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I had a quail fly off. I finally found him, but got cocky about his inability to get out of the net. Maaco got him, but didn’t try to eat him. I caught him, and got him in the pen. It was a fun five minutes.
What space do they need in a coop? Chickens rule of thumb is 2 sq ft per bird, so I'll have 50sq ft extra in my new coop. How much sq ft do turkeys need?
Chickens need 4 ft.² inside. Unless they are bantams. I figured 6 ft.² for the turkey, and used a tote as a nest box.
I was always told 4 Sq ft of floor space per LF chicken (half that for bantams) and 10 Sq ft per turkey (coop) with 12" roost space per chicken. For run space, 10 Sq ft per chicken and probably 25 sq ft per turkey. That being said, i think that's for birds that are cooped all the time. I routinely break those amounts (for the chickens) but they free range all day, every day
New here. Anyone in NW PA?
Welcome! I'm in northern Chester Co, very close to Berks. If you need more chicks, ducks, turkeys, etc, let me know. I have lots to sell right now.
Spending a muggy afternoon in the coop babysitting a new broody. She is a sex link (sold as an australorpe by rural king, go figure) and is only about 10 months old. She has been faithfully sitting for almost 4 weeks. She got kind of freaked when we sold most of the birds out of her coop last weekend and then moved in a new rooster and 2 hens to that coop and run. There was plenty of space and the new ones weren't bothering her directly, in fact they pretty much ignored her, it just upset her zen or something, lol. So today was hatch day for some incubator eggs we had set. Broodies do all of the raising but DH built a great incubator last year to allow us to hatch important eggs inside and give the newborns to the hens. With so many hens trying to brood together it helped avoid egg arguements, lol. Some of our best old girls still get a real clutch but the incubator evens the numbers for everyone....
Anyway, I am rambling.... lol. We set about a 18-20 eggs from our hens hoping for a few more of the mixed girls like we got last year. They have been awesome hens and definitely good for our self sustaining flock goal. Our white rock roosters are aging so I wanted eggs while we could from them. Only about half were fertile, but probably was good since we only have 1 hen who has been sitting over 3 weeks right now. Although we do have 3 more parked from 7 days to 2 weeks.
So back to the sitting girl. I really want sure how she would be about chicks but so far so good. She is talking to them and hasn't shown any agression with them so maybe her nerves and hormones will settle and she will get her broody back, lol. Fingers crossed! I dont want to have to try to graft them to another hen and I should have about 20 silver pencil chicks next week to give to the other hens anyways. View attachment 1760725
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And of course Mindy is helping keep an eye on things.
My favorite little black hen has gone missing I released all the breeding pens yesterday and by yesterday afternoon I couldn't find her anywhere. No feathers, nothing. I'm hoping that she'll turn up but it's unlikely. She had issues with recurring wry neck and I think she got disoriented and wandered off. She was the one who would snuggle up to my legs every morning for love and hugs and would close her eyes and just soak it in. I hope I find her but it's not looking good.