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I know I know you are not supposed to free range meat birds all day. But all of my 9 birds are freerange from 6 am to 8pm and I felt bad shutting them away but now they are full grown they just need to fill out a little bit escpecialy in the breast area. So i made a great safe additional coop...

I got an egg from 1 of three hens ( I dont know which one). It was soft, broke and laid on the feed box. None of the hens cackled or was proud looking. I was so excite the next morning but I found nothing and the same thing happened the next morning and for about 3 weeks after. Is it wierd to...

One My geese has it's back toe\ talon clipped off suddenly and I dont know what happened. It walks fine but it is bloody and I dont want it to get infected. What should I do? And my geese do not care for being picked up so if its nothing to worry about it would be great! thanks

Tiltle basically explains it :) THANKS!!

I got my order in today and there was one duck "sleeping". It was still breathing but I could tell that it would not live long. Then that one died and then another and another and now one is "sleeping" again I'm afraid it will die. I've already called the hatchery and they told me to call back...

I love having my 4 BBB turkeys around but I just raised them for they're meat. So next year I'm thinking about getting Turkeys for laying ( thats my excuse, I just really want to keep the turkeys). I've heard that if you keep some meat breeds( like BBB or BBW) too long they have heat attacks or...

Hey, I just wanted everyone to know that RIver Otters can kill your flock. I was away for 45 minutes at 5:00 p.m. and in that amount of time it killed 19 three day old chicks and ducks. It did not even eat them. So I came into the coop with chcks bodies strewn all around. I have a very small...

Unknown breed of chickens and were hatched on May 13th. Packing peanuts from Ideal and there is 10 of them. Do some people butcher a few birds every few months? I would like to do this if you guys thinks it's recomendable, so they are fresher. Thanks for the feedback!!

All dead a couple skinned and a couple missing :(. I'm soo sad that was half of my flock and they were just wasted not even eaten. What predator does that? It had so be fairly big to lift a five-pound door. Any help would be much appriciated because I'm literally crying as I write this.

The title pretty much explains it but I do have a buddy with it. Should I even separate her? She was being thrown around a little bit by the ducks so I did. Will a chick die from it and how can i helped it?

I recieved 6 mille fleur d'unncle bantams along with other kinds of poultry yesterday this morning I went out to do chores and saw a chick with a broken leg I brought it inside with a buddy. So should i make a splint or just see how it does on one leg? It hops around fairly well but its slower...

So today I got my BBB turkeys (I ordered three) and when I saw the box I thought they gave me more than I asked for but it turned out the hatchery gave me 1 more turkey and 10 chickens so when I ordered three I got 14!! Haha I don't mind I have enough space and I really love chickens I already...

Any tips getting mine in a couple weeks? Are they good egg layers, do they go broody, are they good foster mothers and are they mean? Answers are much appreciated :) !!!

Wow, I was brainstorming ideas for a temporary outside closure and it hit me, an old trampoline. Trampolines dont last here long because of the wind so we have all the poles but no tarp for on top. So i put together the bottom poles and used the old net that was on the trampoline and wraped it...

when growing fodder for your chickens can you use corn seeds? when will the chicken be old enough to eat the fodder? Does the seed have to be soaked? Thanks for your feedback!

Raising ducks and chicks together, good or bad idea? I've heard mixed ideas on this, someone said that the ducks are some how harmful to chicks (and mille fleur d'unncle bantams) but i've also heard that they are fine to raise together.Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Should i take away fertile eggs and use an incubator or should i let the hen raise the chicks?? Which is less work? Which will hatch more of the eggs?

My next set of chicks will be coming in june and i have chickens (and geese) that'll be 2 months old in june should i build a roof or top on top of the starter box so the chickens wont fly in?

I recently got 2 week old chicks from a nieghbor and then the next day got mail order goslings. They didnt fight at first and even slept together but now the geese will peck at the chicks they don't do serious harm but the chicks are stressed. I've tried seperating them and the chicks like it...