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Thank you!

My own turkeys are mostly anti-pet, but my bourbon red hen is always down to hop up onto my lap for a nap or a pet or an affectionate nip at my fingers or to attempt to destroy the book I’m reading or my phone. I was even able to teach her the commands for up and down.

What beautiful birds!

Thank you for the help! I’ll keep that in mind for the future. He’s such a sweet boy, despite his bad vision. His other flock mates seem to know his bad vision and they always make sure to know where he is. I can always here them chirping back and forth. He has a habit of coming up to me and...

Decided to include some pictures of him with his “kids” (as we refer to them). Until I knew the young ones could take care of themselves, they lived separately, but now, they’re almost as big as him so they all live happily together. When they were small, he was allowed to see them with extreme...

I got a chicken two years ago that was said to be a sapphire gem. She’s very pale compared to my other two sapphire gems who have now passed. She has black splotches on her feathers (more now than is in the pictures, the pictures are the most recent I have of her but they’re from months ago). I...

I will avoid that hatchery in the future then. If he does have small eye syndrome, do you know if it will get worse over time? He can get around just fine now on his own and with his flock for now, but if it gets worse, I may want to plan for a future area that’s smaller and easier to navigate...

This is Grey, and I got him (and the rest of his first flock) in spring of 2018. He’s the only one of my original turkey flock that I still have after a devastating coyote attack. He (and now that he has a new flock, all of the rest of the turkeys do this as well) follows me around the yard like...

No, the blue slate with the small eyes is solid in coloring. My elder blue slate has black splotches, but his eyes are completely normal. I’m sure it’s likely just a birth defect. He’s wouldn’t be my only bird with one. I also have a young hen who was born with crooked hipbones that causes her...

Hey! This is my third (almost my fourth) year having poultry. All my birds are purely pets, but the extra eggs are nice, too. I have 27 chickens, 5 turkeys, 10 ducks, and 2 geese. Turkeys are my favorite animal in the world, and that’s about all you need to know about me.

Thank you for the reply. I’m not sure about his genetics because he came from a hatchery. He is quite a bit paler than my other blue slate, but that’s all I really know. His vision doesn’t seem to be getting worse, and other than his smaller eyes and his vision issues, he’s a perfectly nice and...

I got this chicken early last year and have yet to figure out her breed. The person who I got her from had no clue, and it’s been bugging me ever since

Not an emergency, just something odd that I’ve noticed about one of my toms. He’s a blue slate that I got back in late March. He’s my second blue slate, and my ninth turkey in total, and his vision is wonky. His eyes are small compared to everyone else, and his depth perception seems to be...