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    Ended 11th Annual EHAL - Contest #3: Cutest Baby Fowl - Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    This is Uno. He is a Royal Palm turkey
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    Royal Palm Breed Standard issues

    I raised wonderful standard Royal Palms with Eastern Wild and 10 years later almost all my Royal Palms have gold or brown feathers. The Eastern wild toms were always the Alpha and so we raise hybrid babies we call Mocha Turkeys that are grey and black or Mocha Brown. Royal palms should not be...
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    What do Turkey Poults Really Need (Feed Wise)?

    My hens are bored out of their mind with Chick Starter, but they love dry cat food! So I put dry Purina cat chow in a blender and grind it to a powder and mix it with the regular starter. The 50/50 mixture is a more interesting orange to brown color and the hens love this mix so they peck it...
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    Baby turkeys question

    I had to put up my turkeys and peafowl before dusk every night, but they get in the habit and now I just have a light on in the barn and they put themselves up. They get locked up every night. Ideally a run is chicken wired 100% coverage and is 2 stories tall. My turkeys would rather spend...
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    Fox help

    no the razor comes on with the motion detector lights. You can buy a screw in socket for one of the lights that has a wall plug built into it and you plug the electric razor in there. I could hear it and see the light come on very late at night almost every night until the bear came and ate...
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    Any ideas or experiences with peafowl housing?

    My final facility in Seattle was used for turkeys but are ideal for peafowl too. Both birds love to roost way up high. Note how tall the barn and the run are for their size and how high the roosts are. Barn was solar powered and had big skylights. Run was covered with a giant umbrella for...
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    Any ideas or experiences with peafowl housing?

    That is the best facility I have ever seen. They do love a 2 or 3 story barn though and here is a little secret: (You can let them OUT)
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    Fox help

    Motion Detector FLOOD lights and the electric razor in the coffee can idea. imagine (2) 100 watt flood lights come on at 3 in the morning and my old electric razor goes to work in a STEEL Folgers coffee can EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzEEEEEEEEe This worked on everybody but the bear. the bear...
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    Bobcat!

    Here is my invention. note the solar powered raido very loud all day without batteries. the head swivels in the slightest wind night or day. I have 3 of these guys and I will have 4 shortly- https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/scarecrow-that-works-for-bobcat-coyote-and-cougar.1237364/
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    Topic of the Week - Getting started, keeping turkeys

    It gets in the dirt where chickens lived. My whole blackhead drama ended when I found water fountains they cannot get their feet in. A standard fountain with just a ring of water is perfect. Never use an open pan of water EVER with babies. But really the biggest issue is social issues I...
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    Topic of the Week - Getting started, keeping turkeys

    everything who got sick and why. when she set day one on the eggs, when they hatched. how many hatched, how many DOA. how many died a few days later. medicines, vets, varmint attacks. who got sold to who and how much. everything
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    Topic of the Week - Getting started, keeping turkeys

    My Advice: 1. Raise Heritage Turkeys 2. Keep records on a computer This is "Mocha Hen" Mocha hen was my first hybrid hen. Her father was a wonderful Eastern Wild turkey and her mother was my best Royal Palm mother hen. When that happens the poults come out a mocha brown so we call them Mocha...
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    Should nesting turkey hens be separated from tom

    I make bale pyramids or stairways along the wall of the barn. The hens lay eggs on the top of the stairway 4 or 5 bales off the ground. The toms stay on the ground and leave the nesting hens alone.
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    Wild hen showed up this afternoon

    A year ago, a wild hen came to us, starving, sick and alone. She thought my barn floor sweepings was the best food she had eaten in a month. She would sleep in the trees and spend all day with my turkeys. After a month, she spent the night in the barn for the first time and has every night...
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    Baby turkeys question

    Turkeys that old can be out all day but locked up at night. THEY need a roost up high. Turkeys like to be off the ground at night. They are sitting ducks on the ground at night and they know it. Train them to sit on a roost pole or 2x4 about 6' off the ground and later 12' off the ground. I...
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