I have my two show turkeys in a separate coop just for them and it's plenty big enough for them its 12x12 so it can't be because of boredom. On of the turkeys tail is gone except like three feathers and I have to show her on the 11 of August what can I do to get them to grow back by then. I...
I've been keeping a good ear out at night. It was in the run outside the coop. Nothing has been back since but I have been getting all them inside and keeping a dog outside but the hen and the rooster still sleep outside.
Huh I just think it's weird that the raccoon wouldn't get into the quail coop or the hutches or millstone hen or the rooster sleeping on the fence. I also had a guinea in the run that is blind in one eye. And she is fine. I'm in north eastern Ohio. Thanks
This is the first time I have ever lost one of my birds in all the years I have been raising birds. So I walked to the coop to let the birds out in to their run (with no top) and there was feathers all over and a dead guinea a few feet away not near the edge of the run. She was all ripped up so...
I know I would have posted a picture but I don't have a phone right now. But it's gone now so maybe it was just hatch leftovers. It was like a very small dark yellow thing with little red vanes through it. But it's gone now.
My third sandpiper chick hatched and it has a yellow thing with vains hanging of it or out of it. The chick looks healthy and peeping and moving around but I don't know if it will be alright. I hope it will be okay. Thanks for any information.
There is no sun shining on her but I don't know if that could still damage her feathers. I gave her some plumage fixer and black oil sunflower seeds mixed with oatmeal in her egg layer crumble.
They are ground nesting birds so like quail they can feed themselves and see as soon as they are born. So I will just give them game bird starter and raise them like quail.