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    What breed is my chick?

    She was the only one that looked like this in the bin. I thought she was a leftover barred rock, but she has a mohawk and her barred coloring is starting to fade out a little bit. Ideas?
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    Gutsy owl

    I'm going to look into that! Thank you for the advice and pictures.
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    Gutsy owl

    We have something extremely similar for our turkeys, minus the electric fencing. How does the fencing work with your door area? We could do that easily with the chain link, chicken wire and netting we already have. I'd love to make a fortress for my ducks like that.
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    Gutsy owl

    I had heard that they will just come back. I was hopeful that there were other options besides what I knew. Dang owls anyways lol. We're going to get them covered rain or shine.
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    Gutsy owl

    Thank you all for the advice! I'll see what I can do. I'd like to relocate the bird in all honesty, but we do live within acres of our timber. So if not this one, I'm sure there will be more. Has anyone heard of any success stories using the sonic predator deter? I've also considered motion...
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    Gutsy owl

    We also use deer fence/netting for the covering for our chickens and turkeys. It is much easier to handle than chicken wire and we can get it in rolls that are 7 feet wide, which helps tons too. I do wrap the bottom couple feet of the fencing with chicken wire too though. If something is going...
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    Gutsy owl

    I hung up wind chimes too. I'm trying everything.
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    Gutsy owl

    I've never seen one during the day before. We just saw it last night by our barn, so there could be more or just one persistent owl. But a few weeks ago it killed the direct neighbor's cat in our barn too. He's just a huge nuisance. I think they're protected in my area, so I wouldn't be able to...
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    Gutsy owl

    I believe it is a horned owl, but it was not any bigger than my large laying chickens. It was not as big as I eas expecting since it killed a 15 pound turkey.
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    Gutsy owl

    Correction**the turkeys are fine in their aviary, but the ducks have an open pen.
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    Gutsy owl

    We had an owl kill one of our turkeys prior to netting off their entire coop, and we ended up making them an aviary. But our ducks cannot fly, so they have much shorter fencing that would be difficult to build the a-frame to put netting over, and the owl won't stop lurking! The turkeys are fine...
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    2 yolk fertile turkey egg

    Well thankfully she/he hatched healthy! We only had one hatch out of the egg, and there was an odd placenta, I am assuming it was the other that may have died? But that is the update! She's fluffy and very lively in the brooder.
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    Duck hatch problem

    I had this problem the first time I hatched welsh harlequins. I've learned that day one starts at the 24 hour marker of being in the incubator, not by the day itself. If that makes sense lol. The start of day 2 is technically one day, so on and so forth. Is there a chance that they just need the...
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    Turkey chicks with distended/detached bellies at hatching

    I wondered about the correct temp as well, but according to the "hatching turkeys for dummies" guidelines/instructions I found, they take the same temp as ducks do as long as the incubator is forced air. (mine is the little giant with forced air fan kit). But something definitely went wrong...
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    Turkey chicks with distended/detached bellies at hatching

    I'm unsure if my tom and hen were of the same clutch or had similar breeding parents. That one is tricky. I got them as adults that had just started laying/mating. I also noticed that there was an excessive amount of blood that hadn't been absorbed in the one, so maybe their little internal...
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