I found my tom sitting on some chicken eggs in the coop. He would not move till I got all the eggs out from under him. He is a Bronze turkey and a guard turkey. Also a pet. His name is Mr Hornswaggle aka Joe Namath lol. Do males do stuff like this? He is a year old now. Time for a Missus?
I'm just starting out but I had two big roosters and one of my cats got dumb and those two roosters stomped my cats butt. That's what he got! He is okay but none of my feral cats go around it anymore. I have not had any predators so far. My one rooster looks like he was a marine lol! He has...
Also I'm concerned for keeping them warm in the winter. What does everyone do for this? This last winter we got down to -6 below which we have never had. Luckily I had no chickens yet. So I need some education on this!
I eventually will build them a bigger coop. I am putting a garden fence around the whole thing. I was told to leave poop and all in there about a year. I add new pine shavings in there once a month and toss it around.
I built an add on for some young ones and it just has a dirt and grass floor. When they are old enough I will let my Rooster sleep in there. The rest of the coop has pine shavings. I'm going to try hemp soon.