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    What age can bronze turkeys be sexed by the color of the feathers ?

    That's good advice! I'm new to turkeys myself. This is the first year I got some males as so far all I've had were females from auctions. I've got males that are light and dark in feathers so for a novice it's probably going to be tough to say for certain until you see the other signs too. takes...
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    What age can bronze turkeys be sexed by the color of the feathers ?

    You're not going to be able to sex them by feather colour. You'll have to wait till they are something like 18 weeks to know for certain. I have 6 that are 16 weeks and I just started to hear gobbling. I'm confident 2 are male as they have huge waddles and their snoods are growing. I'm unsure...
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    food and water location

    Yea, it's really hard sometimes to arrange people to help care for your flock when life emergencies happen. It's even harder to find people who are willing to help who actually know something about chickens and the predator/prey circle of life thing! I swear the fox around here know the exact...
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    Young chickens dying fast. Here are the symptoms. Can anyone help?

    dying within 3 days of first symptoms does sound like coccidiosis. The having no muscle mass sounds like they're not eating. ( and living off their muscle tissue ) This might sound silly, but have you been adding vitamin supplements to their water? It's a cheap (cheep? cheep? ) thing to do...
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    food and water location

    If the birds have food without water, you can run into situations like crop bind. If the weather is particularly hot, I'll keep a water feeder hanging inside our coop at night. But most of the time I keep food and water outside as I don't like water soaking my bedding ( I keep my chooks with...
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    Height of roosts?

    Ours are similar. about 3ft high. high enough to still easily clean under without having to crawl around (=
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    edit: just noticed you said you had a coop! might just want to cover the cage the broody one is in. it's good you separated them. Just give it time! good luck (=
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    Batch of chicks first day out

    Well I've seen this site through numerous searches, but never found the time to contribute. Guess I can start with a video of letting my latest batch of Rhode Island Reds out of their pens for the first time. Always a good day when the birds go out. No one wants to leave at first, but...
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