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    what are y'all saving from the wild to deal with coming crisis?

    SO great to hear this grows in our area!! Im just north of Gainesville and am ordering some to get started !! Do u use the non seeding ones or the regular?
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    what are y'all saving from the wild to deal with coming crisis?

    Well as for feeding my flocks(16 chickens,17 turkeys) Im working on free ranging a lot; the turkeys arent really doing it yet. The chickens have defeated the hawks by fighting them (!) so theyre safe-ish, but Im making a larger area safely covered for turkeys (24x75' run with chicken wire on...
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    raising heritage fancy colored turkeys hatched by their mommies

    raising heritage fancy colored turkeys hatched by their mommies
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    Young poult with potential crooked neck?

    Update...#5 is eating on its own this AM!!!! I am beyond happy thankyou to all who pass on their knowledge on this site !
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    Young poult with potential crooked neck?

    oh i miss spelled the meds in my first thing..was holding the baby after a seizure and .....
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    Young poult with potential crooked neck?

    Thankyou...it is very heartbreaking not to know whats wrong and to find so many possibilities ... wow im doing this in the AM..#5 is still alive and got up on the roost by itself tonight so i just got down on my knees and thanked God...dont think i can handle any more death. thankyou for the...
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    Young poult with potential crooked neck?

    Im having kinda the same problem..ish but mine are getting crazy spasms and dying in one day..lost 4 !! So Im doing terramycin plus corid ... Now we went two days with nobody dying but sunday 5 am one started the "stuff" and fell off the roost and spasms and crap..hes still alive today he is...
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    turkeys hatching and raising young

    ( Sorry for the delayed response...Ive got more babies!!!) Well Ive gotten it under control...I think.. the eggs left were sooooo rotten...one exploded and I grabbed the rest and candled n YUKK ...So I.have those first babies with one tom, sold a mean tom, and have only 2 hens now plus I have...
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    mothballs-do they hurt chickens

    Yea dont do it !!! The poison is very deadly ...I lost a valuable full grown turkey hen to a mothball that melted down to the size of a pea !!! The mothballs were in the barn away from the birds at first but migrated over time around the area I guess. The NEVER fixed any insect...
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    mothballs-do they hurt chickens

    Yea but they will eat it and Im feeling that this poison isnt something we should have around delicate birds anyhow .Leaching into the ground?!?! I didnt even THINK about that!! I will never buy them again I am so upset at having poisoned my own turkey children. The second hen survived...I...
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    mothballs-do they hurt chickens

    Old post I kno but I put mothballs around my coop, chickens werent interested cause theyre too big. Problem in a few months they get wet etc and get SMALLER....yea my turkey hen ate one and is dead and now another may follow her.....I kno this bcause we all watch our girls poop and I...
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    turkeys hatching and raising young

    I got 6 turkey babies from a breeder in July...supposedly bronze and from 3 different hatchings so probably unrelated-ish. So fast foward... 2 big bronze toms and three big bronze hens and one smallish bronze hen ALL laying eggs and now sitting on like 20 eggs since March 07- Easter morning I...
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    Newbie to incubating

    Left for a few hours n 1 pip is out other is dead. feel bad shouldnt have left . no sign from 5 unhatched yet but I hav a splay leggd chick from last nites hatch group , I made a hobble type thing and it wont get up gave sugar water just in case cause its stayin in incubator others were standing...
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    Newbie to incubating

    Well , I ended up putting her in alone because she rolled around all the eggs and killed one that rolled onto the pip site !! I now have 14 hatched n 2 pipps , 1 dead, 2 infertile n n 5 IDKs out of 24 . my hatch date is 2 morro so I'm not worried ......yet. Everyone is eating and drinking and...
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