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    60 Layers and 25 Broilers

    Thank you all for your advice and input. What I'll plan on is raising them together for the first 4 weeks, with plenty of feeder, water, and floor space. After which I'll separate them. The broilers will be moved outside to chicken tractors. And the layers will eventually replace our old layers.
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    60 Layers and 25 Broilers

    I would only be raising the meat chickens and layer chickens together for 4 weeks. At that point they would be separated; the meat chickens would get moved outside. We plan on butchering the meat chickens between 8-10 weeks depending on our schedule and their size. I'm not sure the exact size...
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    60 Layers and 25 Broilers

    I have one side of my chicken house set aside for raising chicks. This will be my 7th batch of chickens to raise. Some meat and some layers but never together. This batch is Cornish Cross and Isa Browns. Yes, we are getting day old chicks. I live in northern Indiana. I can adjust the size...
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    60 Layers and 25 Broilers

    Next month we are getting 60 laying hens and 25 meat chickens. Is it okay to raise them together for the first four weeks? Does anyone have experience with this?
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    Red tailed hawks

    I agree. I've had one chicken killed by a hawk when is was half grown, but they don't bother my chickens when their full grown and with roosters.
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    Turkey as a Pet

    Where we got our turkeys they were raised with chickens. When we brought them home they didn't feel at home until I put two Buff Orpington hens in. Now there is only one hen left, but they get along well. My turkeys are a wild breed too.
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    Turkey Mama Abandoned Nest, Help!

    Update: We got to the eggs to late. When we opened them up one was rotten and the other three where a few days from hatching. Thank you again for your suggestion I will learn from this whole experience.
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    Turkey Mama Abandoned Nest, Help!

    Thank you I'll see what I can do.
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    Turkey Mama Abandoned Nest, Help!

    Any experienced advice please. My turkey mama was sitting on eight eggs. She hatched four and left the nest with the living chicks, because the chicks couldn't get back into the nest. I put up a ladder walk-up board for the chicks, but the they aren't using it. I'm pretty sure the four unhatched...
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    Chicks aren't roosting

    I'm almost thinking that your roost is too big around for the chickens to get a good hold. Correct me if I'm wrong. My chickens roost on 1 1/2 inch, octagon shaped, wooden bars. What I've done to get them started roosting when their young is to put a small low to the ground roost in their...
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