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    springtime post your new chick pics

    My buff-laced polish (I have 6) and jersey giant chicks (I have 4) that I picked up from Performance Poultry.
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    Help!Neighbour just brought me 11 wild turkey eggs from abandoned nest

    Thanks. From what I have read online and heard from others, we have not violated any laws in our area. It is my understanding that if they were not considered a game bird, then it would be illegal. Wild turkeys were re-introduced to our area and have since risen to unprecedented numbers and...
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    Help!Neighbour just brought me 11 wild turkey eggs from abandoned nest

    Spook, Oh, I didn't even think about that. I will look into that for my area. The turkey was definitely already sitting prior to being disturbed.
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    Help!Neighbour just brought me 11 wild turkey eggs from abandoned nest

    Thank you! Can I put all 11 eggs under one hen? Something just came up in a google search saying that a hen can handle 4 or 5 turkey eggs only. If so should I try 1/2 of them in the incubator and 1/2 under the hen? Or set up 2 nests? I've never seen a wild poult. But I never expected our...
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    Help!Neighbour just brought me 11 wild turkey eggs from abandoned nest

    I really need some voices of experience. I hope it's not too late for these eggs. The neighbouring farmer was plowing his field for potatoes and the turkey had her nest at the edge of the field. He slowed down as he came towards her hoping she wouldn't leave but she did at the last moment...
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    2 hatched, but I'm not entering our incubator in a contest!

    Thanks for the encouragement. Keisha, yes, I think you are right that if we added a CPU fan we would probably have better results. DH and I noticed that a lot of homemade plans included one, but left the final decision up to the boys who didn't understand why we would need one. I think that...
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    2 hatched, but I'm not entering our incubator in a contest!

    My 11 y.o. son and his buddy got my husband to build an incubator with them for their science fair project. They found plans for a large still air incubator made from wood. My husband bought all of the parts that it called for, costing him about $50 to build it (the other boy's family...
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    My wife got eggs from the store

    When my hens weren't laying well, I had to buy some eggs, I bought regular store eggs for baking, but I couldn't do it for breakfast, so I bought farm eggs from the local farm store.
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    Does anybody here have any Chanteclers?

    Today, at 29 weeks 6 days, 3 of my 5 chanteclers are sitting in the nesting boxes! One of them even muscled her way in with one of the laying Catalanas. Dare I be hopeful?
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    Chicken Names!

    Oh I just remembered that we have 2 more names for chickens in our family. My 10 y.o. son was trying to call his new Silkie hen 'Jane', but my 4 y.o. daughter didn't listen very well and when the family came over for Thanksgiving, she introduced all of her cousins to the new chickens. She told...
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    Could my Silkies ever live with my standard flock?

    The pen that my husband built is great. I have to take some photos and post them. The main flock doesn't seem to care about the Silkies being there, and the Silkies are totally entertained by the antics of the rest of the flock. They even have a view of the chicken yard from their window...
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    Chicken Names!

    DH and I don't name the chickens, although with 5 kids interacting with them, names have evolved. We asked the kids to come up with a name for the one rooster we bought to be a rooster, so we have Rotteny the Buff Brahma rooster (one of the boys wanted to call him Rodney, but my daughter...
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    Could my Silkies ever live with my standard flock?

    Thank you all for your responses! I have great hope now! My husband is building a permanent integration pen aka "SilkieLand" as we speak. I still hope that we can eventually let the Silkies out to be with the others, I will wait until they have had adequate time to adjust to each other and...
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