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Please record the total number of males you have, then specify how many are in with the females. Perhaps include the breeds and the amount of space you have for the males in with the females as both of these factors can greatly effect the amount of roosters you can have together with girls. I am...

A pair of Standard Bronzes and a Narragansett hen, all four months old. They are friendly and love treats. The Narragansett is the friendliest and is the most wary of predators. They have free ranged all their life, and unfortunately do not want to stay out of the neighbor's yard. I can not...

Yesterday, my favorite turkey, Toadstool, died from Blackhead, something I have been battling with because my turkeys and chickens free range together. He was a Black Spanish tom, four months old. I did something I had not done before with a dead bird - I skinned him and gave him to the dogs...

I have recently acquired five Cornish x White Rock pullets from a neighbor. They are ten weeks old and have been fed like a meat bird their whole life until I got them. I am in the process of slimming them down through free ranging and a restricted diet. Three are bigger with reddened comb...

A day or two ago, I am not exactly sure when, I noticed my four - month - old Gold Laced Sebright pullet was walking with a limp and holding up her right leg. By that evening, she had to use her wings to hold herself up and keep her balance. She could fly to the 3 foot roost but could not...

Do turkey poults really need medicated feed? And if so, why? The guy I have make my feed was flipping when I told him not to medicate my turkey grower. I figured they would develop their own immune system stronger if they were not medicated.

His name is Nilo and he is my baby; the first rooster I got when I started my own flock last march. He is my favorite, but most of my hens are bantam and he is just so big. He lost all the points off of his comb last winter, but he is a gentleman - dances and tidbits for the girls, is never...

On April 21st, I got three, three-year-old geese from a friend of my older sister. She said they were Africans, two geese and a gander. When my mother picked them up, she realized that she knew the people who owned them. They used to own a hoard of horses, housing them in a mud pit pasture full...

I have two age groups of ducks. The oldest group of five are three black Swedish hens, a Black Swedish drake (Accolon), and a Blue Swedish drake (Gareth), all March babies. The second group was born in June and consists of five hens- a Khaki Campbell, a Cayuga, and three Welsh Harlequin; and two...

I have twelve ducks and twenty-five chickens. Both male and female, varied ages, some molting. They free-range, but with winter and all they are likely not getting much. They are on some kind of grower with supplemental, free-choice calcium. Can someone tell me how much food I should be going...

My female Collie x White Shepherd puppy is giving the chickens a rough time. Chasing and occasionally killing and playing with them and other such bad things. My mother suggested that if I had large geese they would attack her if she attempted to be dastardly. All supervised, of course. I have...

My bantam black australorp pullet went broody when she laid her third egg at 6 months old. Her first clutch I did not know about until I found a bunch of her eggs in the creek with half developed chicks in it. I am not sure what the story was there, but she definitely had been incubating them...

My bantam black australorp pullet went broody when she laid her third egg at 6 months old. Her first clutch I did not know about until I found a bunch of her eggs in the creek with half developed chicks in it. I am not sure what the story was there, but she definitely had been incubating them...

I got a female Border Collie x White Shepherd puppy I named Clover about a month ago to help protect the flock. The first night, I showed her the chickens and let her sniff them, and she seemed genuinely uninterested. I had been advised that the best way to get her acclimated to the chickens and...

My 5 month old Game Bantam x Silkie pullet, Persephone, had been missing when I did a head count of the upstairs coop before bed. There were ten, when there was supposed to be eleven. All the eggs from the upstairs and downstairs coops were missing for the day, so I figured I had another broody...

I have a Buff Laced Sebright named Dove. She is not cold hardy at all. I do not know if it is just her, or the whole breed, but she just can not take the chill. She fluffs up and stands on one foot, or lays down. She closes her eyes and tries to huddle against anything. At first I thought she...