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I have a new chick (turkey actually) about a week old. It seems very uncomfortable, pecking at its hind end, which looks very red & sore. It looks almost like its anus area is poking out ... The best way I can describe it. It's not pasty butt bc there is nothing stuck to it. I tried...

Thank you Markb! I'm keeping them with Mama chicken separate from the rest of the group for now. 8 weeks sounds like a good point to let them explore a bit more with less danger. At that point they'll be free ranging with the rest and will know where the coop is for food so I'll worry less...

We found an abandoned turkey nest after mowing. I gave the eggs to my broody Silkie and 2 of 5 hatched. I separated the "mom" and chicks and for now they are in a large dog crate inside the chicken coop. I'm afraid to let them out! My chickens free range during the day, so I'm afraid if I let...

So I found an abandoned turkey nest after we mowed a spot in the field. I've always wanted turkeys, so i thought for the fun of it I would give my broody Silkie hen the eggs and see what happened. Well, today is 25 days later and one of the eggs is hatching! I heard peeps when I went in to...

I'm completely to all this, so I just have my own current personal experience to tell you. I have a broody silkie hen, and I found an abandoned clutch of turkey eggs where we mowed. The hen wouldn't come back after a couple days, so I thought I would conduct my own "turkey experiment"! I put...

I'm asking for some creative ideas here! I have three emu chicks that are about 2 months old. In the beginning they stayed in a stall in the barn and I walked them out to the corral every morning. Well that became a nightmare! Sometimes it took me 45 minutes to get them to the corral...

Thanks everyone for your answers. I think yesterday I was just in a panic because I wasn't quite sure what to do about these emus. You think you've researched until all your questions are answered, until here you are sitting with 3 baby emus and nothing is predictable! I moved them into the...

Hello! I just got 3 emu chicks that are 3-4 weeks old. I am trying to plan ahead for where i will keep them when they are bigger. I would LOVE to keep them in the fenced area shared with my goats, which is a 6 strand poly rope electric fence about 6 feet tall. If it will keep my Houdini...

Hello! We just picked up 3 emu chicks today. One DNA tested male and two unknowns. We will have those 2 tested soon. They are approximately 3-4 weeks old. I have done research, but I am confused about some things. I can't get them to eat or drink. We just got them home a couple hours...