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Hi All So we had an interesting situation early this fall. One of our hens surprised us with a poult. We free range our birds during the day time, and allow them to either roost in the evenings, or pen them up for protection from predators. One of our hens had gone missing sometime in early...

Hi All Quick question here: So my husband is a special education teacher at a local high school and he teaches a life skills science class. In May, they incubated a few of our turkey eggs. 5 of the 7 hatched early June and we kept two poults and gave the additional 3 to a farmer friend of ours...

Hi All - My husband and keep a pretty large garden each summer. Last year, we encountered a large amount of cucumber beetles. These nasty critters feast on any type of cucurbits in your garden (squash, melons, cucumbers). Our Zucchini and Cucumber crops were heavily damaged. While we have a...

Hi there We currently have two hens and have been eager to get a Tom to breed them. I'm sure that the ladies will be a little bit territorial with the new guy, but do we have to worry about the same type of fighting exhibited between two males? Or will they adjust to him relatively quickly...

Hi All - Quick question: I'm currently raising two ducklings in a brooder with a heating plate. They're in the basement of our garage, where they're protected from the elements and extreme temperature fluctuations. They're 4 weeks old this week, and I've found that, despite making the heating...

Hi All I've run into an issue with my two royal palm turkey hens. About 2 months back the girls started laying eggs. Initially, neither one cared to do anything more than step on them! Then suddenly, the one hen went broody. We waited to see if she'd come out of it (the eggs aren't fertile as...

Hi All We are considering moving our existing duck enclosure to new spot on our property. We have a variety of natural springs throughout the property, and one happens to run near the yard. I was considering building the duck enclosure around one of these smaller natural springs (it would give...

Hi All Looking for some insight here. My husband and I live in western PA. We have two Royal Palm turkeys that we've raised from Poults on our farm. Since they moved outside last August, they had been living in a dual-purpose flight pen that we also housed pheasant in (surprisingly, everyone got...

Hi all - I recently adopted 3 female muscovy ducks - a friend of mine's father was raising them, and had no time to tend to them, and asked if I would like them. When he delivered them, they looked pretty scraggly - two were hearty, just filthy, but the third was smaller, with very thin feathers...

Hi All We're recently moved our pheasants out into their flight pen at 6 weeks old. Even with careful care taken while building the flight pen, we had a breach of the wire by a raccoon the other night. While the pest didn't make it into the pen, he did yank one bird through the wire and ate it...

We have 3 Coturnix Quail that we purchased from a local farmer last year. Ironically, it started as a purchase for the purpose of training our bird dog puppy, as the farmer was selling the adult quail for $2/bird since they were older and unlikely to breed anymore. The three females we have...

Hi All My husband and i have two royal palm turkey poults (7 weeks old) and 8 pheasant chicks (about 6 weeks old). Needless to say, it's time to move them outside, and we're pretty excited to have our garage back! The poults and chicks have been raised side-by-side in XL wire dog crates, so...

Hi All- I'm new to the turkey world! I recently purchased two Royal Palm Turkey Poults (approx 2 weeks old). When I first brought them home just on Friday, I had them in a larger rubbermaid bin as their brooder. We noticed that the larger poult was pecking the beak of the smaller poult -...

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