. I will be shocked. I have a pen with 5 barred rock hens and one cuckoo Maran hen with one lavender Ameraucana Rooster. Although he is solid lavender, I test bred him with a silver duckwing and I know he also has a gene for birchen. None of the barred/cuckoo...

I know that question sounds stupid.. But I can't seem to find the answer to it. I have two drakes hatched April 24 that are mallard Rouen cross and one mallard Cayuga cross. They are approximately 15 weeks old and do not completely have their adult feathers and yet they seem to be successfully...

I've never had more than two roosters and this year I'm attempting to keep 7. They live mostly in a 35'×70' fence with several coops and perching spots including trees. I let them out to free range after 5 pm on days that I know I'll be home. I've had problems with some flock members roaming if...

I just picked up some silkie hens from a breeder selling out. I got this one she says is 7 months old but she's not 100% sure its a pullet because she hasn't laid yet... Any ideas??? I know the black one is a hen because the two babies came free with her.. Also.. What color is she??

I thought I'd start a thread to keep up with my concept chicken. I know certain characteristics (ingredients) that I want.. And I've started putting together my foundation flock. This is a very rough incomplete draft of what I'm going for. Must be: - 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall and very erect posture...

I realize this may require quite a few birds in the test group. But if I were to compile a group to breed a cockerel to so that I could then hatch out chicks to record the down color and adult plumage to see what HIS make-up was, what would be your "dream team". Taking the scenario a step...

I have a chicken that is suppose to be a clean legged breed that has two feathers on one of her legs. Is this a common mutation and is it something that I should consider culling herbfrom my breeding program over? She has many very favorable traits and thus far this would be her biggest variation.

I have a young cockerel who is just turning into a rooster. 20 weeks old tomorrow. He's been crowing and mounting for a few weeks. I noticed today that when he grabs the hens to mate and they struggle and get away, he eats any feathers that get inadvertently pulled out. He searches the ground...

On the pullet to the left, what color pattern is along her neck? She is a Malay 19 weeks old.

I just hatched a chick off a lavender ameraucana roo and a silver duckwing Phoenix hen. Is that a cross that can be feather sexed? If so I have long pin feathers so its a pullet?? I know Phoenix are fast feathering but I'm not sure if ameraucana are considered slow feathering.. Ill take better...

Are cockerels sexual mature before they crow or after or somewhere during the process? I have a Phoenix roo that is 17 weeks old and has been trying pitifully to crow for two weeks.. It sounds pitiful and yet I have a dark cornish hatched the same day that I've seen on top of our older hens...

This is my first time using an incubator for poultry and im so nervous.. My first lockdown started today and while it's only two eggs both have lots of veins and appropriate size dark spots and air pockets.. My question is how long after death does of take for the veins to degrade? I don't...

Its a mottled houdan 4 weeks old. I know i'll have to start filing the upper beak, but what should i go about the fleshy growth under the bill? I just got the little guy today and am bent on saving it.. The previous owner said it gets larer and smaller and she noticed it forming about a week ago.

Hes weak but i can get him to swallow water.. Can this be patched or should i put him down?

I've read that there are two types Pea (P or p) and Single (S,s) and that Pea is dominant over Single.. I know Walnut comes from having at least one dominant P and S in a bird and that to get single there must be (p,p)(s,s) but what about flat combs and buttercups? The only thing I can find is...

They are 9 weeks old.. Any help would be appriciated!

Ive been getting 9-14 eggs a day since around november of last year from my 12 hens hatched last may. Over the last week ive only been able to collect about 4 a day. I know my broody modern game will poke a hole in any eggs laid in her nest, but shes innocent as shes barely come off her eggs in...