I have a 1.5 year old Royal Palm tom. He is the only turkey, and he lives with my small flock of chickens. I've had 3 hens die over the last few months. 2 of them looked like they could have be trampled. The most recent one was a few days ago. Another thing i noticed, which confused me, my...
Does anyone in NJ or NEPA have a turkey they are trying to rehome? I just lost one of my 2 turkeys and now my other turkey is going crazy looking for the one that died.
I have about a 2 month old BBB turkey, he is in a 25 x 20 area separate from my chickens. I want to be able to let him free range with the chickens when I let them out, but I'm worried that he may not come back to his area like the chickens go back to their coop at night. Does anyone have any...
So i just had a broody hatch out 6 chicks with one egg remaining, and another broody sitting on 3. All eggs were all placed at the same time. The 3 under my one hen aren't showing any signs of hatching. I have never candled them, so i don't know if there was ever development. I will over the...
I just went home for lunch and 2 are starting! One is just a little hole and the other looks like it should have been out, but the membrane is still together. I can hear that one chirping too.
So today is the 21st day from when i introduced 12 fertile eggs to my broody hens. It was late afternoon that i gave them the eggs. So my question is, is today or tomorrow considered the 21st day? And then at what point do I say that they won't hatch? Can they hatch at a later time or do they...