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    Late Molt

    Hey Everyone! I just had a quick question regarding a couple of my chickens...and our turkey... We started getting down to 23 degrees here at night in South Carolina, and a few of our birds are just NOW molting. Our turkey is nearly half nude and I can easily tell she is cold by the way she...
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    Tired Turkey...

    Not sure if this goes here, but Turkeys are poultry..Hey Everyone! I own chickens and 1 turkey...we started with 6, but all of them ran off with the wild ones except for one female who thinks she's a chicken. I checked on her today and she is moving very slow, has fluffed feathers, wings down...
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    New Mothers

    Hey Everyone! Our 3 hens have hatched 6 chicks in total (so far). With the heat getting to near 100 degrees during the day, should we separate the chicks from the mothers and bring them in with a heat lamp? Our hens and chicks are staying in the coop all day - we have been putting food and...
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    Chicken ate Chicken Twine....

    Hey everyone! One of our smaller, adorable, "bottom of the totem pole" chickens just ate about 5 to 6 inches of chicken twining at once. My wife and I had leftover rotisserie chicken that we just threw out and did not realize there was twining still on it... We chased her (Sophie) around as she...
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    Cracked corn feed

    We give our chickens "Nutrena NatureWise 'All Flock'" feed - its a purple colored bag. We have turkeys with our chickens, as well as a rooster, so you cannot feed them "Layer" feed. We did recently buy some "Producer's Pride (Tractor Supply Brand) Scratch Grains" to throw out in the yard for...
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    Hawk Attack

    Hey BYC! Today I turned 29 years old...and just had my tonsils ripped out this morning in surgery due to recurring strep throat. 10/10 I would not recommend.... Back to chickens... Yesterday, our white Americana/Brahma mix (1 only) chicken was attacked by a hawk as we were sitting inside with...
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    Strep A? (Strep Throat)

    Hey Everyone! I have been fighting strep throat since Christmas Eve. I took one round of antibiotics for 10 days, and 2 weeks later it came back. I just finished my second round of a different antibiotic....I wanted to ask if it's possible to contract Strep A or B from chickens? From tracking in...
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    To Heat or Not to Heat?

    Hey everyone! I live in South Carolina and the temperatures have been dropping into the upper 'teens (F). I was curious if it would be worth adding some supplemental heat inside my coop? I have read where people will put just a normal lightbulb, all the way to fancy split systems on their...
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    Yellow Diarrhea

    I just wanted to update here. The droppings of all our turkeys have gone back to normal. Some are a little "brownish/green" colored, but mostly normal.
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    Yellow Diarrhea

    Hey Everyone! My wife and I acquired 6 heritage turkeys a couple of months ago (Narragansett). These are more of "pets" than anything. Today, I realized that one of the gobblers near me poo'd a yellowish/mustard color which was a little more watery than usual. I walked over to it and noticed a...
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    Dusty Run

    That is a beautiful run!! We may end up covering ours as well like that. We live in South Carolina and when it gets dry it gets DUSTY. The only thing I can really think of is to put down a good layer of straw? This will at least prevent some of the dust from getting kicked up?
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    Can you eat roosters?

    Roosters contain higher levels of naturally occurring arsenic, clostridium botulinum and...Im joking. YES, roosters can be eaten! We had to shrink our flock a little bit by culling 4 roosters and they are just as good as store bought chicken. Maybe A LITTLE more tough, but it does depend on how...
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    Lime Time?

    Hey Everyone! I wanted to ask if anyone uses Lime in their chicken runs/coops? We recently obtained 6 turkeys (I know you aren't supposed to house them together, but these are babies still and our temperatures dropped!), and I wanted to make sure the run is kept as clean as possible. We bought a...
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    Cold Weather and Turkeys

    Update: the turkeys have been moved to the chicken coop and are roosting well! The chickens went in for the night a little suspicious but no fighting whatsoever. I went out to check on them. The turkeys seem to be shivering a little bit...our temperature here is expected to drop to 24 degrees F...
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    Is it time to remove rooster?

    My wife and I started with 5 roosters and 16 hens. The 5 roosters were WAY too many to deal with and we ended up with serious injuries on our hens. We *cough* took away *cough* the roosters we did not want, and kept one sweet boy. He is gentle with the girls, and loves us too. I would recommend...
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