Recent content by Patriot1672

I have six Ameraucana/ Silkie roosters that are almost two years old. I’ve tried to sell them, practically giving them away. However, it seems everyone is in the same boat as me when it comes to having too many roosters. I realize now after reading more that I should’ve butchered these birds...

So I had two Narragansett hens at the start of this spring. I thought they had both been laying in the same nesting box as they did last year and the year before. However, I was wrong. I began noticing about a week or so ago that one hen would disappear from around the time I let them out in the...

I had bought turkey eggs online about a year and a half ago, ended up hatching 4(3 Toms/ 1 Hen). The toms seem to move around in a little herd together, always having their tails flared in every direction. However when I walk directly away from them, one particular Tom starts running at me with...

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I had been housing three Americauna hens, 2 Asil hens, and a Silkie rooster in the same stall at night. One of the hens was determined to hatch some chicks out so we let it happen. I’m kinda excited to see what these will look like now. I was also wondering if anyone might have had a similar...

I know it looks a lot like a dog, but dad was pretty positive that it wasn’t. We only have 2 neighbors in a 5 mile radius. Any dog that has ever came up doesn’t easily disappear like this thing did. He was 50 ft away when he took the photo. Began to creep closer while watching for it to run out...

While the photo is very bad, my dad was rather close to it. It wasn’t a dog. He said he thought it was a ground hog at first, but you can pretty much tell from the photo it’s not.

So one of my turkeys got killed two nights ago. I would post the pic of how I found her, thinking that may help people figure out what the predator was, but I’m not sure if I’m allowed. Anyways my dad caught a rather bad photo of something yesterday evening. One of the only characteristics that...

My dad had took this photo this morning at Fort Payne, Al. That’s probably one of the possums that’s got at my birds. It’s doing the lords work.

I ran into this problem last spring! One hen I never found until she successfully hatched out a few and came walking back up, the other two would lay them either in the brooder I spoke of, or right outside it. Thanks everyone for the ideas though.

So I’ve got a sheltered “shed” area that I let my fowl stay in at night. My turkeys are slowly starting to lay eggs and I was trying to think of a good nesting box build to fix up. I was wanting to build it off the ground some, but was unsure of how high they would like it. Last spring they laid...

This is him now. He’s been an excellent guard goose. He’s let me hold him up until my turkey poults, that he watches, have started to strut and gobble more.

So I’ve had game chickens for about 8 years now and have only had to deal with coons, possums, and the occasional stray dog getting some of my birds. In those cases, it was rather easy to determine what got them. They’d usually only get one or two birds when they did attack, but you could see...

So I’ve recently hatched out 5 Narragansett poults. I had ordered them off eBay in hopes of hatching out at least one Tom, as last spring I hatched out five that turned out to be all hens. Two of the hens have been consistently fighting over rights to some of my game chicks that they adopted(...