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Hi :-) New to raising turkeys this year and thinking about building them their own coop. Got to them kinda by accident. Got one at the feed store on a whim, sadly little clueless drowned in the duck pond, and kinda fell in love with it. Kid got so upset after losing clueless, who pretty sure...

Hey, I picked up this little guy/girl at a local feed store. It only said “mixed turkeys “. This is my first turkey, I put him in with my ducklings and goslings. Anyone have an idea what breed it could be??? Thank you :-)

I am so in love with them! Very happy that everything is going smoothly, almost feel silly now that I questioned their parenting skills ;-) Mrs. Goose, Hugo and Lefty the sidekick

My American Buff yearling hatched 7 eggs yesterday. I have two ganders that bonded with her and another female that sits on a nest. Today the goslings and mom are out and about eating, drinking and enjoying the day. The Gander, Hugo, seems to try keep order and pecks at the little ones, don't...

I am so happy for Mrs. Goose, so far there are 5 little goslings……. hope I will get better pictures soon. Very protective of her nest and the the two ganders take their job very serious as well ;-)

My yearling American Buff started to sit on her nest today!!!!!! She has been laying for about 2 weeks and in the beginning I removed the eggs and replaced with fake ones and marked her eggs. Yesterday I put the 5 newest ones back in the nest, think she might have layer another one yesterday and...

I have 2 pair of American Buff that I got last spring. The 2 females just started laying, each one has her own nest. The two ganders seem to have bonded just with one female. They follow her around and stand guard when she is laying eggs in the nest, they couldn't care less about the other...

I got 2 pairs of American Buff last year in spring. One of the females has started laying eggs in the outdoor nesting house (little A-Frame with straw in it). She is laying a egg a day. So far I took them out of the nest since it is still freezing in the night and sometimes during the day and...

One week ago I was doing my morning chores in the coop and heard a scratching noise behind a wall space. I had to clim up on the roost bars and reach way back behind a wall space to pull out my bantam white faced black spanish chicken which I thought just fell accidentally back there trying to...

Do I have a case of gender identity crisis????? Yesterday I saw my female white layer duck mating my female indian runner in the pond. She almost drowned that poor thing!!!! Both are definitely female, no doubts about that. I have two drakes and my white layer is definitely not one, she is the...

I have two pair of American Buff, almost 5 month old. Hugo, who is the biggest of the two male and kinda the alpha seems to be "off" since yesterday. They are in a big fenced in orchard/pasture with 7 ducks and since yesterday he mostly just lays in the grass. He doesn't come to the fence when I...

I got 5 ducks (and 2 ganders) end of April, they are 25 1/2 weeks old now. 2 of them are indian runners, 1 swedish, 1 white layer hybrid and 1 brown layer hybrid. One of them is laying for about 3 weeks now, I am pretty sure that it is one of the runners. I get about 4-5 eggs a week. She lays 2...

Here are some pictures of my duck and geese house from different angles. The big open front faces south and the side with the little window faces east so they should be protected from winter storms. The window is just wire no glass so lots of ventilation…… There are three nesting boxes for the...

Here are some pictures of my geese and duck house from different angles. The big open front faces south and the side with the little window faces east so they should be protected from winter storms. The window is just wire no glass so lots of ventilation…… There are three nesting boxes for the...

I have 5 female ducks (and 2 ganders). They are about 20 weeks old and one of them is laying for about 2 weeks now. I build them 2 nesting boxes but so far every morning the eggs was waiting for me in the middle of the coop on the floor. I know that the ducks check out the nesting boxes because...

Thinking way ahead here ;-) We got some ducks and geese this year and I am in love with them! We have them fenced in in our newly planted orchard with a coop for the night that they share. We lock them up every night since we have lots of raccoons and opossums. Once it gets dark they all go in...

My American Buffs turned 18 weeks and are starting to be all grown up. I got them from Metzers and they are supposed to be 2 males and 2 females. I am a little bit confused about the lobe / belly fat and if that is a indicator of gender. First year with geese so I still have to learn ;-) Here...

My ducks just turned 17 weeks today and I found 2 eggs in the coop this morning!!!! So excited !!!!! Had them for breakfast and they were yummy :-) Now we just have to have a talk about proper use of nesting boxes. I knew they were getting close to laying so I got them 3 nesting boxes with hay...

My chickens recently had a mite problem and I dusted them with Sevin Dust. I dusted them twice, 10 days apart. Today I checked them over if there is still a problem since some of them look still a little bit "scruffy" and their feathers on their back/hind are still fluffed up (don't know how...

I have 3 Indian Runners and 1 Swedish Duck that are 3 weeks old. They are just starting to get their feathers in. At what age do they develop their quaking? From what I was reading this would be a lot earlier for sexing then waiting for the curly drake feather. First year with ducks so...