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Thank you for the suggestion! I am glad you took the time to reply. I called around until I found a place here local that sells it, I will run out today and get some tylan powder. Thanks again for your help. Jeanine

Sorry I did not say. We started giving her Terramycin yesterday. I have not checked on her yet. Here in Utah it is snowing today, I am sure she is not happy with that, but she is in an insulated hoop coop. Jeanine

My Turkey hen has foam around her eyes and heavy breathing. She is sitting on a nest of eggs, has been sitting for the full month. But her first batch of eggs got windblown when her house was blown over, so about two weeks in we stuck other fertile eggs under her. She has another two weeks...

Yes, I still have time. I need to work on putting the info together for the Stage 2 Chicken Brooder/ Tractor my husband built. Here is the photo for now. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Cd-ehZCFYaE/S9nXCYDb9FI/AAAAAAAAM_A/RCGX_r24jgs/s1600/Poultry+and+Yard+019.jpg Jeanine

I have not penned mine for years. But mine are all now penned because I am trying to keep the other birds out of their nests while they brood. With two fences between my turkey and my duck, the duck still got past them and possibly ruined all of her eggs. Time will tell. He ate three and...

I am so mad at my duck!!! My jealous duck got in and ate three of the eggs. But worse then that the five remaining eggs are now covered in egg gunk. I don't think they can be cleaned easily at all. Does this mean they will go bad? The egg crust is all over them, so I wonder if the eggs can...

Yes it is! I think everyone was right to leave her wild. It is fun to see what she does. Sometimes she will fly into the turkey's penned area to be with them. Then sometimes she will get tired of that and explore the yard on her own. But she wants to be with the turkeys most of the time...

Sorry for all the short posts... This is what I have found so far. Basic introduction to breeding. http://poultryone.com/articles/breeding.html http://www.articlesbase.com/pets-articles/poultry-and-gamefowl-concepts-to-better-breeding-304574.html Intermediary heredity Vs. Dominant-recessive...

In another thread I got recommended these links. Pretty detailed stuff. Amazing! http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page0.html http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingKipFlexTree.html Jeanine

Ryu, it sounds like to get the basic start you could do it with 6 chickens, 3 hens and 3 roosters. I think I would start with 9 chickens, 6 hens and 3 roosters. Does this sound right? Thank you Jeanine

Lensters - I thought that as a basic precaution you would need to do something like that. Hopefully I can find a solution with less investment in the long run though. Greathorse - thanks for telling me a term used for that. Closed flock. I will do some searches for that term. Thanks Ryu I...

I have the start of two flocks. Standard Buff Orpingtons 8 hens from a feed store (one might be a roo), and 1 rooster from a local farm. 6 Barnevelder chicks, 1 maybe roo, only 3 seem to have the black heads that are desirable, so maybe I have 2 hens and 1 roo with black heads. I have two...

I have buff orps from the feed store. You are right they do have white legs, cool. Yours look allot like mine, but the legs are different. I LOVE my orps. The let the kids carry them around and the rooster is so docile! Great family bird. Jeanine

I have two baby orps that were said to be splash. They are five weeks old now. One looks lavender. I looked at her feather shafts and they start dark and then end light. I guess that means that is a good sign. I have no knowledge about lavenders, but I am wondering if mine is a lavender...

She is sitting her nest. I think there are about eight eggs underneath her. We had the three turkeys penned together. I set up two nesting places and hoped that each bird would pick a separate nest. But the unfertilised brown one started laying in the fertilised blacks nest. I can not tell...