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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    Nice set up. I've had the impacted crop and even did the surgery. But not sure how the pellets would keep them as warm. Will have to study more on this...
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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    It's a great question and one that seems to spark a lot of debate. It's good to be concerned. There isn't a ton of research on how cold affects chickens, but I think it's important to review. What we do have suggests that chickens ARE very susceptible to cold stress, despite conventional...
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    How to keep my Broad Breasted White Warm in very cold climate

    To be clear, in this thread we're not talking about turkeys in general, but MEAT turkeys specifically that are not raised to be hardy. True, there are many people with lots of experience here, and there are a million different ways of doing things. Everyone has to find things that work for...
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    How to keep my Broad Breasted White Warm in very cold climate

    Thanks for your response. As I mentioned above, it's not just AI. Opensanctuary.org and other websites also indicated that broad breasted turkeys and meat birds in general are not as cold tolerant because they are not bred to be around very long. I know for example, that the local animal...
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    How to keep my Broad Breasted White Warm in very cold climate

    I realize this post is over a year old, but it came up in my search for information on broad breasted turkeys and cold. However, it seems to me that this advise may be misguided, despite all the experience here. A google search using the query "how tolerant are broad breasted turkeys to cold"...
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    Crop surgery

    Hi, I realize this is a an old thread, but hoping to clarify. Would Silver Honey work on the wound as well? I don't have manuka honey at home and have been using Curad Germ shield antimicrobial wound gel. But I do have Silver Honey and some Welly's antibiotic ointment. Not sure what is the best...
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    Crop surgery

    Wow, I got quoted $1,600 in upstate NY. Still too much. We asked the vet for a local anesthetic and dissolvable sutures for the inside skin instead, which cost a lot less. He wasn't super thrilled that we might try it at home, but eventually agreed and gave us a prefilled syringe. We just did...
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    Deworming Again...

    Thanks, I have read through that thread. I am not sure I found the answers to all my questions, such as whether you can do both back-to-back. It's a lot of pages, so I may have missed that.
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    Deworming Again...

    Thanks so much. I somehow missed notifications on my post. I was prescribed Aquasol in the past, but always somewhat uncertain as to whether it killed everything off I'd like to. It's good to know I can treat them separately on different days. I usually end up doing that anyway because I have...
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    Deworming Again...

    Hello, I've posted some of these questions to various threads, but wanted to revisit to make sure I'm clear. I don't think I did a thorough job in the spring and seeing worms occasionally so want to make sure to clean the slate before winter. FYI, my chickens have huge runs populated with trees...
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    How To Help My Turkey Lose Weight

    Okay, so my question is, what is an appropriate amount of feed for a meat turkey that needs to lose weight? Oh...I see, free choice. So far, our turkey doesn't seem to know what oyster shell is. I even tried mixing it in her feed once and she managed to avoid it. I don't know that I can take...
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    How To Help My Turkey Lose Weight

    How is your turkey doing? We just inherited a broad breasted turkey from the neighbors and I'm also wondering how to help her lose weight. I did have a Cornish Cross meat bird from different neighbors that was getting huge, but eventually I was able to get a local sanctuary to take her since we...
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    Depluming mites and treating the RUN

    I'm dealing with the same issue so found this thread. We have had our girls separated all summer from the roosters in the hopes they could regrow their feathers in time for winter, but some girls just seem to be getting worse and worse, despite no mating, to the point where it's somewhat...
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    There is a study in sexing eggs by shape.

    That's pretty cool.
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    There is a study in sexing eggs by shape.

    I read the same research and although it was a small sample, I decided to give it a try. I got 5 HENS and 1 roo. But I didn't let my broodies hatch many, so I may have just gotten lucky. The problem is as some have mentioned, that each hens tends to lay a certain shape. I tried to study their...
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