Recent content by galstew1

If you are talking about tail feathers, he probably needs a roost, it will improve them greatly (but will obviously take a while to grow back).

My little brother found a wild pheasant egg the other day, so I put it in with a batch of turkey eggs. I don't know how the hen will react or if the other poults will peck it to death. I'm hoping it is female so it won't get into fights with toms and die or get injured. Do any of you know if...

This is entirley true, but something to help you mark the correct eggs. My hens both lay in the same spot, and i have noticed that one lays eggs that are long, and the other lays eggs that are thick/fat, more shaped like ean egg you would buy at the store for omlets or something. I don't know...

Also, about the pheasant egg, does anyone have a picture of what would come from black spanish and wild pheasant? i hope that the turkeys don't kill it because of how small in comparison it will be, if they start to pick on it, i guess i'll just let her/him go.

If you don't have dog nail clippers (and i hope you have toe nail clippers) and the toe nail clippers don't work, I'd just use a knife, but make sure you don't cut them too short or it will hit his nervous system, resulting in a lot of pain and blood. If you don't have any of those, my next...

So i came home one day, and the turkeys had laid an egg in the dog house (which is was pretty happy about cause the toms keep breaking them, the dog doesn't mind at all). We moved all the eggs in there, and they lay them there ocasionally if we let them out of the coop early enough. Now a new...

I have herritage breed Black Spanish turkeys, which lay and raise the poults themselves. I have two females, and each lay every other day on different days (as in one lays one day, and the next day the other lays). I have one problem. We have three males, and, as i mentioned earlier, two...

I have been raising them for a year. They are not aggressive ever, you can go up to the males and pick them up if you are fast. If they start to roost somewhere that you don't want them to, stop it right away, or they will never break the habit. They are very easy to raise, but if you have...